Helping Your Child At Home

Reading and Writing:  

We use Sounds Write Phonics, a well-researched programme that enables children to decode (read) and encode (write/spell) every word they encounter.  

To help your child become a fluent reader, daily reading at home is a must.  The more your child reads the more fluent they will become.  We send home decodable book - linked to Sounds Write phonics - but also a book for pleasure, which you can read with or to them, so that they become familiar with different styles of books and stories.  

The Sounds Write app offers games and learning activities to do at home and is available to download for free here. 

Sounds Write offers a free parent course to help you support your child. There are a number of supporting documents below for top tips to encourage and promote Reading for Pleasure at home.  Please record in your child’s reading record each time you read so that we can see how your child is progressing at home; we also use this to communicate with you. 

To encourage Reading for Pleasure, you can use Oxford Owl to read and listen to a variety of books on the computer or I-pad! Each class will have a log in for the children to access more books and audiobooks at home. https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ and go to ‘my class login’ 

Handwriting:  

We send home home a weekly handwriting sheet to help your child develop their letter formation skills.  Check that your child is using the correct pincer/tripod grip. It is really important that your child has strong core and shoulder muscles to sit correctly and have stamina for longer pieces of writing.  

Maths

Our teaching aims to provide every child with maths mastery 

skills.  This is a small step approach that deepens children's knowledge of number and operations.  Being fluent with number bonds is essential to this and daily practice on Numbots really helps this. Each child has a unique log in where they can play games and practise and apply skills, such as subitising, number bonds and addition and subtraction.