At Maldon Court Preparatory School our children are introduced to homework by bringing reading home and we hope that parents will want to share books with their children and help with new words etc.

The parents of our Reception children will be invited to a meeting early in the autumn term in order to discuss with us the different ways of helping their child’s reading. The children will be asked to learn spellings from Year 1 onwards and multiplication tables from Year 2.

When appropriate children from Year 2 onwards may be given other mathematics activities.

In Years 3 and 4 children will be given tasks related to the topic being studied in school. These will be accompanied by clear instructions from their class teacher and take place when appropriate, points in the unit of work.

In Years 5 and 6 the amount of homework increases. In addition to tables, spellings and reading, children will be given topic-related tasks and in Year 6 a longer project based on home study.

A realistic attitude is adopted to homework, which is used to reinforce work done at school. Early years children can expect to have fifteen minutes per night. This increases gradually until Year 6 when children may need to work for up to 40 minutes.

The entry of children into the school at reception year is a very important stage in their careers.

We encourage children to email homework into their teacher.