Resources for Parents and Carers of Primary and Early Years Children

As the person who spends the most time with your children, you are one of their most valuable teachers. However, we appreciate it can be hard to who where to start and how best to help.
 
This page has a variety of resources for you to dip in and out of with your child. For specific support and advice, please feel free to contact us via the link on our front page.

 

Learning Activities for Your Child at Home  

 

1. Phase one – Games to play at home 

This leaflet give ideas of games to play with younger children to help develop the pre-reading skill of listening to and identifying different sounds.

 

2. Phonics at Home

This leaflet explains how phonics is taught in school an give you some handy tips and games to play that can help your child develop their early phonetic knowledge.

 

3. Reading at home with your child

This leaflet gives some great advice about how to encourage and support your child when they read at home.

 

4. Rhyme Pack

This leaflet gives advice on how to use nursery rhymes and songs to encourage reading with your child. Nursery Rhymes are an important pre reading skill as they help children to recognise patterns in sounds and develop their memory.

 
 

Useful Web links:

The following websites have useful activities to use and support your child:

CBeebies – early years activities – phonics and early maths. Games for kids and early years activities - CBeebies - BBC


 

Phonics play – a variety of resources, both free and some which require a subscription to support development of phonics alongside school programs. PhonicsPlay - Resources


Oxford Owl – a variety of resources to support your child learning reading and maths. Resources are split up via age group up to age 11. Oxford Owl for Home: help your child learn at home | Oxford Owl



BBC Teach – Live Lessons – a variety of Live lessons designed for Primary aged children - BBC Teach Live Lessons for primary schools - BBC Teach




National Geographic – A variety of videos, activities, quizzes and resources to support a variety of national curriculum subjects including History, geography Science and Art. National Geographic Kids (natgeokids.com)
 
A handy pack of resources to support your child as they prepare for high school. pupil-resource.pdf (youngminds.org.uk)


  Jolly Phonics is a phonics program used in some schools. See their website below for some excellent free resources you can use with your child at home. They are great for learning sounds and practising letter formation. You tube also has some excellent Jolly Phonics songs available – just search Jolly Phonics on You Tube for songs linking to different sounds.



Twinkl is a great educational website with 1000s of downloadable resources. Some require subscription others are free. They also have an app which is downloadable and provides an alternative way to access their content. There are dedicated sections for teachers and parents and many of their resources are designed to fit with primary curriculum.
Click here to go to their website:  Primary Resources - KS2, KS1, Early Years (EYFS) KS3, KS4, Twinkl


ESOL Resources
Follow the link below for details on how to access an ESOL course in Tameside. ESOL in Tameside | GM ESOL