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Free Year 4 Maths Worksheets And Homework – Download, Print, Or View Online

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Here you’ll find all our free Year 4 maths worksheets and Year 4 maths tests, many of which are suitable for homework as well as classroom teaching.

You can use these resources and workbooks as you like; most of the KS2 maths worksheets come in pdf format and all of them are printable if you want to give children something physical to work with. But they can also be downloaded and kept, or viewed online, if you prefer to keep things electronic. 

To supplement these we also have a range of maths activities , lesson plans and powerpoints for classroom teaching which are available from our White Rose maths  page.

Many of these worksheets and maths tests are aimed at helping children improve their number work – we have mental maths practice work, place value worksheets , addition and subtraction worksheets , multiplication & division worksheets etc.

All our maths worksheets and tests come with answer sheets too, including advice from the National Curriculum (about the range of answers that are acceptable, for example), where needed.

If you’re a  parent  looking for more advice, try our  home learning  hub full of  home learning packs , tips and teaching ideas for  Year 4 Maths  at home and  maths homework .

If you’re a  teacher or school leader  who is interested in improving maths attainment in your school or classroom, then this whole website is for you. Third Space Learning is dedicated to improving outcomes in maths with our  online tutoring  programme of  maths interventions , together with  maths resources  and CPD. You’re welcome to link to these free resources from your own website like thousands of other schools do.

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Year 4 Maths Worksheets for fluency, reasoning, and problem solving

Year 4 times tables worksheets, year 4 place value worksheets, year 4 addition and subtraction worksheets , year 4 multiplication and division worksheets , year 4 decimals worksheets , year 4 measurement worksheets, year 4 fractions worksheets, year 4 statistics worksheets, year 4 maths tests: all topics, year 4 maths worksheets to improve fluency, mental maths and arithmetic skills: fluent in five.

Fluent in Five worksheets provide a series of questions designed to take no more than 5-10 minutes and to help children develop their written and mental maths skills. Developing maths fluency in a key skill for children, especially in Year 4 with the newly-introduced times tables check to work towards. 

Download  Fluent in Five Arithmetic Pack (Year 4) Weeks 1-6

Year 4 Maths Worksheets for improving reasoning and problem solving skills: Rapid Reasoning

The Rapid Reasoning resource was created to fulfil the greater emphasis that a maths mastery approach gives to children’s ability to reason well. ‘Explaining your reasoning’ is a key part of maths lessons in Key Stage 2, and these free worksheets (six weeks’ worth in total) help children improve their reasoning skills. Each worksheet comes with around three questions based on Year 4 maths topics, example answers, and even step-by-step explanations to help pupils break down how to get to an answer. 

Download  Rapid Reasoning (Year 4) Weeks 1-6

Year 4 Maths Test: Times Tables

Knowing their multiplication tables is one of the key maths skills every child should have by the time they leave primary school, and Year 4 children will have this skill tested through the new multiplication tables check . 

These times tables practice tests provide a quick and clear way to help children practise, and spot any gaps in their knowledge. No more worries about getting caught out on the 7x table!

Download the Times Tables Packs

Year 4 Maths Worksheets for times tables: Tarsia Puzzles Mixed Times Tables Pack

These times tables worksheets are a fun way to practise times tables facts and related division facts independently and develop mental arithmetic skills.  

Download the Tarsia Puzzles Mixed Times Tables Pack

Year 4 Maths Worksheets for place value: All Kinds of Word Problems

This worksheet contains ten increasingly difficult questions about number and place value. A great choice whether you want to help a child revise this topic, or give a high achiever something more challenging to do as homework!

Download  All Kinds of Word Problems on Number and Place Value (Year 4)

Year 4 Maths Worksheets for addition and subtraction: Let’s Practise Using the Bar Model

These worksheets focus on word problems involving addition and subtraction of up to 4-digit numbers. It is important for children to experience a range of question types, especially in a topic where they may feel more confident. 

Download Year 4 addition and subtraction worksheets: Let’s Practise Using the Bar Model

Year 4 Maths Worksheets for addition and subtraction: Worked Examples

While children will have looked at formal column addition and subtraction, there are many common mistakes that even the most experienced amongst them can make. This worksheet highlights the common errors when using formal written methods, estimating and identifying related facts for addition and subtraction calculations. 

