Reading 

We aim to inspire our children to read every day because of the phenomenal impact it will have on their lives and the wonderful things it will help them achieve.

EYFS, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2

• Encourage your child to read regularly at least 10 minutes everyday

• Read with your child and share some quality time together talking about books

• Support your child to access Bug Club to read, earn points and play games in a safe and secure online environment 

Spelling and Handwriting

Our aim is that all our children take immense pride in the presentation and quality of their written work; that through our combined, high expectations, they are inspired to create masterpieces and achieve their highest potentials.

EYFS 

• Support your child each week to learn their half termly high frequency words

• Encourage your child to write their high frequency words in beautiful cursive script

• Learn their weekly phoneme 

Key Stage 1 & Key Stage 2

• Support your child each week to learn their spellings using their homework sheet and Spelling Shed 

• Spelling tests are on Fridays

• Encourage your child to logon to Letter Join to practice their cursive script handwriting. All children from Year 3 onwards should be writing in cursive script

Maths 

We aim to inspire children to foster a passion for Maths in a way that is both challenging and supportive. 

EYFS 

• Encourage your child to count everyday objects

• Help your child to recognise numbers in their environment for eg, house numbers, road signs, buses etc

• Talk about different shapes in the environment 

• Support your child to access Mathletics where their teacher will have set them activities to complete each week.  

Key Stage 1 & Key Stage 2

• Support and encourage your child to complete their homework on Mathletics and any activities they bring home 

• Involve Maths in their everyday life by asking questions for eg, ‘Who has got the most? ‘What if I take 2 of them?’ 

• Help your child to quickly recall all of  the addition and subtraction facts for all numbers up to 20

• Support your child to access TTRockstars to practise their times tables on a daily basis