To start teaching addition to 5 year olds, you need to remember 2 things. It must be fun It’s an everyday occurrence and part of life The reason I say this, is because it is easy to get caught up in the idea that addition is… only part of maths, which is a calculation …which …
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What are Number bonds? Number bonds to 10, 20, 100, or any number for that matter, are a mental maths strategy. They are an easy way to learn simple addition facts by learning numbers in pairs. For this reason, they are sometimes called ‘Number Pairs’. These can later be used to make more complicated additions …
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To teach spellings to a 5 year old can be stressful. To be honest, to teach anything to a 5 year old is stressful, let alone spellings. So, what do we do? More to the point, how do we do it? Let’s face it, what self-respecting 5 year old is going to sit there obediently …
Do boys and girls learn differently? The short answer to this question is yes! Of course, they do. However, the follow-on question from this is: how and why do boys and girls learn differently? To answer these questions, we need to look at this in a little more detail. So, let’s look at how do …
Year 2 is a very important year in a child’s life and what Year 2 learn in English will set the foundation for Key Stage 2. As Year 2 is the final year in Key Stage 1, this is the year where everything a child has learnt from Nursery up to this year is tested. …
Year 1 is an exciting year to enter, after leaving Reception, which by the end of Year 1 there are many skills to learn. Infants in Year 1 are now officially part of ‘Big School’. It is the first year of formal education. They will follow the National Curriculum and the guidelines set out by …
By the end of Year 2, children should know how to read fluently and be able to extract the meaning from what they read, ready for KS2. This will include non-fiction as well as fiction text. They should also be able to write well and neatly on the line with correctly formed letters. In terms …
Year 3 is the end of one key stage and the start of another. Your child now enters Lower Key Stage 2 and will stay in this key stage for the next two years. They will also be classed as a junior in the school and no longer an infant. With the intensity of Year …
This is the final year of Lower Key Stage 2. By the end of Year 4, children will need to be ready for the SATs programme which starts in Year 5. So they will need to gain the skills listed below. When children move to Year 5, they will enter Upper Key Stage 2 and …
By the end of Year 5, your little one will appear more mature and grown up. But this year is the calm before the storm. The excitement of Year 6 now looms on the horizon. Children this year look forward to being the oldest in the school next year, as they head for the finish …