Supporting Your Child at Home

At Wychwood, we believe that education is most successful when home and school work together. Parents and carers play a vital role in nurturing children’s confidence, developing positive learning habits and encouraging a lifelong love of learning. Our aim is to provide practical ways for families to support learning beyond the school day, helping children to build knowledge, fluency, independence and curiosity. This partnership is a key principle of our Homework Policy, which sets out our expectations for reading, spelling and maths practice at home.

Reading remains one of the most important things you can do with your child. Alongside regular reading practice, we encourage families to explore learning together through discussion, visits, books, podcasts, documentaries and hands-on experiences that bring the curriculum to life. Our subject curriculum newsletters are designed to support this by providing an overview of what children will learn throughout the year, together with suggested activities, places to visit, books to read and resources to explore at home.

Whether you are practising times tables, sharing a bedtime story, visiting a local museum or discussing a scientific discovery, these small moments can have a significant impact on your child’s learning and enjoyment of school. We hope the resources below will help you support your child and inspire them to become enthusiastic, confident and independent learners.

Please see below for a list of different apps that we would recommend for supporting your child's learning at home:

Numbots

Times Table Rockstars

One Minute Maths

Numberblocks