Download Year 4 Worked Examples Addition and Subtraction

Year 4 Maths Worksheets for addition and subtraction: Maths Code Crackers

Sometimes a simple set of fluency questions can be engaging. This worksheet focuses on calculations including up to 4-digit numbers add 4-digit numbers and up to 4-digit numbers subtract 4-digit numbers, all with the aim of finding answers and the punchline to a halloween themed joke. 

Download Year 4 Code Crackers: Addition and Subtraction

Year 4 Maths Worksheets for addition and subtraction: All Kinds of Word Problems 

These worksheets provide children with an opportunity to solve a wide range of addition and subtraction word problems. The problems range from missing digits to adding money and measures.

Year 4 Maths Worksheets for multiplication: All Kinds of Word Problems 

In Year 4, children are not only expected to know their times tables facts up to 12 x 12, they also need to know how to multiply 3-digit numbers by a 1-digit number. This workbook covers problems involving factors, missing numbers, multiplying 3-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers as well as times table facts. 

Download All Kinds of Word Problems: Multiplication 

Year 4 Maths Worksheets for multiplication: Let’s Practise Using the Bar Model

These worksheets include a range of word problems that can be solved using bar models. The questions cover times tables up to 12 x 12 as well as 2-digit numbers multiplied by 1-digit numbers. 

Download Year 4 Let’s Practise Using the Bar Model Multiplication Worksheets

Year 4 Maths Worksheets for division: Short and Long Division Worksheets

Long division is one of the most difficult parts of the primary maths curriculum, and learning long division requires a good understanding of short division to start with. While a Year 4 child won’t have learnt long division yet, these worksheets include short division questions at the beginning, helping children sharpen their division skills in preparation for the next step.

Download our Free Year 4 Division Worksheets

Year 4 Maths Worksheets for multiplication and division: Code Crackers

A fun way for children to get some more practise in: every question’s answer is part of the punchline of a joke. Solve them all and you solve the joke! The questions themselves cover all of the new things pupils have learned about the topic, so it’s easy to identify where any gaps are. 

Download  Maths Code Crackers Year 4: Multiplication and Division

Year 4 Maths Worksheets for multiplication and division: Worked Examples 

Children love to be the teacher. This worksheet gives children an opportunity to check work that has already been completed, explain any errors and develop reasoning skills. The worksheet covers a range of multiplication and division topics, including multiplying three 1-digit numbers together and dividing a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number.

Download Year 4 Worked Examples Multiplication and Division 

Year 4 Maths Worksheets on decimals: Independent Recap

This small collection of four worksheets covers tenths, hundredths, and dividing 1- and 2-digit numbers by 10 and 100 – all topics covered in Year 4 maths.

As independent working activities, they are specifically designed to be completed by children even if they can’t get access to online tools, or parent support.

Download the Year 4 Decimals Independent Recap Worksheets

Year 4 Maths Worksheets on decimals: Worked Examples 

Decimals are first formally introduced to children in Year 4. This worksheet focuses on a range of topics including understanding the value of the digits in a decimal number, dividing by 10 and converting between fractions and decimals. As decimals is a new topic to Year 4, there are several common errors pupils could make and this worksheet aims to address these misconceptions. 

Download Year 4 Worked Examples Decimals

Year 4 Maths Worksheets on decimals: Maths Code Crackers Year 4 Decimals

This worksheet focuses on the value decimals, ordering decimals and adding decimals to make a whole in a fun way. Children need to answer the questions to solve the answer to a topical joke. 

Download Maths Code Crackers Year 4 Decimals

Year 4 Maths Worksheets on area: Code Crackers

Area is a new and more complicated Year 4 topic, moving away from the number facts and arithmetic-based work children will have been used to from previous years. Our Code Crackers worksheet on area gives them the chance to test their understanding of this more complex topic, and have fun at the same time. Answers for all questions are included with the pack. 

Download  Maths Code Crackers Year 4: Area

Year 4 Maths Worksheets on area: Year 4 Worked Examples Area

When covering the topic of area, it is important that children understand not only what area is but what a 2-D shape is. This worksheet covers the required content for this year group while also addressing common misconceptions that can form when the new topic of area is introduced. Children will focus on counting the squares to calculate areas as well as compare areas while they check and explain incorrect answers. 

Download Year 4 Worked Examples Area

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Year 4 maths worksheets for properties of shape: independent recap.

