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Category Archives: Key Stage 1
Simple strategies to make spelling homework easy
Does your child struggle with spelling homework or sail through the weekly test without ever needing to learn the words? Our simple strategies will make your life easier and ensure your child is working to their full potential. … Continue reading
Summer School at Better Tuition, Urmston
Book your place on Better Tuition’s Summer School. [UPDATE – 26th June 2018: this is an archive post. To find out about Summer School 2018, please follow this link. Summer beckons and, as schools begin to wind down and enjoy less academic … Continue reading
What to Expect in Year One: Literacy
What to Expect in Year 1 Parents often ask us what to expect in Year 1. It’s very important to be well informed, so that you can support your child with school work. This is the first in our series … Continue reading
Posted in English, Key Stage 1, literacy, Maths, Uncategorized
Tagged literacy, numeracy, Year 1
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10 Ways to Help Your Year 1 Child Succeed in Reading and Writing
This week we are blogging about Year 1: what to expect; how to help and how assessment will be carried out. This is the first in our series of Year 1 posts, which follows on from our Nursery and Reception … Continue reading
Year 1 Phonics Screening Check: What You Need to Know
Year 1 phonics screening checks will be carried out in schools from 18th June 2012 for one week. Many parents are keen to understand what the checks are about and how they will be carried out – you can find … Continue reading
Posted in Early Years, English, Key Stage 1, News and Updates
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Pre-School Literacy Games to Play at Home: Part Three
This is the third in our series of pre-school literacy games for you to play at home with your child. Although these games are ideal for nursery age children, your reception age child will also enjoy them. View Part One and Part Two. Game Three: Bingo! … Continue reading
Posted in Early Years, English, FREE downloads, Key Stage 1, literacy, Pre-school, Reading, Top tips
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Pre-School Literacy Games to Play at Home: Part Two
This is the second in our series of pre-school literacy games for you to play at home with your child. Although these games are ideal for nursery age children, your reception age child will also enjoy them. View Part One and Part Three. Game Two: Guess … Continue reading
Posted in Early Years, English, Key Stage 1, literacy, Pre-school, Reading, Top tips
Tagged literacy, pre-school literacy, writing
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How can I make sure my child is reading ready for school?
Parents often ask the team at Better Tuition how they can make sure their young child is ready for school? The first thing to say is that not all children are ready for reading Heidegger’s Being and Time by the time they … Continue reading
Posted in Early Years, English, Key Stage 1, Top tips
Tagged Nursery, pre-school, reading, Reception
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Demystifying maths measures: how to help your child tell a metre from a litre
Why are maths measures important? For the teaching team at Better Tuition, maths measures are endlessly fascinating. Did you know there is a definitive kilogram kept under lock and key in France? Did you know a metre is actually defined … Continue reading
Posted in Key Stage 1, Maths, Top tips
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Happy New Year and a review of 2011 at Better Tuition (Part one)
The Better Tuition team would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year. Now seems to be a good time to look over the events of the past 12 months, and as you all know, there have been quite … Continue reading