Early Level

Reading at Home for Primary Parents

A parent newsletter to support reading at home designed for nursery and primary parents.

Parental engagement newsletter, Sept 21.pdf

Project/Finding Out Tasks

This may involve things like recording the weather for a week or recording the family members who live in your home, or, this may involve bringing in something from home, asking questions of family members, making simple observations or finding the answer to a simple question.

If required, please help your child to:

Find a suitable item to bring to school.
Find the answer to a question / problem.
Answer any question set in their own words.

A task like this will link directly to work that is happening in class.

Reading

Parents are asked to hear their child read aloud and talk with them about the story.

Encourage your child to read with some expression (you may read the story to them first to model this).

If your child becomes stuck on a word, help them to sound it out or ask them to look for clues in the story or pictures to help. If they are still unsure, give them the word.

Ask them simple questions about the contents of the story, the characters and what they like/ dislike about the book.

You may want to play games with the vocabulary, e.g. make up silly sentences, play ‘spot the word’, look for long/short words, trace the shape the word makes, etc.

Below is an example of they types of questions you can use that go beyond simply understanding the text.

Questions Early Level.pdf

Phonics/Spelling

We ask that parents spend time at home reinforcing the oral practise of sounds, the actions and the blending together of 2 or more sounds.

Maths

You can assist your child by helping them to count, recognise and write numbers using fun activities. These may include:

Verbalise numbers to 10 using songs, rhymes and stories.
Count up to 10 objects verbally, e.g. 6 plates, 9 coins, etc.
Play board games using dice or that involve counting, e.g. dominoes.
Begin to read numbers to 10 in the environment, e.g. road signs, bus numbers, etc.
Begin to discuss larger numbers from their daily lives, e.g. door numbers, birth dates, ages of family members, etc.
Begin to recognise coins to 10 pence.
Begin to use the language associated with shape, position and movement, e.g. up, down, high, low, above, below, over, under, etc.
Begin to use language associated with size, measure and time, e.g. more, less, the same, lots, many, all, morning, afternoon, night, day, etc.

Big Maths

The following Learn Its should be practised regularly.

Big Maths Learn Its Early

Google Classroom

Every class in the school is using Google Classroom. You are encouraged to sit with your child as they log in and share the contents of their Classroom with them - a little like an online Learning Journey.

Clear instructions on how to access this will be given to pupils in class and each child will be provided with their own log in information.

Teachers may choose to assign homework for pupils to access at home through Google Classroom.

Parents are encouraged to assist their child to use their log in to access the information. (See Google Classroom page for further details on Google Classroom).

If it is not possible to access Google Classroom at home, access can be made at school at an appropriate time or a paper copy of homework activities can be provided.

Pre- Writing Skills - Information for Parents

Pre Writing for Parents and Carers.pdf

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