Children have been learning about shapes since Year 1, but that does not mean the content is easy to understand. These worksheets cover identifying angles (including the names of angles and measurements in degrees), comparing and ordering angles as well as properties of 2d shapes, classifying triangles and quadrilaterals and identifying lines of symmetry  and completing symmetrical figures. 

Download Year 4 properties of shapes worksheets: Independent Recap  

Year 4 Maths Worksheets for properties of shape: Code Crackers

This properties of shape worksheet focuses on recapping all the learning from this block of work. With a range of retrieval questions to answer, children need to answer the questions correctly to find the answer to a Wimbledon related joke. 

Download Year 4 properties of shape worksheets: Code Crackers

Year 4 Maths Worksheets for properties of shape: Worked Examples

There are several different aspects of properties of shape that children need to know in Year 4. This worksheet recaps some of the key language in the topic (for example, obtuse angle, rhombus) as well as some key concepts (for example, classification of triangles, lines of symmetry), while including opportunities to develop reasoning skills. 

Download Year 4 Properties of Shapes Worksheets: Worked Examples

Year 4 Maths Worksheets for fractions: Code Crackers

Finding fractions of numbers is a maths skill that becomes more and more important the later a child gets in their maths learning, but the basics are covered in Key Stage 2. This fractions for kids worksheet helps children become better at solving these types of problems without making it seem (too much) like work. 

Download  Maths Code Crackers Year 4: Fractions

Year 4 Maths Worksheets for fractions: Independent recap 

These worksheets recap adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator and calculating fractions of quantities. Children will have been introduced to both of these topics in Year 3, however it is important that they have a strong understanding of the concepts before moving on to more complex fraction work. These worksheets encourage completely independent work. 

Download Year 4 Fractions Independent Recap

Year 4 Maths Worksheets for fractions: Year 4 Worked Examples

The topic of ‘fractions’ is very broad. In this worksheet, the focus is on 5 different areas of the fractions block that children in Year 4 often find confusing (adding three or more fractions, finding a fraction of an amount, subtracting from a whole, equivalent fractions and counting in fractions). 

Download Year 4 Worked Examples Fractions

Year 4 Maths Worksheets for statistics: Worked Examples

In Year 4, children are expected to be able to read and interpret a range of graphs and tables. This worksheet focuses on reading a table, bar chart and line graph. Children should be familiar with tables and bar charts but will have been introduced to line graphs for the first time in Year 4.  

Download Year 4 Maths Worksheets for statistics: Worked Examples

Year 4 Maths Worksheets for statistics: Independent Recap

These worksheets focus on answering questions about bar charts, tables and line graphs. As line graphs are new to Year 4, one of the worksheets in this pack encourages children to use data to draw their own line graphs. 

Download Year 4 Maths Worksheets for statistics: Independent Recap

Year 4 Maths Worksheets for statistics: Code Crackers

This worksheet encourages children to read and interpret a range of graphs to answer retrieval, comparison and sum questions about a range of different graphs and tables. 

Download Year 4 Maths Worksheets for statistics: Code Crackers

A great way to get an overall idea of a Year 4 child’s maths learning – two tests (one arithmetic, one reasoning) of about an hour each, with answer sheets included. Please remember that children may not have covered every topic on this test, so they may not be able to answer some questions.

Download our free Year 4 Assessment Pack

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• Year 3 Maths Curriculum Toolkit for 7 & 8 Year Olds
• Year 3 Maths Worksheets
• Year 5 Maths Curriculum Toolkit for 9 & 10 Year Olds
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In line with the national curriculum, each sheet covers arithmetic, reasoning, vocabulary building and, spelling punctuation and grammar skills. These handy printable are perfect to use at home or in school. From fractions to angles,  addition to subtraction, multiplication to the division, rounding numbers to fraction we have covered all the topics your children will do in school.

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Interesting ideas for primary homework

• Author: Kevin Harcombe
• Main Subject: CPD
• Subject: Leadership
• Date Posted: 12 January 2011

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Evenings and weekends are precious to us all. So don't waste children's time, and your own, by setting dull homework...

Homework – a compound word that resonates down the chalk dust swirling corridors of all our school days. Home: warmth, security, a place to relax. Work: well, fill this one in yourself, why don’t you?

The point is, the two things don’t often sit well together and I have always been ambivalent about the value of homework for children under 11. An Ofsted inspector once told me that they’d stopped being critical of schools about parental attitudes to homework, because invariably half of parents thought the school set too little and the other half set too much, so schools couldn’t win (no change there, then).

