Supporting your child at home
The happiest and most successful children know that their family supports them and shows an interest in their day at school.
- Talk to your child about what they are doing at school.
- Encourage them to find out things for themselves.
- Read books with your child. Take them to the local library and help them to choose books.
- Let your child help you in the kitchen and when you are doing other work in the home.
- Listen to your child. Encourage them to ask questions. If you do not have the answer, why not find out together?
A Useful Website - Advice from Miss Byrne
Wondering how to support your child with Maths at home? Confused with all the different strategies?
Follow the below link:
https://www.thenational.academy/teachers/programmes/maths-primary-ks1-l/units
This website has fantastic videos you can watch about how we teach Maths. They clearly model each step and provide questions for your child to answer. Please explore Year 1 and 2 videos.
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Maths - What strategies do we use in the classroom?
Homework and Reading
There is an expectation that your child brings their reading book to school every day. We have been extremely lucky to have received brand-new reading books for the children to take home this year. You must look after these books as any books that get damaged, will have to be replaced by the parent of the child who damages the book.
Please ensure that you read your school reading book at home daily. The more regularly a child reads, the quicker they develop their skills which help in every subject that we teach.
KS1 children will be given homework every Friday via Purple Mash (logins will be given to the children during week 1) and we expect this to be submitted online by the following Friday.
KS1 children will also be given key spellings to practise at home. These spellings are the words expected to be spelt by the end of the school year so please ensure to regularly practise these at home.