Getting to know comprehension

Help your child practise their comprehension skills at home with helpful advice from primary education and author Rachel Clarke

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Five tips to help kids learn a language

Keep your child’s language learning on track with these helpful tips from best-selling author and language export Paul Noble

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Improve English and Maths skills at home

Primary school have changed a lot over recent years and expectations for young children are high

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What are Common Exception words?

Common Exception words are everyday words that break the phonic rules taught at school

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Fun ways to help your child with phonics

Literacy expert Gill Matthews, gives advice on how to continue your child’s phonic learning at home

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How to support your child with writing at home

Author Rachel Clarke takes a look at some of the writing skills taught in each year group and suggests way to help your child with them at home

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Help your Key Stage 1 child with reading

Literacy expert Gill Matthews, shares some simple, enjoyable ideas for how you as parents can support your child’s reading comprehension and development at home

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Help your Key Stage 2 child with reading

Although children may no-longer need you to assist in how to say words when reading aloud you can still assist fluency and develop their understanding

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5 handy tips for preparing for SATs at home

Tom is a father of three and parent blogger Diary of the Dad. Here are his top tips for helping your kids prepare for their SATs

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Making sense of Book Bands

Book banding is a popular way of organising children’s reading books

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What is the Phonics Screening Check?

The Phonics Screening Check is a test for children in Year 1. Children take it during June in a one-to-one setting with a teacher

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What is place value?

Discover how children are learning place value in school and different way to practise at home

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Homework help at primary school

Many primary schools now give homework on a regular basis. Our job as parents is to make this as easy as possible for our children

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Preparing your child for the new Multiplication Tables Check

Times tables will be formally assessed in primary schools at the end of Year 4 during the summer term

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Have fun with phonics

Using phonics is an essential ingredient in learning to read. This begins at an early stage and continues right through primary

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Brush up on spelling

Our role is to encourage our children to be spelling test ready by finding fun ways to practice at home

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