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Please don’t anticipate you accept to do aggregate we suggest. Plenty of accouchement are beat back they appear home from academy and the aftermost affair they appetite to do is some educational 'exercise’.
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Between us, we accept nine accouchement and if we’d done all these after-school activities with aloof one of them, we’d apparently accept apprenticed the adolescent mad. But, as a accepted rule, your adolescent will appoint in these activities agreeably for the simple acumen that they’ll appetite to absorb time with you.
That won’t be accurate for ever. Afore long, they’ll adopt spending time with their friends, so adore your adolescent while you can. These are the aureate years, and some of the best adored moments you absorb calm will be back you’re introducing them to the apple and assuming them all its treasures.
Ages 3-4Before academy starts
You’ll be afraid how abundant you can advise a adolescent child. Here are bristles abecedarian abilities that your adolescent is accepted to accept back they alpha “big school”.
1. They should be “toilet-trained”, i.e. able to go to the bathroom by themselves, clean their own basal and ablution their easily afterwards.
2. Accomplish abiding they can get bare and dressed by themselves. Because so abounding accouchement haven’t learnt these basal skills, a 40-minute PE assignment generally agency 30 account of bathrobe and undressing (no exaggeration), abrogation alone 10 account for concrete activity.
3. They should be able to recognise their own names. A 2013 address by the Centre for Social Justice appear that one of the affidavit some accouchement abatement abaft in academy is because they alpha Reception clumsy to acknowledge to their own names.
4. Accustomed that they’ll be embarking on a phonics account programme about immediately, it’s accessible if your adolescent is already accustomed with the alphabet. Ditto for maths and the numbers one to 20. There are lots of accomplished alphabet and cardinal books, such as Alphabet and Counting by Alison Jay and ABC by Quentin Blake.
5. Your adolescent should be able to sit still for up to 40 account – or at atomic abide built-in in one place. This can be a lot harder for boys than girls. Calm time spent with your adolescent arena games, accomplishing jigsaw puzzles or aloof cartoon and painting helps.
5 means to accomplish it an accessible start
Visit the academy with your adolescent afore they alpha so it’s not an alien ambiance on their aboriginal day.
If possible, accommodated your child’s Reception abecedary beforehand. If they action you a “home visit”, booty them up on it.
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Read your adolescent bedtime belief in which the characters are starting school, such as Busy Academy by Melanie Joyce.
Have your adolescent memorise your adaptable buzz number. If, God forbid, they anytime get lost, they can ask addition to alarm you.
Try not to access into tears back you bead them off on their aboriginal day. Crying can be catching and you don’t appetite to set off the added parents!
Ages 4-7Reception and Key Stage 1
1. The best important affair you can do at home back your adolescent is in Reception is to apprehend aloud to them. At a absolute basal level, you are teaching your adolescent how to apprehend a book: to alpha at the beginning, to about-face the pages over one by one, to apprehend from larboard to adapted and top to bottom.
Listening to addition apprehend additionally helps your adolescent activate to accept that words are fabricated up of audible sounds. This is an important forerunner to reading.
Your adolescent is absurd to be set academic appointment in Reception. However, from absolutely aboriginal on in their aboriginal appellation they will appear home with a account book at an adapted level.
You should try and get into the addiction beeline abroad of sitting bottomward with your adolescent and their account book every day, or about every day – it’ll alone be for bristles or ten account in Reception.
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2. In September 2014, all primary schools will action a chargeless academy meal to every adolescent in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 for the aboriginal time. There are burdensome guidelines administering the comestible agreeable of boilerplate account burning so, in theory, you can blow assured that the aliment is healthy.
However, accouchement are captious eaters. Lunchtime can be abounding with adversity and in the aboriginal years cafeteria is generally the alone bit of the academy day your adolescent insists on cogent you about. We’ve accepted accouchement abashed of the banquet ladies or too afraid to ask for a drink.
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You won’t apperceive whether your adolescent eats abundant of what they are accustomed after award the adapted being to ask, which can be tricky, and this can be a acumen that some parents adopt to accommodate a arranged lunch.
But beware, accouchement are acceptable at elimination their cafeteria box into the bin, or giving the $.25 they don’t appetite to a hungrier friend.
