Helping your child

Children’s learning should ideally be a partnership between home and school.  Children spend the vast majority of their learning time at home and we will do our best to ensure that the time they spend in school will enable your child to achieve better than they ever thought they could.  However, there are times when children will need additional encouragement at home, perhaps to complete homework; to practise their reading; to learn times tables; to research for projects etc, etc.

We offer parents support through:

•  termly maths workshops which are friendly, informal sessions focusing on one mathematical operation (eg addition) to demonstrate how children are taught methods of calculation.
• Reading workshops.  These are held when your child starts school in Reception. Following on from that we would encourage parents to listen to their children read, or read with them daily, to ask the children about the content and play games to make reading an enjoyable time which is valued
• We try not to plan any school meetings on a Monday after school so that all teachers are available from 3.30pm – 4.15pm to talk, advise and encourage parents.  Of course appointments can be made at other times to suit parents and the teacher if Monday’s are not convenient.

There are also many excellent websites available which offer parents support to help their child at home, for example the government website directgov-parents:

Helping children to learn at home: learning aids