How can you help your child?
Parents often ask how they can best help their child at home. We postively encourage you to do this! Here's some advice.
Video: Helping Your Child Read
We produced a video with the help of the children, teachers, parents and carers, showing different strategies to support your child's reading. View the video. Download the accompanying leaflet - 'A Guide to Reading' (PDF format).
Booklets
We've produced the following booklets to offer guidance on supporting pupils with reading and writing. All 4 of the following links are PDF documents - you'll need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the files.
Starting school - Reading and Writing
Beginning Reading - Advice for the parents of Key Stage 1 children
Beginning Writing - Advice for the parents of Key Stage 1 children
Key Stage 2 - Reading and Writing
Developing Reading - Advice for the parents of Key Stage 2 children
Developing Writing - Advice for the parents of Key Stage 2 children
We'd be interested to know if you found these booklets useful, or if you have any suggestions for improvement - contact us.