Supporting Learning
How can I support my child if we are at home for an extended time?
When children are unavoidably absent from school but are not ill, we have resources on our school website which we use and some general guidance.
The most important thing you can do with your child is to keep up with basic skills – keep them reading every day, practising their times tables or number bonds (for example on Times Tables Rockstars), and practising their spellings using Look, Cover, Write, Check, and their Handwriting using ‘Letterjoin’. If you do not have access to these resources for any reason, contact the school office and we can put a paper pack together.
As the next priority, please have a look at the ‘Topic Map’ on the class page of the website (there are links for each year group which look like dragons on our home page) – www.lyminster.w-sussex.sch.uk
As well as Home Learning ideas included in the Topic Map itself, it gives you an idea of the topics they are learning so you can use BBC Bitesize, or The Oak Academy, our recommended websites for Home Learning:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary#england
https://www.thenational.academy/pupils/years
Back on the class pages of the website, you can also find other advice for Home Learning which is specific to your child’s year group, and you can find a whole range of general Home Learning resources on this section of our website:
https://www.lyminster.w-sussex.sch.uk/childrens-hub/
If your child is expected to be absent for a longer period of time we will contact you regularly to check in with your and their wellbeing. If it is not known how long they will be absent, you are still expected to phone the school office every day to confirm how things are. If the absence is for quite an extended period of time, the Class Teacher will contact you regularly to discuss their academic progress at home.
Our priority will always to be to help make sure children attend school when they at all can, however if we agree that this absence is unavoidable we are happy to provide more tailored work or advice – please do discuss this when we contact you.
How can I support my child with Maths, specifically?
Check the topic webs on the website for your child’s class. These will include the areas of maths to be covered each half-term.
Support and encourage your child to regularly practise their mental maths bonds or tables and to complete weekly/half-termly homework tasks.
Use some of the links provided to access online resources.
Encourage your child to have a positive mindset, particularly if you did not have a positive maths experience at school yourself. Your child’s confidence in maths will be far stronger if they are able to persevere with a tricky problem, make and learn from mistakes, and make links across different areas of maths. Help them to break questions down into smaller steps, start from what they do know and go from there!
Talk to your child about how they work out answers and how they can check and record their thinking. This can be far more useful to their development as a mathematician than just knowing that an answer is correct!
Use opportunities in daily life to show your child how maths is applied in the real world. You could talk about prices and quantities when shopping and how much change you will receive. If baking, encourage your child to read the recipe and weigh out the ingredients accurately. You could ask them to check timetables of events or journeys and discuss distance and direction.
If you feel that your child is still struggling, speak to your child’s teacher about the methods being taught (see our Calculation Policy for details) and any specific areas that your child may need to work on.
Parent Workshops
Parent Army Workshop
Reading Workshop
Mental Magician Workshop
Tapestry
During your child’s time in Early Years Lyminster Primary School use an on-line system, called ‘Tapestry’ to record your children’s learning and assessments. Each child’s profile is full of many ‘wow’ moments and milestones that staff and parents capture during your child’s time in Early Years.
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