Below you will find outlines of the core areas- Phonics, English, Maths and Science which can be included in our sessions. However, if you have specific areas you would prefer me to help with I can teach all of the other subjects studied in a Primary School.

Phonics

Phonics are the building blocks of language and the development of children’s English skills. Phonics is taught in all EYFS, Year 1 and Year 2 classes in the majority of schools. Below are some of the activities that we cover in these sessions.

  1. Letter Sounds: Introduce and reinforce phonetic sounds from all phonic phases.
  2. Phonemic Awareness: Helping children hear and manipulate sounds in words.
  3. Blending and Segmenting:  Children learn to blend letter sounds to read simple words and segment words into individual sounds for spelling.
  4. High-Frequency Words: Sight words and high-frequency words- words that are not spelled how they sound.
  5. Letter Recognition: Introduce and teach children the letter names and alphabet.
  6. Writing with Phonics: Practise sentence building/writing.

Phonics Games and Activities: We can teach many of these skills using fun, hands-on activities helping the children to be engaged and interested:

  • interactive games,
  • flashcards,
  • puzzles,
  • manipulatives
  • scavenger hunts

English

Our English sessions give the children the opportunity to learn new skills and revise previously learned ones. In our English classes we can cover:

  1. Grammar and Punctuation: 
  2. Sentence Building: Learning about what a sentence needs to make sense.
  3. Creative Writing: Using experiences to help write stories, poetry or non-fiction.
  4. Vocabulary Building: Learning new words and revisiting previous vocabulary.
  5. Comprehension Skills: Helping learners to understand things they read.
  6. Spelling: Learning spelling rules and spelling patterns.

Maths

Our Maths classes can cover a variety of mathematical concepts:

  1. Number Sense: Numbers and counting, the concept of quantity and place value.
  2. Basic Operations: Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
  3. Shapes and Measurement: Exploring shapes, sizes, and basic measurement concepts.
  4. Problem Solving: Encouraging critical thinking, through various maths challenges and puzzles.
  5. Data and Probability: Introducing data representation and interpretation of graphs.
  6. Time and Money: Exploring the concept of time, including reading clocks along with basic money concepts.
  7. Mathematical Reasoning: Encouraging children to explain their thinking and answers.

Science

These sessions may include:

  • Living things and their environments: finding out about plants and animals in the local area.
  • Animals, including humans: discovering different animal groups, learning about the needs and lifecycles of animals and humans, learning about the human body, digestion and keeping healthy.
  • Plants: looking at the types of trees and plants, discovering how plants grow and their lifecycles and the importance of plants for the environment and animals including humans.
  • Materials: looking at everyday materials and the materials used to make things we use every day, exploring ways materials can change through twisting, stretching, squashing, bending, cooling, heating and dissolving.
  • Seasonal changes: Observing the changes in seasons and patterns in weather and the natural world.
  • Earth and Space: finding out about the solar system.