What parents/carers can do to support and help the children?

Ages 0 - 5 years:

Parents/Carers should support and help to provide:

Exciting play opportunities using day to day home resources to nurture, care and develop the intellect of the children through hands on opportunities.

To encourage the children’s sense of autonomy, independence and freedom.

Personal, Social and Emotional: Interacting, communicating with others, songs, books, and lots of fun, listening and responding to their vocalization, sounds and words.
Personal care: cuddling, feeding, toileting, potty training, warmth, love, smiles and lots of touching that signify how special the children are.
Reading and listening: Parents to find convenient and comfortable time to read to the children whilst they are being held on the lap, or sitting on the floor or bed with soft teddies or cushions that drifts the younger children off to sleep during nap and night time.
To encourage the children to development their gross and fine motor skills: e.g. standing, pulling, holding, and reaching for an object, running, hopping, transferring, lifting, gripping, throwing, jumping, clapping, manipulating and walking sometimes instead of using the buggies or strollers all the time. .
To allow the children to play with messy resources that refines their Sensory experiences: playing with the hard and soft teddies, mobile objects, exploring texture like the soft toys, sand, dough, mixing colours, messing with colour through panting, colouring, size and shapes, tasting various food, drink, smell, pattern, weight and measure.
Encouraging Cognitive experience: spatial relationships, gathering, collecting, pouring, dumping, solving problems, cause and effect of their experiences with fun.
Literacy experience: in the home, speaking your language, other languages, singing and listening to music: linking sounds and letters and to begin to read and write, reading to the children, puppet language play during story times, adult-child conversations with an open ended question, exploration of musical instruments, making rhymes and sound.
Opportunities for Personal and role play: dancing, singing, movement, art and craft, imitating others, dramatic play, doll and animal play using home and naturist resources.
Allowing a flexible: approach for the children to develop at their own pace whilst rewarding them in the form of praises and encouragement at all times.

Ages 5 - 11:

Parents/Carers should support and help to provide:

Opportunities and experiences of later life by making provision for personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE), drawing on their children’ schools practices and encourage the children to enjoy learning doing school home work using our site to compliment their school work.

Parents to provide essential values, principles and knowledge that the children needs to be an independent educated learner with passion for self directed learning.
To support and work with the schools the children attends, and implement best practices on what the teachers recommends, be a good role model and helps engender an appreciation of human creativity and achievement in your children.
Parents/carers to range activities and learning beyond the curriculum specifications and help the children gain more knowledgeable, opportunities and experiences in all areas of the curriculum using the resources provided for at home, in the environment and through nature.
To support the children in developing exciting and creative ideas on their own that helps to promote their knowledge, understanding and skills when engaging in new experiences.

The areas of learning parents can support the children includes:

Numeracy and Mathematics

Help the children build confidence in numeracy and other mathematical skills being a precondition of success across the curriculum
Support and encourage the children’ numeracy and mathematical reasoning in all subjects so that they understand and appreciate the importance of mathematics using resources that are available around the home and in the environment.

To apply arithmetic fluently to problems, understand and use measures, make estimates and cognitively sense-check their day to day activities, work and chores.
Help the children apply their geometric and algebraic understanding, and relate their understanding of probability to the notions of risk and uncertainty when engaging and interacting with others, as a group or on a one to one with adults.
To explain to the children the rationale behind the cycle of collecting, presenting and analysing data.
To help the children, parents should understand why they should apply their mathematical skills to the children’s daily routine and non-routine problems. This should include breaking down more complex problems into a series of simpler steps when given directives to carry out any tasks, play and chores at home or in an enabling environment.

Language and literacy

Aim:

Spoken Language

To teach ask the children to speak clearly and convey ideas confidently using correct grammar and Queen’s English.
Parent s to justify ideas with reasons; ask questions to check understanding;
To help the children develop their vocabulary and build word knowledge;
Parents to negotiate; evaluate and build on the ideas of their children and not water down their suggestions and idea. To reward all efforts and successes.
To select the appropriate ways for effective communication with the children.
Parents to give well-structured, descriptions, explanations and develop their own understanding through speculating, hypothesising and exploring ideas on play and creativity. Using the above enables the children to clarify their cognitive skills and organise their own thoughts and ideas during play or learning.

Reading and writing

Aim:

Parents to develop their children’ reading and writing skills in all subjects in other to support their acquisition of knowledge.
For parents to support their children’s reading skills fluently, helping them to understand extended prose (both fiction and non-fiction) and encourage pleasure reading.
To promote wider reading by encouraging the children to use the library facilities and set ambitious expectations for reading routines at home.
To encourage children to develop their stamina and skills to write at length, with accurate spelling and punctuation.
To encourage and teach children to use correct grammar when speaking and writing.
To encourage the children to build on what they have been taught, expand the range of their writing and the variety of the grammar they use. The writing they do should include narratives, explanations, descriptions, comparisons, summaries and evaluations: such writing supports will help them to rehearse, understand and consolidate what they have heard or read.

Vocabulary development

Aim:

Parents should be aware that the acquisition and command of vocabulary are key to children’ learning and progress across the whole curriculum.
Parents should work on developing their vocabulary actively; build systematic approach to support their children’ current knowledge in speaking and writing.
Parents are to encourage children’ interest in word building; simultaneously to making links between known and new vocabulary and discussing the shades of meaning in similar words. In this way, children will expand their vocabulary choices that are available to them when they write or speak.
Parents to help their children understand the meaning of words in their comprehension and when reading across all subjects. Use the dictionary to check the meaning of words, use verbs and noun when writing and explain complex words to the children.
To induct children into the language this defines each subject in its own right, such as accurate mathematical and scientific languages.