Some parents think homework must be a ‘good thing’, without being quite sure why. They may have read it in the Daily Mail, or they may be of the “I had to do it and it never did me any harm” school of thought, in which case what’s wrong with flogging and outside lavatories?

These may well be the same parents who can remember how to do quadratic equations; unlike me whose secondary school child regularly weeps into her calculator at half nine of a Tuesday evening whilst bewailing the fact her parent is a mathematical imbecile. (Watch out, I riposte, it’s genetic.)

When homework has a positive impact

The nub of the matter is that homework is only useful when meaningful, related to and supporting class based work, well matched to the child, time limited and marked with top notch feedback from the teacher. Sadly, this is only the case in a minority of cases. Having got those longwinded caveats off my chest, here are some suggestions where homework can be manageable (for both the setter and the doer) and have a positive impact.

6 creative homework tasks

Interview a family member about their school days, work, play, food, etc. This develops questioning skills and can be recorded rather than written. Digital dictaphones are available for 20 quid and are within the reach of most schools. Results can be shared and presented in any way from a video presentation to a pie chart.

2. Pack a suitcase

Following some input on WWII and the mass evacuation of the young, set the children the task of making their own evacuation suitcase. (Some children will literally make one out of cardboard, but it’s the contents that are the key). What five things would they take with them and why? They can write this, or simply talk through their suitcase with the rest of the class. It’s the thinking behind this task that is the real learning. The speaking/ listening/writing is, as so often, a secondary benefit.

3. Flour babies

Read Anne Fine’s tremendous book of the same name, then provide the children with their very own flour baby (basically a 1 kilo bag of flour they have to look after as if it’s a baby). Children will draw faces on theirs, dress it, even push it to school in a toy buggy. Again, the real learning is in the thinking and empathy the activity generates.

4. Parent portraits

Sketch a parent in Henry Moore / Lucian Freud style, i.e. unflatteringly. It’s great fun, gives the parents a break from the child’s “I don’t know what to draw” cry and is a chance to look at more recent British artists.

5. Set up a museum

Our Y3 and Y4 children were recently given the task of designing their own Egyptian artefact at home. Resourcefulness from children – irrespective of family background – was stunning. We received several hieroglyphic scrolls (rolled up around cotton reels, rubbed with a tea bag to give the ageing effect) a multiplicity of pyramids (made from card, plasticine, lego), sarcophaguses, jewellery and lots of mummified Barbies and Kens. The class was turned into a museum, with carefully written exhibit cards and children curators on hand to explain the historical background to why the Egyptians valued these things, and opened up to parents and other classes on a Friday afternoon.

6. Serve breakfast

Sanctions for not having done homework don’t work, rewards do. Compare “If you don’t hand in homework you’ll miss break / lunch / PE / life.” With ” If you do hand it in regularly you’ll be invited to the end of half term Big Breakfast in the hall where your teacher will serve you toast, cereal, yoghurts, juice, etc.” Simple really, and a special occasion to look forward to at the end of half term.

Level the playing field

Set up a homework club…

For those children who don’t have access to books, internet, paper, pencils, scissors, glue at home, you could start a homework club and give those attending use of the school’s ICT facilities. For those familes who are ‘book poor’ you need to make sure your own library is well provided for. Last Christmas I asked assembly, “How many of you got some sort of a book as a Christmas present?” Less than half the hands went up. In the People’s Republic of Harcombe, when I get round to setting it up, the giving of books as presents would be enforced by presidential decree.

Throw the book at them

When parents ask about homework for their child I always respond that a) the best thing for a child to do of an evening is have some quality time with family and friends, sit down for a meal together, play a sport, learn a musical instrument or sing and not feel badgered into working all the hours God sends, and b) reading is just about the best homework anyone, adult or child, can do.

Parents don’t count reading as homework, see, and we need to educate them (this parent thinks homework is when you have indentations in your finger from holding the pen/tapping the keyboard for three hours, because writing is homework).

Time spent reading is seldom wasted and is either entertaining, thought provoking or informative or – just like this article, hopefully – all three. If you like you can structure what the children read by recommending lists (The Redlands Ten – ten books to read before you’re 10) to add a little challenge to the task. Local libraries might be able to help by ordering multiple copies of books for those parents that can’t/won’t buy them. Children get a certificate (and a book!) when they complete the ten.

