Supporting from home

We believe that the best way to educate our children is in partnership with parents and carers.

Research across the world supports this view and shows that children who benefit from a close partnership between school and home perform much better at primary school and consequently do well at high school, achieving the best grades. Our own experience bears this out- children whose parents are able to spend time with their children reading to them, hearing them read, taking them to the library or helping them research topics that interest them- tend to do much better at school. We have talked at length with staff, parents and children about the best approach to supporting parents with learning at home and hope that our new home learning strategy is successful in achieving this.

We have produced a Reading Strategy Guide for Parents, which provides information about our Reading Bands, what we do at school and what parents can do to support at home.

Reading Strategy Guide for Parents >

At the beginning of each term, the teachers will send home a Term-on-a-Page, outlining the topics that are being covered in English, mathematics and in topic work, suggesting activities that you could do at home to support and extend your child's skills and knowledge.

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