And they are acceptable at cogent you that they are the alone adolescent in the accomplished academy not to accept whatever that month’s big-ticket and non-nutritious chic is. Some accouchement acquisition it absolute adamantine to eat as bound as their friends. It’s account authoritative an accomplishment to analysis that your accouchement aren’t constant an accidental trial.
NB: Best accouchement appear out of academy hungry, so it’s a acceptable abstraction to accept a bite ready.
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3. Learning multiplication tables is a chore, about 'fun’ the approach. Nevertheless, we cannot emphasise acerb abundant how important it is to adept them.
To help, use a accouter of arena cards for a bold of Multiplication War. Flip over the cards as admitting you are arena Snap. The aboriginal one to say what two alternating cards according back assorted calm (a four and a bristles = '20’) takes the cards.
There are additionally abundant times tables apps. One our accouchement enjoyed is Solving Maths, which has a slot-machine format.
4. To advice your adolescent accept that substances accept altered densities, ample an old artificial canteen with altered oils and liquids, e.g. honey, karo syrup, Fairy Liquid, water, vegetable oil, abrading booze and lamp oil.
Because they all accept altered densities, they’ll separate, abrogation them in layers on top of one another. Shake the canteen so they get alloyed up, afresh watch as they abstracted again.
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5. One of the key characteristics of the new civic class will be the admittance of computer programming from the aboriginal year of primary school.
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To advice your adolescent accept what a affairs is, pretend to be a apprentice and ask them to address some instructions for you to get from the kitchen to the bedroom. Acquaint them that instructions can accommodate alone the afterward commands: 'Right’, 'Left’, 'Forward’, 'Back’, 'Rotate Larboard 90 Degrees’ and 'Rotate Adapted 90 Degrees’.
After the adolescent has accounting them down, try them out and see what allowance you end up in. If it’s not the bedroom, they’ll accept to “debug” the program, i.e. carbon the instructions so that you do end up in the bedroom.
Ages 7-11Key Stage Two
1. History: Google Earth has an 'Ancient Rome’ layer. Under 'Gallery’, beat the 'Ancient Rome layer’ box and it afresh appears in your 'Places’ list. You can zoom in on buildings, temples and amphitheatres, either seeing them from aloft or from central in 3D.
2. Geography: The Ordnance Survey website has 104 'Map Attribute Flashcards’ to book out, bisected of which are the symbols for things such as 'Quarry’, 'Site of Battle’ and 'Public Convenience’ and the added bisected the descriptions of what the symbols angle for. Your adolescent can use these to comedy Pelmanism, in which you accept to bout the symbols with the absolute descriptions, or Bingo.
To comedy Bingo, bisect the attribute cards appropriately amid the players and accumulate the description cards yourself. As the caller, your job is to apprehend out the descriptions and the aboriginal adolescent to bout all their attribute cards with the descriptions is the winner.
3. Maths: Acquaint your adolescent they can spend, say, 25 per cent of their abridged money on sweets, but alone if they can acquaint you how abundant that is. Get them to assignment out what allotment of their alive hours they spent on screens on a accurate day, and how abundant beneath time it would be if they alone it by 10 per cent.
4. Science: Try an agreement to see if abacus alkali changes the temperature at which baptize boils. Or, if you don’t accept the adapted affectionate of thermometer, see if it takes best or is quicker to appear to the boil.
This gives lots of befalling for 'fair test’ discussions (same pan, aforementioned calefaction supply, aforementioned temperature of pan to activate with, aforementioned bulk of water, aforementioned starting temperature of water, aforementioned bulk of active ...)
5. English: Subscribe to an English bi-weekly for children. We like Aboriginal News, which comes out already a anniversary and gets accouchement acclimated to the abstraction of an absolute newspaper. Our accouchement adulation accepting column that’s addressed to them alone – an added attenuate event.
If your adolescent prefers the allure of the iPad you can become a agenda subscriber to Aboriginal News. Or alike a broadsheet bi-weekly if you anticipate accepting it on your iPad will accomplish your adolescent added acceptable to apprehend it.
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What Every Ancestor Needs to Know: How to Advice Your Adolescent Get the Best Out of Primary Academy by Miranda Thomas and Toby Adolescent (Viking £14.99) is accessible to adjustment from Telegraph Books at £13.49 £1.95 p&p.
Call 0844 871 1514 or appointment books.telegraph.co.uk
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