WAYS YOU CAN HELP YOUR CHILD SUCCEED...

There are lots of ways parents and carers can help children at home, but making sure they regularly complete their homework and hand it in on time is essential.

It would also help if you could:-

•  Ensure your child has a calm quiet working space.
•  Talk with your child about what they are learning and the homework they have been set.
•  Visit the library regularly.

Ideally parents should read with or listen to their children daily to help them to develop fluency, confidence and a love for reading. We ask parents and carers in Foundation Stage and Key Stage One to sign and record comments in their child’s Reading Diary to show that they have heard their child read and to maintain a dialogue between home and school of how well their child is reading. If parents and carers have any questions about homework or their child's learning they should, in the first instance, contact their child’s class teacher.

READING

• Read some common irregular words.
• Use phonic knowledge to decide regular words & read aloud accurately.
• Identify rhymes and alliteration.
• Join in with rhyming patterns.
• Read & understand simple sentences.
• Demonstrate understanding when talking with others about what they have read.
• Make basic predictions.
• Identify start and end of a sentence.

WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP MY CHILD:

• Read books with your child and talk about the story, the poems or the information in them. What parts of the book have they enjoyed the most and why?
• Remember that reading isn’t just about books—make the most of shop and street signs when you are out and about. Why not ask your child to find out what a DVD is about by reading the back of the box,
• Allow your child to read at their own pace and encourage them to re-read their favourite stories. This will help to begin recognising familiar letters and words.

WAYS YOU CAN HELP YOUR CHILD SUCCEED...

There are lots of ways parents and carers can help children at home, but making sure they regularly complete their homework and hand it in on time is essential.

It would also help if you could:-

• Ensure your child has a calm quiet working space.
• Talk with your child about what they are learning and the homework they have been set.
• Visit the library regularly, which will also help.

Ideally parents should read with or listen to their children daily to help them to develop fluency, confidence and a love for reading. We ask parents and carers in Foundation Stage and Key Stage One to sign and record comments in their child’s Reading Diary to show that they have heard their child read and to maintain a dialogue between home and school of how well their child is reading.

In Key Stage Two, children are encouraged and supported to keep a reading journal allowing them, through a range of different activities, to demonstrate what they have been reading, their understanding of what they have read and their personal preferences. Maths in everyday life Talk about maths whilst cooking, looking at travel timetables or working out change at the shop.

If parents and carers have any questions about homework or their child's learning they should, in the first instance, contact their child’s class teacher.

READING

WAYS YOU CAN HELP YOUR CHILD SUCCEED...

There are lots of ways parents and carers can help children at home, but making sure they regularly complete their homework and hand it in on time is essential.

It would also help if you could:-

• Ensure your child has a calm quiet working space.
• Talk with your child about what they are learning and the homework they have been set.
• Visit the library regularly, which will also help.

Ideally parents should read with or listen to their children daily to help them to develop fluency, confidence and a love for reading. We ask parents and carers in Foundation Stage and Key Stage One to sign and record comments in their child’s Reading Diary to show that they have heard their child read and to maintain a dialogue between home and school of how well their child is reading.

In Key Stage Two children are encouraged and supported to keep a reading journal allowing them, through a range of different activities, to demonstrate what they have been reading, their understanding of what they have read and their personal preferences.

If parents and carers have any questions about homework or their child's learning they should, in the first instance, contact their child’s class teacher.

READING

• Read aloud accurately without overt sounding out.
• Apply their phonics knowledge to unknown words.
• Recognise simple recurring literary language.
• Read ahead to help with fluency and expression.
• Comment on plot, setting & characters in familiar & unfamiliar stories.
• Recount main themes and events.
• Comment on structure of the text.
• Use commas, question marks and exclamation marks to vary expression.
•  Read aloud with expression and intonation.
• Recognise: commas in lists apostrophe of omission and possession (singular noun)
• Identify past/present tense and why the writer has used a tense.
• Use content and index to locate information.
• Read common exception words (see at the back)

WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP MY CHILD:

• Read books with your child and talk about the story, the poems or the information in them. What parts of the book have they enjoyed the most and why?
• Remember that reading isn’t just about books— make the most of shop and street signs when you are out and about. Why not ask your child to find out what a DVD is about by reading the back of the box?
• Allow your child to read at their own pace and encourage them to re-read their favourite stories. This will help to begin recognising familiar letters and words.