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Creative Homework Ideas

How can you create homework assignments that build on the day’s lessons and encourage creative, student-led learning? It’s a challenge for most teachers, especially as motivating pupils to complete homework can add a whole extra layer to your lesson plans. But it’s essential to bridge the gap between teacher and student learning –  the skills gained through independent study reinforces knowledge from your class, as well as a host of other benefits:

• Extended learning time – outside of the constraints of the school day, students are free to learn at their own pace and in their own environment.
• Independent learning – vital skills for exam preparation and higher education
• Teaches students to be resourceful and to overcome challenges independently.
• Gives students the freedom to be creative in their learning, gain valuable problem-solving skills and confidence in their own abilities.

Tips For Setting Creative Homework

• Plan independent learning both in and out of the classroom – you can monitor students effectiveness and address issues that may arise in the classroom before they become problematic for pupils at home.
• Don’t leave homework assignment to the end of the lesson, rushing through the task might leave some students confused which inevitably leads to a lower homework completion rate. Write plenty of time for explaining homework assignments into your lesson planning – read our Beginner’s Guide To Lesson Planning here
• Homework should to not too easy nor not too hard, offering pupils a challenge that reinforced the topics learnt during the day
• Give room for creative expression – allowing students to add their own diagrams, decorations or chose their own project topics from a selection. 
• Try using peer or self-assessment to mark homework – a double whammy of reducing your workload and allowing pupils to take control of their own learning.
• Include timings and explicit steps for completing more complicated assignments, especially for pupils that you anticipate might struggle. Comprehension of the task is the biggest hurdle in getting pupils to work on an independent basis.
• Self-driven projects, posters, creative tasks and research are more exciting than standard comprehension tasks and might encourage pupils that find sitting and writing dull or hard to complete the homework set – give students the freedom to learn and be creative in their home study.
• Provide specific instructions and internet safety reminders for research-led assignments. It’s very easy for children to find research overwhelming with a vast amount of information available online. Provide suggested websites and links in your homework to keep things on track!
• Don’t introduce a new topic for homework – keep it to topics that you’ve already covered in class
• Taking note of the subjects that excite and engage your class and set homework accordingly – try keeping dryer topics and  for the classroom so that you can monitor engagement
• Mark work promptly – essential to keep students motivated to complete work in their own time!
• Offering students the opportunity to select the homework that they would like to do from a selection guarantees a higher rate of completion. We’ve seen some teachers create grids or sheets of homework assignments for the pupils to select, or offer baskets of activities for younger children to take home and complete with an adult.

Creative Homework Ideas For All Ages

Coming up with innovative ways for students to reinforce their knowledge at home can be difficult – many of these ideas would be suitable for lots of subjects with a little tweaking!

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20+ creative alternative homework ideas for teachers

When giving homework, it must always be based on learning goals your students have to reach, just like in your lessons. But it’s sad to see that lots of teachers are using homework as extra lesson time. Of course, as a teacher, you’re on a clock. But that doesn’t mean your students have to suffer from it and keep working on those boring textbooks and worksheets at home.

Consider goals like attitudes, real-life experiences, and practice, physical exercise, social encounters, creative solutions, and philanthropy as crucial as your lesson goals. These are things students don’t just pick up in your classroom. These are things they pick up in life.

In this blog post, I’ll give you some innovative homework ideas that will engage your students more. These alternatives to traditional homework will thereby also teach your students new things that can’t be taught in the classroom. You will find a variety of homework ideas: online and offline.

I will mention homework alternatives for primary school and high school. Some of these ideas can be changed a little bit, so they are the perfect fit for the right audience.

20 Creative homework ideas

You can divide homework tasks into the following themes or categories:

• Crafts & arts
• Outdoor activities & outings
• Games and activities
• Physical activities
• Digital or computer activities
• Philanthropy & social work

💡 Good to know : all the ready-to-use homework activities are created with BookWidgets . You can easily create activities like these yourself or duplicate an activity below for free, edit it if needed, and share it with your students. You can do so in the examples separately, or you can find all the homework examples in the BookWidgets Blog group folder .

Crafts and arts homework

1. prepare a dish from a recipe book.

2. Make a board game

3. Create a birdhouse

4. Transform a fictional book character into a hand puppet

Outdoor homework activities and outings

5. coupon game.

