Supporting your child at home
Information on this page via the links within the text are intended to guide parents in helping their children at home. Feel free to browse through the various links. If you would like any further help or support then please contact your child's class teacher.
Keeping Children Safe Online
Websites recommended by Cheshire Police to help parents keep children safe
Internet Matters - www.internetmatters.org
ParentZone - https://parentzone.org.uk/home
Digital Parenting Hub - https://www.vodafone.com/content/digital-parenting.html
NSPCC - https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/share-aware/
Protect Young Eyes - https://protectyoungeyes.com/apps/
Place2Be - Supporting Children's Mental Health
Place2Be are a charity supporting Children's Mental Health.
They have support materials available for parents to help in this important area of children's well-being.
See their website for their tips for parents.
Improving children’s and young people's mental health – Place2Be
Dragonfly: Impact Education - Supporting Anxiety Booklet
Relationship and Health Education
The scheme of work for Relationship and Health Education (including sexual health education) was updated after a whole school consultation to include the new statutory requirements and meet the needs of our school community. A copy of the scheme is available on the school website - Whole School Curriculum document.
The Department for Education have published a leaflet for parents to help them understand the expectations for children at a primary school level.
The leaflet can be downloaded by clicking HERE
Tests for Year 2 and Year 6
The Standards and Testing Agency have published a leaflet and short video for parents about assessments at key stages 1 and 2. They are promoting them across Facebook and consumer parenting sites. We thought it would be useful to share the materials with parents through our website.
Click HERE to go directly to the GOV.UK website which will give you access to video and the information booklet.
Further Information about Year 2 Tests and results from the Standards and Testing Agency can be downloaded by clicking https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum-assessments-practice-materials
Questionnaires for Parents
From time to time we ask parents for their views on various topics from uniform to changing the end time of the school day. One of the easiest ways to gather this information is via an online survey. If a survey is currently being run then below this text will be a link to go to the current survey. If the next item below is called National and International Information then there is no current survey available.
National and International Information
Sometimes articles and/or video clips will be published here to help make you think.
We hope you enjoy watching Sir Ken Robinson - our aim is to strengthen our children's natural creativity whilst maximising their potential in all areas of the curriculum.
READING AND PHONICS
Reading Tips for Parents - click HERE for more information
Phonics - Information to help your child at home
Click here to learn how to pronounce the letter sounds correctly.
Information online that gives guidance on the Read Write Inc. programme
Further phonic guidance video
This can be found by clicking HERE
You can watch the whole 5 minutes video or fast forward to approx 2 minutes in so you can learn how to pronounce the sounds in a pure way so that your children will find blending for reading, segmenting and spelling easier
Phonics Evening
Recently we hosted a phonics eveing for parents which was led by Miss Platt
Below are links to the PowerPoint Presentation as well as the commonly asked Questions (and Answers!) from the evening
We hope you find both publications useful
Access a pdf copy of the PowerPoint by clicking HERE
Access a pdf copy of the Phonics Q&A by clicking HERE
MATHEMATICS
Times Tables
Help your child with their Times Tables Practice by using the Times Table Rockstars App
Calculation Guidance - the links below will allow you to access documents that will help parents/carers understand how we teach children calculation in maths