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How you can help your child at home?


  1. Before entering the Nursery it would be helpful if your child was:
    a. Toilet trained (barring the occasional accident)
    b. Used to listening to stories
    c. Used to looking at books
    d. Used to talking to people
    e. Have had children to play with them or been to a mother and toddler group
  2. The next step would be self-help skills:
    a. Managing on the toilet
    b. Blowing their nose
    c. Putting on their plimsolls
    The Nursery staff will also help to teach these skills.
  3. Once established in the Nursery:
    a. Display their craft offerings in pride of place
    b. Talk about the current project
    c. Bring little items to do with the project to school
    d. Make sure their clothes' labels have not washed out
    e. Make sure their school coat is in school to wear in the school playground.
  4. Once they begin to read:
    a. Hear them read for just five minutes each evening.
    b. Talk to them about their book
  5. Once number awareness is established:
    a. Ask them to put a number of things on the table
    b. Count going up the stairs
  6. Reception:
    a. Make sure gymnastics, swimming etc. clothes are in school on the right day
    b. Check their clothes are still labelled
    c. Remember to return their reading book each morning
    d. Sew swimming and gymnastic badges on costume and kit
  7. Years 1:
    a. Have game's kit in school on the right day
    b. Count in 2's, 5's and 10's
  8. Years 2, 3 and 4:
    a. Supervise homework, help learn 2, 5, 10 and then 4 and 11 times table
    b. Hear read for 10 minutes each evening
    c. Help learn weekly spellings and tables
  9. Years 5/6:
    a. If they use a computer at home please supervise their choice of programmes. Similarly television programmes are not always suitable
    b. Keep to a suitable bed time. Don't believe the time their friends say they go to bed!
    c. Encourage them to look after their personal school possessions and return homework on time.

All common sense ideas but they help with building up your child's security and confidence.