What's a Workabook?

Workabooks contain everything your child needs for homework at primary school. Workabook homework is intended as an extension of class work; it has very close links with the Revised Primary National Strategies for literacy and mathematics.

What’s in the Workabook?

Workabook homework is based on three different types of homework activity:

Learning Exercises
These involve many things your child should learn this year.

Mathematics Workabooks divide the learning facts for the year into manageable, ‘bite-sized’ chunks. Most of these learning facts such as units and multiplication tables need to be learned by heart.

Literacy Workabooks contain World of Words lists. These help to enrich childrens’ writing and speaking as well as their spelling ability.

Practice Exercises
These are exercises to build confidence. Workabooks contain Practice Exercises at three different levels:

A is for a good basic level
B is for building up confidence
C is for more of a challenge

The teacher will normally choose the level, but if your child also wants to try the next level up, encourage them to have a go!

Thinking Tasks
These make use of the skills developed in the Learning and Practice Exercises, and show how what's been learnt can be applied in everyday life.

Workabooks also include the following:
A mini dictionary containing important vocabulary for the year. Children can use this to build up their own definitions during the year.

Literacy Workabooks have a reading record to promote children's personal reading and encourage them to evaluate and discriminate.

An achievement page to add to every time an exercise is completed. This page rewards effort and provides a record of your child’s achievement.