Category Archives: Supporting Learning At Home

The Inter-house Geography Competition – Try the KS2 Quiz!

Posted on May 20, 2012 by officedickens

This term Ms Adams, our Head of Geography, organised an Interhouse Geography Competition to encourage all pupils to learn more key geography facts. Everyone did brilliantly and lots of pupils won prizes for their new found general knowledge! A big … Continue reading →

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Reading Tip Of The Week – Words Words WORDS!

Posted on April 29, 2012 by officedickens

Real reading is about getting the message to be found in the phrases and sentences between capital letters and full stops but we do need to be able to recognise some individual words – it  the  and  up  etc. Children … Continue reading →

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Tiny Tim’s Maths Tips – Year 1 and 2 Addition continued…

Posted on April 25, 2012 by officedickens

The next stage is children producing more formal recordings using their own ‘blank number lines‘ (often referred to as BNL). Children are able to ‘count on‘ in ones (they do this in their heads but record their ‘working out‘) and circle the … Continue reading →

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Tiny Tim’s Maths Tips – Year 1 and 2 Addition

Posted on April 25, 2012 by officedickens

Children understand addition best when it is taught alongside subtraction. Furthermore learning is better if given  a context as mathematical concepts are difficult to grasp without them. For younger children counting people and objects (toys, buttons etc.) and questions such as … Continue reading →

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Reading Tips for Early Readers – Use those pointing fingers

Posted on April 22, 2012 by officedickens

  Beginners need to learn to point underneath each word as they read and understand that one word on the page corresponds to one spoken word. Long, multisyllabic words still have one point each. When you are sure your child … Continue reading →

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Supporting Reading At Home – tips for families!

Posted on April 4, 2012 by officedickens

At Charles Dickens School we are having lots of success with children learning to read when they are little and learning more and more as they get older. Parent support is always very important in all children’s learning, and especially … Continue reading →

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Tiny Tim’s Maths Tips – Year 1 and 2 Subtraction continued…

Posted on March 23, 2012 by officedickens

The next stage is children producing more formal recordings using their own ‘blank number lines‘ (often referred to as BNL). Children are able to ‘count back‘ in ones (they do this in their heads but record their ‘working out‘) and circle the … Continue reading →

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Tiny Tim’s Maths Tips – Year 1 and 2 Subtraction

Posted on March 23, 2012 by officedickens

Children understand subtraction best when it is taught alongside addition. Furthermore learning is better if it is given  a context. For younger children a scenario such as ‘I had five oranges and we ate two. How many do we have … Continue reading →

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Where’s Wally? The Charles Dickens Primary School Version.

Posted on January 27, 2012 by officedickens

As we watch The Shard go up and up, we keep wondering what London looks like from the very top! Well now we have our answer  – one clever photographer has been to the very top ( on that crane!) … Continue reading →

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Helping Your Child at Home!

Posted on January 24, 2012 by officedickens

There was an interesting supplement in The Times on Saturday about how to support your child to get the most out of school.  It has got us thinking about how we can use the website and office blog even more … Continue reading →

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