Homework Support

The New Zealand Curriculum (Te Mataiaho) is a wonderful enriching curriculum which covers english, maths, science, arts, learning languages, health & pe, social science and technology.  The Ministry of Education ask schools to report on reading, writing and mathematics, however it is important to note that we aim to cover all areas of the curriculum each year.  To support your child the following ideas may help.

Reading

Phase 1 (year 1 to 3) learners are learning to read

Phase 2 and 3 (year 4 to 8) learners are reading to learn.

As a school we encourage whanau to check out the classroom site which covers the learning that your child is doing in class.  Senior students (phase 2 and 3) which is year 4 to 8 have classroom sites which cover all curriculum areas and you are able to see what they are doing in class.

Below we also have a range of online sites that you can access which may support your child.

We ask that your child does their reading each day.  This can be a book provided by the teacher (phase 1) which is year 1-3 students.  There are books which can be accessed via a password with the LLLL site.  Books have been allocated to each child.

You are also encouraged to enrich their literacy experience by talking to them about books and experiences.  You can read to them and discuss the author's purpose, what they think might happen next etc.

Literature is a range of text types eg.  poetry, recipe, newspaper item, novel, non-fiction, research etc.

As your child moves through the school they will be accessing a wider range of text types.  It has been scientifically researched that novels are important to build on comprehension, fluency, understanding of the deeper meaning of text and author's purpose for phase 2 and 3 learners (year 4 to 8).

Writing

Writing support can be creating any piece of text that you have either read or have seen.  Building on a range of deeper vocabulary, using a range of punctuation and being able to write fluently is an important part of learning.

Maths

Any support that you can provide in the way of increasing fluency of essential facts is helpful.  Students work through the curriculum to enable them to read, write and identify, notice and be inquisitive problem solvers.  Maths is a fun way to engage your child.

Card games

Board games

Competitions of speed, fluency and solving number problems

Giving change from money transactions and banking for financial literacy

Estimating, guessing, thinking about "I wonder if..." problems

Below are some helpful sites.