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Supporting Numeracy Skills

Being numerate means having the skills to use numbers competently to problem solve and think mathematically in everyday life. At 糖心APP Academy, all teachers are teachers of Numeracy; however, this is not done in isolation. Helping your child feel confident about Numeracy聽at home supports them with their learning at school.

Numeracy at home is equally important to developing life-long聽habits.聽Whilst you do not need to be an expert to help your child enjoy learning and success at school, there are a number of things you can do at home which can positively impact on your child檚 achievements.

Helping Your Child With Numeracy

• Don檛 tell your children that you were no good at Maths in school as this can reinforce negative views towards numeracy!
• Ensure that your child knows their timetables � these are essential and repetition will help to cement this essential life-long numeracy skill.

As parents, you can build your child檚 mathematical confidence. Give your child the opportunity to use and talk about Maths daily to help them become a mathematical problem solver, and develop lifelong skills such as:

• Estimation;聽 Estimate and take their own measurements – height, weight, shoe size. 聽Estimate journey speed, time and distance. 聽Estimate the cost of shopping.
• Using money;聽 Adding up the cost and paying for items. 聽Work out the savings on a reduced item.
• Making sense of and justifying ideas;聽 Question your child on how they have arrived at a solution to a numeracy problem. This encourages them to reflect and supports good numerical reasoning.
• Measuring; Follow a recipe independently, measure quantities when cooking.
• Calculating; Calculating the cost of a trip to the cinema and mental calculations.
• Time; Calculating how long something will take.
• Reading gas/electricity meters and understanding聽how the bill is calculated.

If your child has access to a smartphone or tablet computer, encourage them to download some Maths games or number quiz apps. 聽For example:聽‘Maths Pieces’, ‘Times Tables Rock Stars’.

These are just a few ideas to give you a starting point. Try to involve your child in as many problem-solving activities as possible. The more 榬eal� a problem is, the more motivated they will be when trying to solve it.

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Supporting Literacy Skills

Literacy is the combined life skills of being able to read, write, speak and listen effectively. 聽At 糖心APP Academy, all teachers are teachers of Literacy;聽however, this is not done in isolation.

Literacy at home is equally important in聽developing life- long habits in students at 糖心APP Academy. Whilst you do not need to be an expert to help your child enjoy learning and success in Education, there are a number of things you can do at home which can positively impact on your child檚 achievements in the Academy.

Helping Your Child With Literacy

• Ask students to tell you what key words they are learning at school.
• Read books for pleasure. 聽Read with your child and model good reading habits. Talk to your children about what they檙e reading and what you檙e reading;聽share your ideas to spark their interest. Shared and paired reading at home can foster a life-long love of books!
• Encourage a love of reading for pleasure such as comics, novels, magazines or newspapers (read the newspaper for what is on TV that night) � anything that will ignite聽their interest.
• Let your child choose what to read, rather than choosing what you think they should read.
• Make time to read together if you can. Read one to one with your child by asking them to read extracts from their book or a newspaper article.聽 This will not only encourage independent reading but will enable you to help correct any mispronounced words and allow you to offer praise for self-corrections.
• Watching the news/listening to the radio and discussing current/topical issues; encouraging your child to listen to everyone’s opinion without interrupting whilst offering their own.
• Help your child to work out what an unfamiliar word means by getting them to read the rest of the sentence and look for clues.
• Go to the library together and encourage your child to borrow something that interests them.
• Look at written work together which has been marked by the teacher and ask questions to your child such as 槞How could you improve that sentence?�
• Help your children to develop their vocabulary by suggesting more sophisticated words they might have used in your conversations, in a constructive way!

Additional Support

The Library is a state of the art facility open before school, break and lunch and after school with recommended reads, magazines and new stock arriving regularly. Miss Middleton is a fountain of knowledge on books and will help your child find the right book for them.