WRITING

• Write different kinds of sentence: statement, question, exclamation, command.
• Use expanded noun phrases to add description and specification.
• Write using subordination (when, if, that, because) and coordination (or, and, but).
• Correct and consistent use of present tense & past tense.
• Correct use of verb tenses.
• Write with correct and consistent use of: capital letters full stops question marks exclamation marks
• Use commas in a list.
• Use apostrophe to mark omission and singular possession in nouns.
• Write under headings.
• Write lower case letters correct size relative to one another.
• Show evidence of diagonal and horizontal strokes to join handwriting.
• Spell common exception words 

WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP MY CHILD:

• Encourage your child to want to write. Let them use crayons, pencils, felt-tips & paints to make patterns and pictures.
• Write down a story your child tells you—they will learn through what they see. Get them to suggest words and phrases.
• Find lots of opportunities to write together—make lists before you go shopping, and write letters to friends and family. Help them to make their own books, posters or labels for things in their room.

MATHS

• Compare and order numbers up to 100 and use < > =.
• Read and write all numbers to 100 in digits & words.
• Say 10 more/less than any number to 100.
• Count in steps of 2, 3 & 5 from zero and in 10s from any number (forwards and backwards).
• Recall and use multiplication & division facts for 2, 5 & 10 tables.
• Recall and use +/- facts to 20.
• Derive and use related facts to 100.
• Recognise place value of any 2-digit number.
• Add & subtract: 2-digit nos & ones: 56+7 2-digit nos & tens: 32+10 Two 2-digit nos: 63+28 Three 1-digit nos: 7+4+1
• Recognise and use inverse (+/-).
• Calculate and write multiplication & division calculations using multiplication tables.
• Recognise, find, name and write 1/3; 1/4; 2/4; 3/4 of shapes and quantities.
• Write and recognise equivalence of simple fractions: 1/2=2/4
• Tell time to five minutes, including quarter past/to.

Maths in everyday life

• Talk about maths when cooking, working out change, counting how many cars you can see.
• Checking door numbers, bus numbers and numbers on lifts.
• Help your child to count from a number .
• Help them to recite their times tables.

COMMON EXCEPTION WORDS…

Door Floor Poor Because Find Kind Mind Behind Child Children Wild Climb Most Only Both Old Cold Gold Hold Told Every Great Break Steak Pretty Beautiful After Fast Last Past Father Class Grass Pass Plant Path Bath Hour Move Prove Improve Sure Sugar Eye Could Should Would Who Whole Any Many Clothes Busy People Water Again Half Money Mr Mrs Parents Christmas Everybody Even

WAYS YOU CAN HELP YOUR CHILD SUCCEED...

There are lots of ways parents and carers can help children at home, but making sure they regularly complete their homework and hand it in on time is essential.

It would also help if you could:-

• Ensure your child has a calm quiet working space.
• Talk with your child about what they are learning and the homework they have been set
• Visit the library regularly, which will also help.

Ideally parents should read with or listen to their children daily to help them to develop fluency, confidence and a love for reading. We ask parents and carers in Foundation Stage and Key Stage One to sign and record comments in their child’s Reading Diary to show that they have heard their child read and to maintain a dialogue between home and school of how well their child is reading.

In Key Stage Two children are encouraged and supported to keep a reading journal in their learning log to demonstrate what they have been reading, which again needs to be signed by an adult.

If parents and carers have any questions about homework or their child's learning they should, in the first instance, contact their child’s class teacher.

