School's almost out for summer in the UK. Parents have done the last pile of ironing and started throwing away the old shirts, t-shirts...

Alien words - love them or hate them? Why do they exist? In 2012, the Phonic Screening Check was introduced to primary schools for pupils...

With the national Multiplication Tables Check taking place in June for children in year 4 (ages 8-9), we might question the requirement...

If there's one small thing a parent or carer can do to help their baby's literacy in future years, it is to provide access to lots of...

When I was at primary school, we spent a long time practising handwriting. When I was a new teacher, if children were writing sentences...

If you have a child in primary school, you may have heard them talking about the common exception words, tricky words or exception words,...

School spelling tests: love them or hate them? Do you remember spelling tests at school? I'm not really sure I do but for some families,...

If you have a child in Year 2 at primary school, you may have lots of questions about Key Stage 1 SATs (Standard Attainment Tests) and...

It's that time of year again when the Christmas ads appear, lights begin to twinkle, and people we meet ask our children what they would...

As parents and carers, a key responsibility we have is to pave the way for reading, even if we are not keen readers ourselves. Recently,...

There's so much more to communicating than just the words we use. Our eyes, facial expressions, gestures, volume and tone all work...

These are tricky times we live in and things have changed quite considerably for our children at their schools. I've heard so many times...

Whether you normally look forward to the long summer holidays or you dread them, this year is different in so many ways. We'll be...

Many schools send home reading books from the start of reception and some start a little before. Some schools start later and some don't...

It's very likely that, for at least the last half term, your child's teacher has been sending you 'home learning tasks' ranging from a...

It's May 2020 and we've been at home for nine weeks or so. We have a dog and a daily walk is a must for us but, with or without a dog,...

"Tommy Thumb, Tommy Thumb, where are you? Here I am, here I am, how do you do?" Peter Pointer, Toby Tall, Ruby Ring and Baby Small, too!...

Our reception children have been at school for over half a term now and it's very likely that they've been carrying a reading record to...