Children receive weekly spellings to learn at home. Children are tested each week in school. It is a good idea to practice these daily if possible.

All children have access to Active Learn. This is used in class to support phonics, whole class reading and comprehension skills. 

The Bug Club programme helps to develop and enhance reading and comprehension skills. Once logged on, children can access the allocated texts for the class reader and independent reading scheme books. Children are expected to read through their books and answer the embedded comprehension questions.

Children are encouraged to read for pleasure. This can be anything from newspapers, to posters and recipes. Reading for pleasure is very important to us here at Grovelands. We believe that if children are given time to both read high quality books and hear them being read out loud it will ignite their imaginations, improve their writing and most importantly encourage their love of reading.

Children are also encouraged to use Purple Mash to support their writing skills at home. There are many creative writing activities and tasks available for the children to explore and use. Teachers may allocate tasks to their class as part of their weekly homework expectations.