Supporting Learning at Home

Reading and Phonics

Reading Resources

Phonics at Home

Here are a few activities and games to help practise different phonemes at home.

DJ Cow – Phases 3-5

Phonics Play – good for reading different phonemes in real or ‘alien’ words.

Spelling City – Fun ways to practise spelling different words. (Type in the words and then select a game – warning it is an American site so it’s best to pick the games that don’t say the words out loud).

Alphablocks – Cbeebies – Clips, stories and games.

Letters and Sounds – Games, ideas, phonemes.

Maths

Maths at Home

Parents’ Leaflets
Please find below this term’s leaflets on how to help your child at home with Maths.
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
Please find below various websites and apps which can help support your child learn and quickly recall important basic Maths skills.

Hit the button (Number bonds, Doubles/Halves, ÷/x facts)

Number Grids (Addition, Subtraction and Multiplication)

Times Tables

Number bonds (to any number)

Number bonds to 10

Number Bonds to 100 (and more…)

Counting…

In 1s

In 2s

In 5s

In 10s

Addition and Subtraction

For those of you that like something a bit more tricky…

Ryarsh Primary School – Times Tables Policy

At Ryarsh, the quick recall of multiplication and division facts (times tables) are viewed with high importance. The ability to recall these facts quickly enables children to answer related questions with ease.

It is therefore important that we approach the teaching and testing of times tables in a similar and progressive format from Year 2 to Year 6.

According to the new National Curriculum 2014 the expectation of times tables in each Year Group is as follows:

Year 2: 2x, 5x, 10x

Year 3: 3x, 4x, 8x

Year 4: 6x, 7x, 9x, 11x, 12x

Year 5: All x and ÷ facts (12×12)

Year 6: All x and ÷ facts (12×12) and related language/symbols e.g. % and square root

We have decided to follow a mountain profile building up the x tables in a methodical and progressive format, ensuring that facts are retained and revised along the journey.

These facts will be assessed through weekly tests, taken in a set time period of 5 minutes. Initially the tests contain 40 questions, extending to 60 questions closer to the summit.

Children keep a folder with their mountain profile and times table tests so that they can track their progress and know what they are working on. Children’s progress through the times table mountain is shared with parents through contact books.

There will be a central school display to celebrate children who reach the times table mountain summit. This will consist of a picture of a mountain summit and photos of children who have reached it displayed and celebrated here.

When a child has reached the summit, they then try to improve their time on the earlier tests to increase the speed of their recall, either by completing all earlier tests or by completing the ‘three peaks’ challenge.

Ryarsh Times Tables tests

The complete set of weekly times tables is given below. To use these files, open the file, press F9 to generate a new test and then print. In this way we can generate an unlimited number of different tests for each area of learning.

Please note – these tests are designed to test times tables knowledge, rather than to teach it. There are many ways in which children can learn times tables – for example, playing games, quick-fire questions from an adult, chanting tables, writing the tables out and using songs, websites or apps. This learning needs to take place before the knowledge gained can be assessed in a test.

The tests are given in the following order. Remember to press F9 once the file is open to generate a new test, and then print the page. The tests are not desgined to be filled in electronically on your computer – they are to be printed out and filled in with a pencil.

2x 3x 4x 5x 8x 10x test

6x test

7x test

6x7xtest