Dormers Wells Junior School

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On this page you will find out about:

Curriculum	About the school and how to join	Pastoral	How to help your child
Aims of the school A list of the aims of the school	Our school A brief history and description of the school and how it is organised into classes.	Child protection What our policy is to keep our pupils safe	Helping your child how to read: 10 top tips
curriculum What we teach	admissions: How to apply for a place at our school	discipline Rules, santions and our behaviour code	Helping your child with their English both reading and writing.
Curriculum Topics The topics we teach in the Foundation subjects each term	home school agreement: What we all expect from each other	equal opportunities	Helping your child with their Maths
homelearning What we do about home learning	attendance The school's policy on attendance & holidays	special needs & disability	Help for packed Lunches: Two sources of ideas. Click here for ideas from the Government for packed school meals and here are some more ideas from the BBC
End of Key Stage 2 Tests A power point presentation about Year 6 tests for 2009 (You will need power point to open this)	Fair processing Notice Our duties as a data holder	Bullying What we do about bullying in our school	Helping in school A handbook for our volunteers
Physical Education Information about what pupils do and what is expected of them.	organisation Information about 'how we do things' at our school	Managing poor behaviour Our policy on how to deal with pupils who have poor behaviour	Some of our helpers have worked as teachers while living in other countries. They would like to become teachers here.
	legal requirements Charging policy & complaints	Food Policy How we aim to provide good quality advice and food for the school.	Click here for general information on training to become a teacher.
	School uniform		Click here for information about becoming a teacher if you are an overseas trained teacher.
			Click here to link to NARIC which is the National Recognition Information Centre for the United Kindom, this will help to inform you about whether your qualifications will enable you to teach in this country.

The general aims of Dormers Wells Junior School are:

• To enable the children to enjoy learning

• To provide each child, according to their individual needs and abilities, with opportunities to develop the wide range of knowledge and concepts which will be needed in life and to reach their highest potential academically;

• To encourage the children to develop an environmental awareness and knowledge of the world about them;

• To provide each child with opportunities to develop his/her personality and character;

• To encourage self discipline, initiative, endeavour and a responsible, positive attitude to others regardless of gender, culture, race, ability or religion.

• To help each child to develop pride and confidence in themselves and their work;

• To encourage young people to play a positive role in society so that the whole community is seen to benefit from education.

Homelearning policy

Things you can do at home to help your child

It is our policy to set homework for all children to do. No child should spend longer than 60 minutes to do their homework. However we do feel that time spent on activities and games with you as parents is just as important as homework. There are many board games with an educational value such as Ludo, Connect 4, Frustration, or Monopoly and Scrabble. Visits and trips out also help children to develop their general knowledge as well watching some television programmes. It would help if you could watch television together and talk about it afterwards.

There will be occasions during the year when homework is not set (such as when a class has a special activity like an assembly to do for the whole school) but this should not happen often.

Reading

As well as other homework we like the children to read every night for between 10 and 30 minutes. All children have a special Reading Record Book that should be signed each evening by an adult to show what pages have been read. Parents are the best people to do this. Often there is room for a comment too. Please take time to hear your child read aloud and/or discuss their book with them. Reading books should be brought back into school every day.

Mathematics and Language including Written work

We ask the children to learn their number bonds, multiplication tables and some spellings weekly.

Work is set weekly in each year group for maths and language. All children are expected to complete a piece of free writing each week. It is important that all school books are returned to school, as we have to charge for lost or damaged books.

Please sign the homework that is done by your child, you can also make comments about what your child has done if you think this would be helpful.

Other subjects

The children may also be asked to do work from other lessons as the need arises or to research a topic. This will not happen every week. Sometimes a visit to the library may be necessary, or some questions for research may need to be answered.

Help and Support

The most important part of homework is the part that parents play. You are the best people to help and encourage your children. You need to make sure that homework is done at a sensible time by your child in a suitable quiet place, on a table, away from things that could make their books messy and out of the reach of smaller children. They will need a waterproof bag to carry their books. We sell suitable bags in school.

Days when homework is set

Years 3 and 4

• Work given out on a Friday, collected on a Tuesday.

Years 5 and 6

• Work given out on a Friday, collected on a Monday

• Work given out on a Tuesday given in on Thursday

We hope this answers the many questions we have had about homelearning.

Topics of learning each term

Autumn term topics

Spring term topics

Summer term topics

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Children in the oldest year group: Year 6 are elected to be prefects. They have jobs to do around the school to help the staff they wear special badges to show that they are prefects. They can also be called upon by other children to help if they have a problem.

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