READING

• Comment on the way characters relate to one another.
• Apply their knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes to read aloud and understand the meaning of new words
• Draw inferences such as inferring characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions.
• Recognise inverted commas
• Recognise: plurals pronouns and how used collective nouns adverbs
• Explain the difference that the precise choice of adjectives and verbs make.
• Predict what might happen from details stated and implied

WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP MY CHILD:

• Remember that reading isn’t just about books— make the most of shop and street signs when you are out and about. Why not ask your child to find out what a DVD is about by reading the back of the box
• Read books with your child and talk about the story, the poems or the information in them. What parts of the book have they enjoyed the most and why?
• Allow your child to read at their own pace and encourage them to re-read their favourite stories. This will help to begin recognising familiar letters and words.

WRITING

• Use conjunctions (when, so, before, after, while, because).
• Use adverbs (e.g. then, next, soon).
• Use prepositions (e.g. before, after, during, in, because of).
• Experiment with adjectives to create impact.
• Correctly use verbs in 1st, 2nd and 3rd person.
• Use perfect form of verbs to mark relationships of time and cause.
• Use inverted commas to punctuate direct speech.
• Group ideas into basic paragraphs.
• Write under headings and sub-headings.
• Write with increasing legibility, consistency and fluency.
• Proof-read for spelling and punctuation errors.

WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP MY CHILD:

• Beginning writers become more fluent and mature writers only with practice but this shouldn’t be forced. Finding everyday opportunities for your child to practice their writing skills will help develop their skills and love for writing.
• Family writing projects: holiday letter writing, Scrapbooks and photo albums. Keep souvenirs of your family activities in an album. Ask your children to help you write in dates and captions. Leave notes or reminders for each other.
• Help your child to use their reading to support them as writers, for example, ask them to look at how a writer they like uses varied sentences or organises paragraphs.

MATHS

• Compare & order numbers up to 1000.
• Read & write all numbers to 1000 in digits and words.
• Find 10 or 100 more/less than a given number.
• Count from 0 in multiples of 4, 8, 50 and 100.
• Recall & use multiplication & division facts for 3, 4, 8 tables.
•  Recognise place value of any 3-digit number.
• Add and subtract: 3-digit nos and ones 3-digit nos and tens 3-digit nos and hundreds
• Add and subtract: Numbers with up to 3-digits using written columnar method.
• Estimate and use inverse to check.
• Multiply: 2-digit by 1-digit
• Count up/down in tenths.
• Compare and order fractions with same denominator.
• Add and subtract fractions with same denominator with whole.
• Tell time using 12 and 24 hour clocks; and using Roman numerals.
• Tell time to nearest minute.
• Know number of days in each month and number of seconds in a minute.

MATHS IN EVERYDAY LIFE

Try these at home and talk about maths whilst cooking, looking at travel timetables and planning journeys, looking at TV schedules, adding up on-line shopping bills, working out change, estimating weights, lengths, heights and ordering them, making things, estimating large numbers – how many people are in the football crowd?

• Help your child to tell the time. Help them to recite their 2,5,10,3,4 and 8 times tables regularly.

WAYS YOU CAN HELP YOUR CHILD SUCCEED...

There are lots of ways parents and carers can help children at home, but making sure they regularly complete their homework and hand it in on time is essential.

It would also help if you could:-

• Ensure your child has a calm quiet working space.
• Talk with your child about what they are learning and the homework they have been set
• Visit the library regularly, which will also help.

Ideally parents should read with or listen to their children daily to help them to develop fluency, confidence and a love for reading. We ask parents and carers in Foundation Stage and Key Stage One to sign and record comments in their child’s Reading Diary to show that they have heard their child read and to maintain a dialogue between home and school of how well their child is reading.

In Key Stage Two children are encouraged and supported to keep a reading journal allowing them, through a range of different activities, to demonstrate what they have been reading, their understanding of what they have read and their personal preferences.

If parents and carers have any questions about homework or their child's learning they should, in the first instance, contact their child’s class teacher.