Students can also go grocery shopping with their parents. Here, they have to read the ingredients of the products and help their parents choose the healthiest products for the best prices, figure out the best deal between the sizes of items, …

6. Visit the zoo

7. Visit the local dumping ground or container park

8. Build a tree house

Games and activities as homework

9. bookwidgets games.

10. Minecraft

11. Play Cards

12. Play Zoo Tycoon or Rollercoaster Tycoon

Physical homework activities

13. rope skipping.

Many rope-skipping songs let your students do different tricks while rope-skipping. This is an excellent opportunity for homework as well. Ask your students to transform a rope skipping song into a song with lesson content. Let them count or spell or even sum up the different states or capitals. To engage their lifestyles even harder, you can additionally give them the assignment to create a TikTok in which they are jumping and singing.

Click here to see how you can get Tiktok more involved in the classroom.

14. Walking quest

If there aren’t any walking quests in the neighborhood, you could ask your students to create a walking quest like this for their fellow students. What a fun day it will be!

15. Obstacle Quiz

In order for students to answer the questions, they have to run and pass a challenging parkour. This is a fun homework exercise, and in the end, it’s a great lesson starter or lesson end.

16. Swimming games

After the activity, they can fill out an Exit Slip:

Digital or computer homework activities

17. create a picture album.

This teaches them to handle the online software, add pictures and write without spelling mistakes. And of course, creating memories is so much fun!

18. Video job application

19. Your life in 10 minutes - video

20. Email pen-pals

Is it still too complicated? Read the messages from your students, before they send them, and provide them with some feedback.

Philanthropy and social homework

21. grow a community garden.

22. Help in a retirement home

23. Help at a homeless shelter

24. Collect litter

Here’s another homework tip: Don’t call homework “homework”. Call it a challenge. Homework has become a negative word for students, and I bet they start rolling their eyes as you even mention the word.

Still looking for more inspiration? Check out the blog on short films and lesson activities that spice up your Google Classroom . Tip: even if you don’t use Google Classroom, there is a lot of inspiration back here.

Above you have read single assignments. But, you also have the option to involve your homework in a project. Find out more here .

So, as I mentioned earlier, there are many fun alternatives to traditional homework. Now it’s up to you to apply this in the classroom as well. In this folder , you will find all the examples you have come across.

Which idea do you or perhaps your students like the most? Let us know on Twitter . Of course, there are many more alternatives. If you have other ideas, you are always welcome to share it with other teachers in our Facebook group .

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For many parents, homework is the only picture they get of what their child does at school. For this reason, Hamilton have put a great deal of effort into writing suitable, fun and home-friendly activities for children and parents to share together. Children will benefit and so will parents and teachers!

The activities rehearse core literacy skills that you may wish children to practise or keep on the boil. Read our English homework blog for more advice about using them.

Practise using time connectives, but trying not to use 'and then' more than once when recounting their day at school to an adult helper.

Understand the use of apostrophes to indicate possession by making signs for items belonging to different members of their family.

Explore the different elements of a story by playing the game of 'consequences' with a partner or two!

Understand that a verb or action word is essential for a sentence to make sense by playing a 'shortening sentences' game.

Write a short description of their mother or another family member in a style similar to that of the 'Dr Xargle' books.

Use imagination to restyle their bedrooms or another room at home. Draw the room and label using a number key.

Write a list of words and phrases to describe their feelings when they or their team, wins and loses a game, e.g. Football, cards, computer games.

Understand where adjectives and adverbs can be placed in a sentence by extending short sentences.

Make a list of old-fashioned words by talking to older family members, and a list of modern words that these folk may not have heard of.

Practise writing in short paragraphs by making an information poster about their pet or favourite animal.

Practise using spelling rules by playing a simple 'yes and no' guessing game.

Understand degrees of intensity which can be described using adjectives, by sorting and ordering groups of words with similar meanings (2 sheets).

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Welcome to our homework page. Here you will find information about the sort of homework that is expected each week from your child. In addition, our teachers have put together some downloadable pages of suggested activities relating to class topics.

What homework and when?

As you might expect, as pupils progress through the school, the level of homework will increase gradually. From reading to spelling to times tables, the expectations alter with each year group. The ‘Meet the Teacher’ session, in September, is the perfect opportunity to find out about the homework to be set in your child’s class. If you cannot attend this session, you are welcome to make appointments with our staff via the School Office.

