📚 The Importance of Homework
A guide for parents to support learning at home
🧠 Why Homelearning Matters
✔ Reinforces Learning
📎 Homework helps your child practise and remember what they’ve learned in class.
✔ Builds Good Habits
🕒 it teaches time management, responsibility, and organisation.
✔ Encourages Independence
🚀 Students grow more confident when they solve problems on their own.
✔ Connects Parents to Learning
👪 Homework gives insight into classroom learning and sparks school-related conversations.
✔ Strengthens School-Home Links
📬 When parents value homework, children do too.
👏 How You Can Help at Home
1. Create a routine
🕰️ Set a regular time and quiet space for homework.
2. Be encouraging
🌟 Praise effort, not just results.
3. Support—not solve
🧩 Guide your child without doing the work for them.
4. Stay in touch
📧 Let the teacher know if your child is struggling.
🎓 Remember: Homelearning should be a positive part of the day—not a battle. Your support helps build lifelong learners and your encouragement really does make a big difference back in the classroom! 🌟
Home Learning – Year 1 – 4
In the Years 1 – 4, homework is in the form of reading a book sent home, learning basic words and or maths basic facts. Home readers may be sent home many times with the whole book taking a few days to complete the guided reading programme in the classroom. Children may also choose books from their best fit box. Re-reading the same books over again and again is encouraged and assists with children developing reading confidence and reading fluency. Please don’t be alarmed when the same book comes home it is an important part of our reading programme.
Home Learning – Year 5 – 8
In Years 5 – 8 homework could be essential learning tasks (spelling, home reading, maths etc), completion of unfinished work, research into new learning occurring in the classroom, co-creating information in online forums, discussion of current events or mathematics /maintenance work using mathletics. At this level students need to continue to develop their accuracy, fluency and independence in reading and in using texts to support their learning. It is expected that if children do not bring a school text home that they can select another to read at home. It would be great if all students had a novel or other suitable material to read for a sustained period of time. Classes visit the school library each week so they have regular opportunities to issue new books.
Many children have many after school activities already and we strongly support children following their passions and interests outside of school. We are also great encouragers of children playing, pretend playing, role playing and having adventures outside on the farm or in their backyard.