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Help and Support

Please check this page regularly for any updates (most recent items first)

• Help with Reading
  Parentkind and Beanstalk provide useful suggestions for parents when helping their children to develop a love of reading.

• Department for Education
  Past papers for KS2 SATs are available to see what was expected in previous years

• The School Run
  All sorts of information, exercises, advice, suggestions for days out in the holidays etc. Some downloads require a subscription but a good deal of advice is free to registered users.

• I See Maths
  Videos of activities to try at home for different ages to encourage a love of maths - Celebrating Maths Project

• Michael Tidd Videos
  Further information about the actual detail of the SATs at Key Stage 1 with illustrations about the content. Intended to enable parents to support their children.

• Michael Tidd Videos
  Further information about the actual detail of the SATs at Key Stage 2 with illustrations about the content. Intended to enable parents to support their children.

• Mumsnet
  Reading with your child is probably one of the most important ways to help them learn and develop - but how to do it is a frequent question

• Mumsnet
  If you think your child is more able in maths and needs help to be stretched and challenged more, there are lots of ideas on these pages

• Mumsnet
  If you want to help your child understand maths concepts such as number lines, place value, chunking etc. there's lots of help here

• Mumsnet
  This site contains a great deal of expert advice in supporting your child's learning at home across the whole primary school curriculum

• Teaching Your Child
  There are lots of ways for parents/carers to support their child's reading and learning of phonics including visiting the library

• Teaching Your Child
  Writing skills is a section of this useful site with various ways in which parents/carers can encourage their children with writing

• Teaching Your Child
  Everyday maths provides excellent ideas of ways in which parents/carers can help their children with maths in everyday situations

• Phonics Screening
  This video explains the annual phonics screening test for all children in Year 1 (and sometimes in Year 2)

• Department for Education
  Video demonstrating the standard for a pupil at Key Stage 1 who is 'working towards' the expected standard in Reading

• Department for Education
  Video demonstrating the standard for a pupil at Key Stage 1 who is 'working at' the expected standard in Reading

• Department for Education
  Video demonstrating the standard for a pupil at Key Stage 2 who is 'working at' the expected standard in Reading

• Department for Education
  Video demonstrating the standard for pupils at Key Stage 2 in group discussion for Reading

• Department for Education
  Exemplification videos for Reading at Key Stages 1 and 2 which show the standard expected in several different aspects of the standards

• Phonics
  Learning the alphabet and the beginnings of phonics - understanding graphemes and phonemes

• Upton Infants School
  More information about phonemes and graphemes to enable you to help your children at home

• Year 1 Phonics Assessment
  Information about the phonics screening test which is administered towards the end of year 1

• Crickweb resources
  Resources to help with literacy at home using fun activities to stimulate learning at Key Stage 1

• BBC Bitesize
  The BBC site for learning is now available as an app, but there is access to lots of learning resources through the main page

Have you found an activity that is fun and helps your child's learning?  If so, please let us know and we'll put a link on this page.