At Chew Stoke Primary School we aim to create an effective working partnership between home and school for the benefit of the child’s learning.  When a child first starts at this school we encourage and hope that parents will spend approximately 10 minutes nightly sharing a book with their child.  We use a Parent/Teacher Reading Comment Book from this point onwards as an important means of communication - one that is sustained and developed as the child progresses through the school.  In due course, in line with developing literacy and numeracy skills, we introduce spellings to learn at home and follow up maths activities.  Further homework activities are gradually introduced.  These include literacy and numeracy activities which children are expected to complete at home. 

We believe that a high level of parental involvement has a large impact on standards and the quality of children’s learning activities which the children are expected to complete at home.  Some classes use homework diaries so that pupils can start to plan and organise their own study.