Support for Learning

Talk to your child about what they are doing at school; taking an interest can help to prevent problems building up and allow you to inform the school of any concerns that might need addressing. 

Supporting your child’s literacy:

• Encouragement: be positive and look to praise hard work. Try to avoid pointing out every error or mistake
• Purpose: ask what they are doing and why. Help them to plan using bullet points to organise thoughts and suggest extra detail.
• Presentation: encourage them to take pride in the presentation of their work. The most brilliant essay is worthless if nobody can read it.
• Accuracy: try to encourage grammatical accuracy and correct punctuation. Deal with this progressively starting with full stops, capitals and spellings then moving on to speech marks, apostrophes and commas. Encourage the correct use of sentences and paragraphs.
• Drafting: longer pieces of writing such as essays and stories can be improved with successful drafting and structure which can be supported at home. 

Supporting your child’s numeracy:

• Practice real life numeracy skills as often as possible – adding up total prices, working out percentage reductions, working out time taken, doing tables from memory.
• Workings: these should always be shown before the answer.
• Encourage: be as positive as possible. 

ClassCharts

•  We use an app called ‘ClassCharts’ to allow students and parents to access homework set to see any positive ERA points or negative behaviour points that have been earned.
• Students will come to Bohunt with a varying experience of homework. As different groups do different subjects on different days there is no set homework timetable. As a rule of thumb the core subjects of English, Maths and Science are likely to set homework weekly for up to 45 minutes whilst other subjects would set shorter tasks weekly or a longer piece fortnightly.  
• Homework will be set for each class electronically using ‘ClassCharts’ which can be accessed in and out of school.  
• Homework is given for a variety of purposes to reinforce, check or confirm learning, to prepare for the lesson content or assessments, to develop habits of independent learning and to develop research skills in order to extend learning.

Tips on Homework: 

• Agree a routine with your child from the beginning. The ability to study independently becomes an increasingly important part of the curriculum as your child goes through school, so help to set positive values and a workable routine.
• A good time for homework is after a short break when your child returns home. This leaves the rest of the evening free and prevents homework becoming a point of stress or conflict.
• Try to ensure your child does their homework on the night it is set, when it is fresh in their memory and if necessary they can ask for help. This also prevents a buildup of deadlines and work.
• Recognise the challenges of working unsupervised. Help your child to structure their time usefully in a quiet place where use of electronic devices can be monitored.
• Be around to give support where needed, but don’t establish a pattern of always doing homework with them. This is unsustainable and they won’t learn to work independently.
• Take an interest in the marks and comments on your child’s work. Celebrate success and give a clear message that homework is important and valuable. Insist on your agreed routines – this may save you time and energy in the long run.

An All-Through School: 

We are an all-through school that benefits from working collaboratively across educational phases, taking the best practice from each phase and using it to improve impact and provision across the school. An all-through school offers the best of both worlds. Our older students will benefit from experiences of leadership and mentoring the students in earlier educational phases whilst our younger students will benefit from excellent role models and state-of-the-art, purpose-built specialist facilities. 

Our primary phase is planned to open to reception aged students in September 2023. More information about this offer will follow soon.