READING

• Give a personal point of view on a text.
• Re-explain a text with confidence.
•  Justify inferences with evidence, predicting what might happen from details stated or implied.
• Use appropriate voices for characters within a story.
• Recognise apostrophe of possession (plural)
• Identify how sentence type can be changed by altering word order, tenses, adding/deleting words or amending punctuation.
• Explain why a writer has used different sentence types or a particular word order and the effect it has created.
• Skim & scan to locate information and/or answer a question.

WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP MY CHILD:

• Talking about what you’ve just read together helps children think about what they’ve read, boosts their imagination and grows their confidence. It’s also a good way to pick up on new words and check that they understand what they’ve read.
• TAKE TIME TO LISTEN, LISTEN, LISTEN Listening with your eyes as well as your ears – giving them your full attention as they talk or read to you. • Telling them one thing you really enjoyed about their reading
• ENJOY READING EVERYWHERE Going online together and reading or printing off a web page that interests them. • Carrying a book or comic in your bag to share when you are out and about, on the bus, train, etc.

WRITING

• Vary sentence structure, using different openers.
• Use adjectival phrases (e.g. biting cold wind).
• Use appropriate choice of noun or pronoun.
• Use fronted adverbials.
• Use apostrophe for plural possession.
• Use a comma after fronted adverbial (e.g. Later that day, I heard bad news.).
• Use commas to mark clauses.
• Use inverted commas and other punctuation to punctuate direct speech.
• Use paragraphs to organised ideas around a theme.
• Use connecting adverbs to link paragraphs.
• Write with increasing legibility, consistency and fluency.

WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP MY CHILD:

• Beginning writers become more fluent and mature writers only with practice but this shouldn’t be forced. Finding everyday opportunities for your child to practice their writing skills will help develop their skills and love for writing.
• Family writing projects: holiday letter writing, Scrapbooks and photo albums. Keep souvenirs of your family activities in an album. Ask your children to help you write in dates and captions. Leave notes or reminders for each other.
• Help your child to use their reading to support them as writers, for example, ask them to look at how a writer they like uses varied sentences or organises paragraphs.

MATHS

• Count backwards through zero to include negative numbers.
• Compare and order numbers beyond 1,000.
• Compare and order numbers with up to 2 decimal places.
• Read Roman numerals to 100.
• Find 1,000 more/less than a given number.
• Count in multiples of 6, 7, 9, 25 and 1000.
• Recall and use multiplication and division facts all tables to 12x12.
• Recognise PV of any 4-digit number.
• Round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000.
• Round decimals with 1dp to nearest whole number.
• Add and subtract: Numbers with up to 4-digits using written columnar method.
• Multiply: 2-digit by 1-digit 3-digit by 1-digit
• Count up/down in hundredths.
• Recognise and write equivalent fractions
• Add and subtract fractions with same denominator.
• Read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12 and 24 hour clocks.

MATHS IN EVERYDAY LIFE

Try these at home and talk about maths whilst cooking, looking at travel timetables and planning journeys, looking at TV schedules, adding up on-line shopping bills, working out change, estimating weights, lengths, heights and ordering them, making things, estimating large numbers – how many people are in the football crowd?

• Help your child to count from a number .
• Help them to recite their times tables.

WAYS YOU CAN HELP YOUR CHILD SUCCEED...

There are lots of ways parents and carers can help children at home, but making sure they regularly complete their homework and hand it in on time is essential.

It would also help if you could:-

• Ensure your child has a calm quiet working space.
• Talk with your child about what they are learning and the homework they have been set
• Visit the library regularly, which will also help.

Ideally parents should read with or listen to their children daily to help them to develop fluency, confidence and a love for reading.

In Key Stage Two children are encouraged and supported to keep a reading journal allowing them, through a range of different activities, to demonstrate what they have been reading, their understanding of what they have read and their personal preferences.

If parents and carers have any questions about homework or their child's learning they should, in the first instance, contact their child’s class teacher.

