Here are just some examples of sessions that we will complete with your child so you can get idea of what we do. Sessions will be tailored individually to your child’s needs.

Maths

This is one of my absolute favourite games to play with a dice. Simply draw out your grid using however far you want to go in place value, then add your names. Then, roll a dice and place a digit in a column. Keep going until one of you has the highest number and wins! It’s a great way to use comparative language such as bigger, smaller, greater than and equal to, and thinking about the value of each digit in the column it’s in. You can also do this by the winner gets the smallest number too! You can make it your own by choosing how many players and columns too. Such a great reasoning and problem solving activity!

At the beginning of every Maths session, I always do one of these excellent warm up slides from the wonderful White Rose Maths. They are brilliant with reactivating learning covered in the last session and revising other topics your child may have covered in class at school. They are also good for discussing how your child came to an answer using the correct Mathematical language.

Writing

Oh I DO love a writing prompt! My typical writing sessions, depending on the length of time, would usually start with a bit of handwriting practice. Then, we would look at a writing prompt together, and brainstorm some ideas. After that, we would start to write some sentences, focusing on what your child needs to work on, be it from simply adding capital letters, full stops and using finger spaces, or to the more complex such as using fronted adverbials, thinking about different types of sentences and even uplevelling vocabulary. The possibilities are endless! Finally, we would have a look at editing, where we would think about spellings, changing sentences around if that suits your child better, adding even more vocabulary and checking it makes sense. I do love a writing session!

Reading

Some of my reading sessions in the past have always been skills based, such as inference, retrieval, summarising, prediction… and so on! One session that really helps pupils with their confidence with reading, particularly if they’re not sure of new/unfamililar words, is a vocab session. I will focus on five words that I think may be unfamiliar to them in a passage that we will be focussing on by getting them to ‘skim and scan’ and highlighting the words in the text, then exploring their meanings and putting them into sentences, before having a go at reading the words in the context of the book.