Supporting Your Child at Home
There are many ways you can further your child’s learning at home - the first and foremost being supporting them with their completion of homework and home reading. The guidance below helps explain how:
Maths
The weekly maths homework given consolidates the key skills covered in class and helps children become secure in their ability to use the main mathematical operations. This useful guide covers many of the skills your child will need to know by the time they leave school. Look for the questions which are similar to the ones set in your child’s homework to see how we teach the children to solve them in school.
For further guidance on how to approach all the different calculation methods, please view the videos linked below.
Reading
We ask that children read at least four times a week at home. The impact this has on all aspects of a child’s development can not be overstated. We understand that it can be difficult to know exactly how to help your child with their reading, but we have created this video guide to explain how we approach reading in school and hopefully offer some useful tips on how you can make the most of the time spent reading with your child.
Simply put, reading can be broken down in to two key elements - decoding and comprehension. Decoding focuses on children’s ability to use their phonics skills to read words, whilst comprehension develops their understanding of what they have read. The videos below offer further support.