READING

• Summarise main points of an argument or discussion within their reading and make up own mind about issue/s.
• Compare between two texts
• Appreciate that people use bias in persuasive writing.
• Appreciate how two people may have a different view on the same event.
• Draw inferences and justify with evidence from the text.
• Vary voice for direct or indirect speech.
• Recognise clauses within sentences.
• Explain how and why a writer has used clauses to add information to a sentence.
• Use more than one source when carrying out research.
• Create a set of notes to summarise what has been read.

WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP MY CHILD:

• Helping your child become a reader is the single most important thing that you can do. Encourage your child to read wider range of materials and visit their local or school library regularly .
• Allow your child to read at their own pace and encourage them to talk with you about what they are reading
• KEY BOOKTALK QUESTIONS Was there anything you liked about this book/text? Was there anything you disliked about this book/text? Was there anything that puzzled you? Were there any patterns-any connections- that you noticed?

WRITING

• Add phrases to make sentences more precise and detailed.
• Use range of sentence openers – judging the impact or effect needed.
• Begin to adapt sentence structure to text type.
• Use pronouns to avoid repetition.
• Indicate degrees of possibility using adverbs (e.g. perhaps, surely) or modal verbs (e.g. might, should, will).
• Use the following to indicate parenthesis: brackets dashes comma
• Use commas to clarify meaning or avoid ambiguity.
•  Link clauses in sentences using a range of subordinating and coordinating conjunctions.
• Use verb phrases to create subtle differences (e.g. she began to run).
• Consistently organise into paragraphs.
• Link ideas across paragraphs using adverbials of time (e.g. later), place (e.g. nearby) and number (e.g. secondly).
• Write legibly, fluently and with increasing speed.

WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP MY CHILD:

• Before they start to write talk through their ideas with them, for example, prompt them to think about how they intend to tackle a subject. Afterwards help them to reflect on their writing, particularly the effect they hoped to have on the reader.
• Encourage their personal writing, for example, a journal or diary, social networking, a blog. But ensure you take necessary safeguards when using the world wide web.
• Gifts of Writing. Greeting cards with personal messages and poems are more meaningful when they're homemade, rather than store-bought. An older child may enjoy the challenge of writing a ballad or song lyrics in honour of a special some-one or occasion. Homemade books and calendars also make nice gifts of writing

MATHS

• Count forwards and backward with positive and negative numbers through zero.
• Count forwards/backwards in steps of powers of 10 for any given number up to 1,000,000.
• Compare and order numbers up to 1,000,000.
• Compare and order numbers with 3 decimal places.
• Read Roman numerals to 1,000.
• Identify all multiples and factors, including finding all factor pairs.
• Use known tables to derive other number facts.
• Recall prime numbers up to 19.
• Recognise and use square numbers and cube numbers.
• Recognise place value of any number up to 1,000,000.
• Round any number up to 1,000,000 to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10,000 or 100,000.
• Round decimals with 2 decimal places to nearest whole number and 1 decimal place.
• Add and subtract: Numbers with more than 4-digits using formal written method. Use rounding to check answers.
• Multiply: 4-digits by 1-digit/ 2-digit
• Divide: Up to 4-digits by 1-digit
• Multiply & divide: Whole numbers & decimals by 10, 100 and 1,000
• Recognise and use thousandths.
• Recognise mixed numbers and improper fractions and convert from one to another.
• Multiply proper fractions and mixed numbers by whole numbers.

MATHS IN EVERYDAY LIFE

Try these at home and talk about maths whilst cooking, looking at travel timetables and planning journeys, looking at TV schedules, adding up online shopping bills, working out change, estimating weights, lengths, heights and ordering them, making things, estimating large numbers – how many people are in the football crowd?

• Help them to recite their times tables.
• Help your child to count from a number .

WAYS YOU CAN HELP YOUR CHILD SUCCEED...

There are lots of ways parents and carers can help children at home, but making sure they regularly complete their homework and hand it in on time is essential.

It would also help if you could:-

• Ensure your child has a calm quiet working space.
• Talk with your child about what they are learning and the homework they have been set
• Visit the library regularly, which will also help.

