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Class: Gold 96.82%
Class: Shireen 98%
Class: Riddell 96.48 %
Whole School: 95.73%
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Summer Learning It won’t be a surprise for you to learn that all the research shows – including what we see in school upon return each year – that pupils can regress over summer. It’s not their fault. Six weeks off is a long time: compromising academic momentum and changes to routine. There are many things you/your child can do to support this: 1. Read. We cannot stress this enough. Arguably the most important thing of all. By creating the right conditions and routine, daily reading will enable your child to clock up extra reading miles – creating better readers, speakers, spellers, thinkers and writers! Plus, get the right book and it’s awesome entertainment! Younger pupils: read to them every night. 2. Numbots and/or Rockstars Keep their minds sharp and build arithmetical fluency. There is no harm with pupils in Year 2 & 3 also accessing their Numbots account and racing through the levels alongside Rockstars efforts. Pupils in Year 2 – 6 should all be accessing Rockstars – a little every day is better than long, one-off sessions. 3. Active Learn This is more challenging than 2. as it focusses on reasoning and problem solving. It may be best to allow your child time on this during the morning. What a difference it can make, though. Really great fun. 4. Spelling Shed Will really support writing if spellings become automatic as less brain power is necessary during the writing process! Practise spellings in isolation on Shed. It supports phonics, too – younger spellers! 5 Writing Practice keeping an emotive diary; write about a particularly fun weekend or day. Even basic sentence-level – it’s all great practice and supports handwriting.