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Remote learning: Fun ideas to help parents maintain their children’s core English and maths skills

February 18, 2021February 17, 2021Oxford Primary Leave a comment
Primary remote teaching and learning

We’re hearing from lots of you how challenging it can be to find the right balance to help parents support their children with learning at home during school closures, without overwhelming them. Here are just a few suggestions for simple (and fun!) ways parents can help maintain their children’s core English and maths skills, using […]

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Remote learning: 8 top tips to help parents support their children with phonics

February 5, 2021February 4, 2021Oxford Primary Leave a comment
Primary remote teaching and learning

For those children who are in the early stages of learning to read, one of your top priorities is going to be ensuring they keep up momentum while they’re learning at home. But for many parents, especially if they learnt to read differently when they were at school themselves, phonics is completely new – and […]

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Remote learning: 8 top tips to help parents support their children with comprehension

February 5, 2021February 4, 2021Oxford Primary Leave a comment
Primary remote teaching and learning

Here are some handy comprehension resources and simple ideas to share with parents to help them support their children’s reading comprehension during school closures.

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Smoothing the transition to secondary school in a pandemic year

June 16, 2020June 16, 2020Oxford Science Team
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Life is full of change, now more than ever with the corona crisis unfolding.  But life will go on, and we are now venturing into opening our schools and creating a new normal. At this time of year, I would usually be working closely with our primary colleagues to help with transition projects to reduce the […]

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How can you help parents and carers support their nursery-aged children with reading?

April 2, 2019February 25, 2020Oxford Early Years
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Reading to children from an early age is the best way of encouraging them to love books and reading. By reading stories aloud, we take them into a world that goes well beyond our typical everyday spoken language, and form a link for them between reading, comfort and love. We need to do everything we can […]

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Getting stuck in: a simple way to engage parents

May 16, 2017May 15, 2017Oxford Geography Team
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Like many schools, the majority of our geography department interventions occur in Year 11 with all hands on deck to ensure target grades are met and significant progress has been made (and can be shown!). As part of my role as Head of Department, I am seeking ways to try to avoid this mad rush […]

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Making parents into partners

November 28, 2016November 28, 2016Oxford Primary

Happy parents make happy children, and happy children arrive at school as persistent, engaged and reflective learners. So for a teacher to teach well, engaging with parents and carers is as important as engaging with each child. We all know that engaging with parents and carers is often a challenge for schools – what is […]

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Focusing your guided reading to get the best out of your weak comprehension, strong word reading groups

February 26, 2016October 9, 2018Oxford Primary

This is the final post in my series on how to group your class for effective guided reading. You’ll find my original post which takes you through using The Simple View of Reading to organise your class into guided reading groups here . In a nutshell children are organized into groups based on their strengths and weaknesses in […]

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Closing the achievement gap: the critical importance of parental engagement

December 10, 2015December 16, 2015Oxford Primary

In the primary age range, the impact caused by different levels of parental engagement is much bigger than variations in the quality of schools. The scale of this impact is evident across all social classes and ethnic groups. The Impact of parental involvement, parental support and family education on pupil achievement Desforges and Abouchaar , 2003 Closing gaps in achievement is an ongoing priority for all schools. Over many decades, both national attainment […]

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Starting school: Tips for engaging parents

September 15, 2015September 15, 2015Oxford Primary

However experienced, Early Years staff are always looking for new ways to engage parents as they know how vital that relationship is. I’ve included a few tips here – some I’ve tried and some I wish that I had! The new Oxford Owl Guide to ‘Your Child’s First Year at School’ can help with induction and developing that engagement. It is available online but a printed […]

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