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Early Years Foundation Stage	Schooling explained	Home education and home schooling

Phonics	Share your views and questions with others through the Forum	How maths is taught
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Choosing a school	Moving on at 11	Which way now? - choices for GCSE	GCSE options

How parents can help their child We have compiled a separate page on the site following email requests from parents. This gives parents information on how schools work and the best ways to support in the home environment teaching and learning done in schools.

Other ideas for helping your child at home Examples of topics

Goldilocks and the three bears	Food we eat	Design and weave	Eco topic
Recommended books

Successful readers have a strong foundation in awareness of phonics. This, coupled with the high frequency words, enables your child to progress with reading more quickly. How to help your child with phonics Phonics worksheets			Books to help with phonics

Downloadable worksheets for all ages

Start of cursive writing	Alphabet cards	Addition - tell a story 3	The first phonic sounds

Gravity	English revision – story writing	Fractions	Science revision questions

Festivals and celebrations. Schools celebrate in many different ways. Find out more about these festivals.

Recent news -

Select Committee report on Assessment and Testing
Five hours culture a week
Gordon Brown has denied that plans for McDonald's and other firms to run A-level topics would amount to dumbing down - insisting the courses would be tough and intensive.
Cookery lessons will be reintroduced to secondary schools under plans to combat obesity, the Government has announced.
Education and Skills Bill published 30.11.07
New programme to boost early writing, reading and maths skills
National Curriculum assessments at key stage 3 2007
Michael Rosen is the new Children's Laureate
5 hours sport a week for all children
New secondary curriculum
The government have published the Primary National Strategy’s new phonics resource. Letters and Sounds: Principles and Practice of High Quality Phonics.
Three new departments were set up by the Prime Minister on 28 June 2007. They replace the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) is responsible for improving the focus on all aspects of policy affecting children and young people, as part of the Government’s aim to deliver educational excellence.

Subscribers to Parents in Touch are welcome to contact me for individual advice and help at jackiebacon@parentsintouch.co.uk

Jackie Bacon

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