Supporting your children

An Introduction to Phonics

This course covers aspects that children will be studying at school, providing parents/carers with the tools to support their children in these areas:

• Key terminology relating to phonics
• Saying the sounds correctly
• Useful websites to support children's learning
• Importance of reading with and to children

Keeping Up with your Children - English

This course covers aspects that children will be studying at school, providing parents/carers with the tools to support their children in these areas:

• How phonics is taught in schools
• Spelling strategies
• Grammar
• Punctuation

Keeping Up with your Children - maths

An overview of how maths is taught in schools. Each topic looks at how children's understanding is developed as they progress through school and explains why things are taught in a certain way.

These topics include:

• The language of maths
• Calculation methods
• Shapes and measures
• Fractions