‘What do they teach them at school?’
Ever wondered:
- What your child is taught at school?
- How your child is taught?
- If a chat with as teacher to explain how things work will help you support your child?
Well, here is your chance to have all of these answered. Ashgate Primary School offers a ‘Mums’ and Dads’ Learning Support’ programme.
The purpose of this is to provide parents / carers with the knowledge and skills needed to help children learn, in a friendly, unthreatening and a needs based weekly session.
Topics covered are on what you want covered and pitched at a level so that parents can see the progression through Early Years to End of Key Stage 2.
Topics covered can include:
- Just what do they get taught and why?
- Top 10 things your child needs to practice to make good progress
- Supporting reading; it’s not all about fluency
- Grammar! Musts, shoulds and coulds – ‘well, I didn’t know that’
- Why commas aren’t ‘times to take a breath’ and ‘why we don’t ‘add a zero’ when multiplying by 10
- Understanding how basic mathematics is delivered – it’s all changed…or has it?
- The teaching of phonics – 10 simple things you can do
- Apostrophe after the ‘s’; What is all that about?
- Science – what is ‘fair testing?’
- Assessment? ‘What are the reports really telling me?
The sessions run over a term and there is no need to book in to join us. To view when the next sessions are, take a look at the dates for diary/calendar dates or contact the school office.