Preparation for SATs Year 6 is finally here. Emotions run high as your child makes it to the top of the school. This is a year of mixed feelings and by the end of year 6, your young learner will be more confident, independent and resilient. As they watch the children in Nursery and …
Year 1 is a very exciting year in a child’s life. What they learn in English will set the foundations for the many years ahead. They are now part of big school, following the same timetable, although they do get an extra playtime in the afternoon. This is a marked difference from foundation when they …
What do Year 1 learn in Maths Year 1 is the first year of Key Stage 1 and what Year 1 learn in maths, will set the foundation for Year 2. Children will no longer have access to free all day, they will now follow the timetable for the rest of the school and have …
What do Year 2 learn in Maths Year 2 is the end of Key Stage 1 and what Year 2 learn in Maths, will set the foundation for Key Stage 2. The Maths curriculum has changed in recent years and there is a bigger emphasis on application of skills. This means that children no longer …
https://youtu.be/9xC931Mk0pk Stone Age Boy – Literacy resources for Year 3/4 This half term in English, we are looking at the book Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura. I’m using this book, because it ties in really well with the topic of Stone Age in History and Materials in Science. As the focus in Maths is …
I haven’t got a timetable – what should I do? When your child is off school, the biggest challenge is to get them to do school work. Homework is bad enough, but school work too? What you need is a kinaesthetic timetable. Let’s assume they are going to be off for at least 2 weeks, …
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Factors and Multiples Factors and multiples cause a lot of confusion throughout primary school. This is how it works… Factors are the numbers you times together, while the multiple is the answer. So the factors of 6 would be: 1, 2, 3 , 6 (these times together to make 6) 1 x 6 = 62 x 3 = …
In Year 1, children need to understand suffixes, in particular those ending in -ed. These words change the tense of the sentence, when suffixes are added to the verbs or doing words. Therefore, their use in sentences also changes. For example: when the suffix -ed is added to these root words hunt -> hunted shows …
In Year 1 and 2, children need to understand suffixes, in particular those ending in -ing. These words change the tense of the sentence, when suffixes are added to the verbs or doing words. Therefore, their use in sentences also changes. For example: when the suffix -ing is added to root words, it shows that …
In Year 3, children need to understand that adding a prefix to the beginning of another word can change the meaning of that word entirely. When adding ‘un’ to the beginning of a word, the word changes to mean its antonym or opposite meaning. Learning prefixes also helps with decoding words when reading and when …