What Are Fine Motor Skills? What Are Fine Motor Skills? As your little one progresses through their early years education, you may hear the term ‘fine motor skills’ used. A child’s Fine Motor skills are vital to their development. As Early Years teachers, [...]
Phonics Screening Check Phonics Screening Check The Phonics Screening Check is completed by children in the Summer Term of Year 1. It is designed to see how well a child can use and apply the phonics skills learned in F2 and Year [...]
Top 5 Easter Holiday Activities on a Budget Top 5 Easter Holiday Activities on a Budget If you’re anything like me, you start the first week of the School Holidays, full of ideas and inspiration for keeping the little ones busy but tend to [...]
5 Things to Look For When Viewing a Primary School It’s that time of year again. Schools are offering open days and tours and applications are going in for next September. As someone who went through this process last year, and who will be showing a [...]
If you would ask me as a Reception teacher to tell you the most important thing you can be doing to support your child at home, it would be to consistently read. As that first year of school goes on, the gap between the ability of children that read at [...]
One of the most common questions I get from parents is ‘What on earth is Phonics’ closely followed by ‘How can I support this at home?’ and followed again by ‘This wasn’t how you learned to read in my day’ and it’s true, this wasn’t how you or [...]
