Support your Child’s Learning

Children do best when parents and the school work closely together. Below, you can find some different ways that you can support your child’s learning at home.

English

Phonics and tricky words:

Words help your child connect phonics and choose the correct phonics in their spellings. Tricky words are words that don’t fit a spelling pattern. At Osidge, we use the pictures and words shown on these sounds mats. It may help your child if you use the same words. The tricky words for the phase are at the bottom of the sound mat.

• Phase 2 sounds and tricky words
• Phase 3 sounds and tricky words
• Phase 3 sound families and tricky words

Maths

Here are some useful ideas for how you can support your child’s mathematical development. There are ideas for problem solving and useful website links.