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.
- Letter Sounds: Introduce and reinforce phonetic sounds from all phonic phases.
- Phonemic Awareness: Helping children hear and manipulate sounds in words.
- Blending and Segmenting: Children learn to blend letter sounds to read simple words and segment words into individual sounds for spelling.
- High-Frequency Words: Sight words and high-frequency words- words that are not spelled how they sound.
- Letter Recognition: Introduce and teach children the letter names and alphabet.
- 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:
- Grammar and Punctuation:
- Sentence Building: Learning about what a sentence needs to make sense.
- Creative Writing: Using experiences to help write stories, poetry or non-fiction.
- Vocabulary Building: Learning new words and revisiting previous vocabulary.
- Comprehension Skills: Helping learners to understand things they read.
- Spelling: Learning spelling rules and spelling patterns.
Maths
Our Maths classes can cover a variety of mathematical concepts:
- Number Sense: Numbers and counting, the concept of quantity and place value.
- Basic Operations: Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
- Shapes and Measurement: Exploring shapes, sizes, and basic measurement concepts.
- Problem Solving: Encouraging critical thinking, through various maths challenges and puzzles.
- Data and Probability: Introducing data representation and interpretation of graphs.
- Time and Money: Exploring the concept of time, including reading clocks along with basic money concepts.
- 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.