Ideally parents should make sure their older children read between 15 minutes to half an hour daily to help them to develop fluency, confidence and a love for reading.

We ask parents of Key Stage Two children to encourage and support their children to keep an up to date reading journal allowing them, through a range of different activities, to demonstrate what they have been reading, their understanding of what they have read and their personal preferences.

If parents and carers have any questions about homework or their child's learning they should, in the first instance, contact their child’s class teacher.

READING

• Read books with confidence and fluency
• Read a wide selection of literature both at home and school for pleasure.
• Refer to text to support opinions and predictions.
• Work out the meaning of words from the context of the text.
• Give a view about choice of vocabulary, structure, etc.
•  Distinguish between fact and opinion.
• Appreciate how a set of sentences has been arranged to create maximum effect.
• Explain their understanding of what they have read, drawing references and justifying these with evidence.
• Explain how a writer has used sentences to create particular effects.
• Skim and scan to aide note-taking.
• Make comparisons within and across books.

WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP MY CHILD:

• Helping your child become a reader is the single most important thing that you can do. Encourage your child to read a wider range of materials and visit their local or school library regularly .
• Allow your child to read at their own pace and encourage them to talk with you about what they are reading.
• KEY BOOKTALK QUESTIONS Was there anything you liked about this book/text? Was there anything you disliked about this book/text? Was there anything that puzzled you? Were there any patterns-any connections- that you noticed?

WRITING

• PRODUCE LEGIBLE, JOINED HANDWRITING
• Continue to use capital letters, full stops, question marks, commas for lists, and apostrophes correctly.
• Spell words in the Year 3 and 4 and Year 5 and 6 list correctly.
• Use subordinate clauses to write complex sentences.
• Use passive voice and modal verbs where appropriate.
• Use expanded noun phrases, preposition phrases and adverbs, to convey complicated information concisely
• Select vocabulary and grammatical structures that reflect the level of formality required.
• Use a semi-colon or colon to mark the boundary between independent clauses.
• Use a colon to introduce a list and semi colons within a list.
• Use correct punctuation of bullet points.
• Use hyphens to avoid ambiguity.
• Use full range of punctuation matched to requirements of text type.
• Use wide range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs.
• Use paragraphs to signal change in time, scene, action, mood or person.
• Write legibly, fluently and with increasing speed.
• Use dashes, brackets and commas to mark parenthesis

WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP MY CHILD:

• Before they start to write talk through their ideas with them, for example, prompt them to think about how they intend to tackle a subject. Afterwards help them to reflect on their writing, particularly the effect they hoped to have on the reader.
• Encourage their personal writing, for example, a journal or diary, social networking, a blog. But ensure you take necessary safeguards when using the world wide web.
• Gifts of Writing. Greeting cards with personal messages and poems are more meaningful when they're homemade, rather than store-bought. An older child may enjoy the challenge of writing a ballad or song lyrics in honour of a special someone or occasion. Homemade books and calendars also make nice gifts of writing.

MATHS

• Use negative numbers in context and calculate intervals across zero.
• Compare and order numbers up to 10,000,000.
• Identify common factors, common multiples and prime numbers.
• Round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy.
• Identify the value of each digit to 3 decimal places.
• Use knowledge of order of operations to carry out calculations involving four operations.
• Multiply: 4-digit by 2-digit
• Divide: 4-digit by 2-digit
• Add and subtract fractions with different denominators and mixed numbers.
• Multiply simple pairs of proper fractions, writing the answer in the simplest form.
• Divide proper fractions by whole numbers. 
• Calculate % of whole number.

MATHS IN EVERYDAY LIFE

Try these at home and talk about maths whilst cooking, looking at travel timetables and planning journeys, looking at TV schedules, adding up on-line shopping bills, working out change, estimating weights, lengths, heights and ordering them, making things, estimating large numbers – how many people are in the football crowd?

• Help your child to recite their times tables. As well as being able to divide and multiply any number by 10,100 and 1000, they should also be able to halve and double numbers mentally.