What Every Parent Needs to Know: How to Help Your Child Get the Most Out of Primary School
Aug 2014 · Penguin UK
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The bestselling, step-by-step guide to the primary school curriculum from Toby Young and Miranda Bondy.
What is your child learning each day in school? How can you tell if they are doing well or badly? And what can you do to help?
This practical, detailed and user-friendly manual contains absolutely everything you need to know about primary schooling and the UK curriculum, ensuring your child will succeed and flourish every step of the way. Taking us year-by-year through our children's schooling, we'll be given simple explanations of:
- What they'll be taught and why (from phonics checks to SPAG tests)
- What they need to know at the start of each year
- What they should be able to achieve at its end
- The games and exercises we can do at home to help out
Not only will this guide help you understand your children's journey through primary school, but it will also help you prepare, encourage and nurture them every step of the way.
It's the manual every confused, unsure or worried parent has been waiting for.
What is your child learning each day in school? How can you tell if they are doing well or badly? And what can you do to help?
This practical, detailed and user-friendly manual contains absolutely everything you need to know about primary schooling and the UK curriculum, ensuring your child will succeed and flourish every step of the way. Taking us year-by-year through our children's schooling, we'll be given simple explanations of:
- What they'll be taught and why (from phonics checks to SPAG tests)
- What they need to know at the start of each year
- What they should be able to achieve at its end
- The games and exercises we can do at home to help out
Not only will this guide help you understand your children's journey through primary school, but it will also help you prepare, encourage and nurture them every step of the way.
It's the manual every confused, unsure or worried parent has been waiting for.
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About the author
Toby Young is the outspoken columnist who wrote the international bestseller Vanity Fair, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. A high-profile and passionate education reformer, he also wrote How to Set Up a Free School (2011) and co-founded and set up two Free Schools himself. Toby has 4 children, all currently at primary school.
Miranda Thomas started teaching in 1990, alongside the very first national curriculum. She has spent the majority of her working life as a secondary school science teacher in London, and is now an A level physics teacher in Wiltshire. Miranda is also a parent and the Chair of Governors at her local primary school. Her youngest child is currently in Year 8.
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