As a rough guide, the table below gives examples of likely homework for each year group. Please note: this list is not exhaustive and your child’s teacher will adapt the homework according to the needs of the pupils and changes to the National Curriculum.

Topic activities for each term are downloadable from this page. Please note: they are not mandatory.

What is the purpose of homework?

Schools provide homework for a variety of reasons. At Penpol School, we believe that regular opportunities to undertake homework can benefit our pupils for the following reasons:

• It further demonstrates that learning can be fun
• It consolidates the skills we have taught in class
• It allows pupils to explore areas of interest within a topic, encouraging independent study
• It gives parents an insight into the learning that is taking place in class
• It encourages partnerships between parents and teachers
• It prepares pupils for secondary school – both in terms of workload and organisation

How to take the work out of homework

We are aware that, for many families, organising homework (such as weekly English and Maths activities) can feel like an extra chore, which inevitably defeats the main purpose: to demonstrate that learning can be fun! We want our parents to feel as confident as our pupils about what is expected for each class. With this in mind, we have put together some pointers for parents:

• Please don’t feel ‘burdened’ by homework! By the time they are juniors (Y3), pupils confidently adopt classroom routines and take on greater responsibility. Our teachers are promoting independence for this year group, but they will still remind students about school trips, parent letters, reading books and homework.
• Pupils know what to do if they get stuck. Part of the classroom discussion about homework includes strategies for overcoming common problems. For example, Who should you see if you are stuck? The Teacher. When should you see the teacher? Before the day it’s due in!
• Pupils succeed when it’s fresh in their minds. As you might expect, most children find homework more manageable if they attempt it as soon as it is set, rather than waiting until the night before it is due to be handed in.
• Helping a little helps a lot! We are delighted to have such supportive parents, who find the time to share in their children’s school activities. We’d like to thank you for your input and reassure you that there is no such thing as getting it wrong!
• Penpol teachers are very friendly. We hope that this page will help to alleviate any worries about homework expectations, but if you have a concern that has not been addressed, please make an appointment to see our lovely staff.
• Help is out there. For parents of older children, you may find that it’s a struggle to develop a homework routine that is manageable; you might even dread it! As a school, we don’t endorse any specific websites, but you may find articles, such as:  http://www.theschoolrun.com/simple-strategies-end-homework-wars   useful, so we thought we’d share it with you. Let us know if you find useful articles to share with other parents.

Marking homework

We reward genuine effort, rather than test scores alone. Where we see that pupils have challenged themselves to extend their learning at home, we will reward their effort with house tokens and stamps. Sometimes pictures of homework are shared on the Penpol Times or we might take a photo for our topics books. Spellings and times tables are tested and marked – as is most Maths and English – however, we do not give written feedback for all homework. Instead, it may be part of a class discussion, during which pupils are given verbal feedback. The format of marking is consistent with our marking policy. Needless to say, we like to make hard-workers feel special!

Topic activities

Please find below downloadable pages of homework suggestions for the topics your child will study this term. Please note: these activities are not mandatory. However, having successfully trialled this style of homework in Mrs Jane’s class, we have found that pupils are excited by the freedom of choice and the creative format.

As an incentive, teachers offer house tokens for maximum effort in homework. Some pupils have already featured in the Penpol Times for their extra-curricular efforts!

These pieces of work can be completed at any point during the term. Some children like to try something new every week, some pupils less often and some pupils need a little more encouragement.

In case you are wondering why we have included activities for last term…  We endeavour to promote life-long learning, therefore it doesn’t matter whether or not we have finished a topic in class, our pupils are welcome to continue researching subjects that capture their imaginations, no matter what the time of year!

Activity Passport

An editable activity checklist for children under 11. Includes guidance, a foreword from the Secretary of State and supporting resources. Produced by the Department for Education.

Homework Ideas

Find ideas for home learning on the Reception Curriculum page by clicking here.

Find ideas for home learning on the Year 1 Curriculum page by clicking here.

Find ideas for home learning on the Year 2 Curriculum page by clicking here.

Find ideas for home learning on the Year 3 Curriculum page by clicking here.

Find ideas for home learning on the Year 4 Curriculum page by clicking here.

Find ideas for home learning on the Year 5 Curriculum page by clicking here.

Find ideas for home learning on the Year 6 Curriculum page by clicking here.

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