Extension & Enrichment Activities
English
Please find below a selection of additional activities that may support your child with their learning:
- - the resources on this page will help you support your child with saying their sounds and writing their letters. There are also some useful videos so you can see how they are taught at school and feel confident about supporting their reading at home.
- - a practical way to further support your child’s reading knowledge.
- - a collection of 10 tales, often read by the author, that are suitable for 3-7-year-olds (though older children may enjoy them too).
- - a collection of 10 tales, often read by the author, are suitable for 7–11-year-olds.
- - covers everything from letters and sounds to reading full sentences. This interactive tool complements all synthetic phonics programmes used in schools and the computer version is 100% free.
- Word Searches - get your children to simply complete or make up their own word searches. For word searches on the move see if your children can spot words whilst out and about at the supermarket, on the way to school etc. Can they use the letters they have found to make up new words?
- Spelling Games - play word/spelling games like Junior Scrabble, Bananagrams and Boggle to focus on blending letter sounds to make words.
Maths
Please find below a selection of additional activities that may support your child with their learning:
- - 1-minute maths app helps children build greater number confidence and fluency. It’s all about targeted practice in engaging, one-minute chunks!
- -fun-filled games offering exciting new ways to practice numbers. 80 levels provide structured practice in addition, subtraction, counting, number bonds to 10 and more.
- - Times Tables Rock Stars is a maths programme that takes all the worry out of learning times tables and has a proven track record of boosting children’s fluency and recall in multiplication and division.
- Number Bingo - write down six numbers for example multiples of 2,5,10 or one half of the bonds to ten. Next call out questions such as 2x5, 3x10 or for bonds to ten 6+?=10. Your child can then cross out the corresponding number on their bingo grid.
- Number Snap - Get your child to make a set of cards one with answers, one with questions that match, for example 2x5 matches 10. Shuffle the cards and deal them. The general rules of snap apply, when a question-and-answer match, you shout snap!