Home learning changes on the Winshill Village website
An example of home learning posts on a class page
To our parents and carers:
Home Learning posts for next week are on our website, and you may notice that we’ve made a few changes to how they are presented. We hope that these changes will make the activities easier to explore and to keep track of during the week.
For parents and carers of children in Year 1 to Year 6, you’ll see that there will now be three home learning posts for each week:
an English post
a Maths post
a Topic post (Science, History, Geography, RE, PSHE etc.)
Each post is clearly titled with the year group and the week it applies to, and you’ll find them listed near the top of your child’s class page.
Within each post, you’ll find the activities for the week, embedded video clips, and links to any other websites or PDF documents that are required. Often, the activities will be listed day by day, matching the sequence of learning that is happening for classmates still learning in school.
Our teachers have been working really hard to record engaging videos of themselves introducing topics and reading stories, so please be sure to check those out and use them with your children! We hope they love learning from their teacher in this way.
Because learning is structured differently for our children in Nursery and Reception, home learning posts for children in those groups will be shared differently, sometimes as daily posts, sometimes as posts that span several days or a week. You’ll still find these posts near the top of their class page.
Please try to email photos of examples of your child’s work to their class teacher each week. You can find their email address on their class page, or on the ‘School Staff’ page. Teachers may then respond with feedback, or share photos into their Class Learning Gallery. There is a large orange button leading to the class gallery at the top of each class page. For example, here is the first Year 5 Learning Gallery post - https://www.winshillvillage.org.uk/blogs/year-5-learning-gallery-1. Huge thanks to parents who have already emailed in with examples of home learning!
If you have any questions or concerns about home learning, please email your child’s class teacher in the first instance, or call the school office and leave a message.
We hope that these changes make it as easy as possible to support home learning, but we completely understand that it will be imperfect, and that everyone’s home and family situation is different. Everything, and anything, you do to support your child’s learning is valuable, and greatly appreciated.
Take care, stay safe, and thank you for your support ❤️
