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Building independence as a reader ages 7-9

Your child will now be developing confidence and increasing independence not only in what they read but in what they choose to read. But they still need you to guide them. These ideas will help you to keep a good balance.

Encouraging reading ages 9 - 11

Encourage your child to keep on reading and developing their skills with these simple ideas.

Maths at home

Tips, games and activities to help your child with maths and times tables. Build confidence and prepare for KS1 and KS2 SATs.

Early maths skills

It’s never too early to explore numbers and counting with your child. Real life often provides the best opportunities to develop maths skills. There are loads of fun and easy things you can try to help your child to explore numbers, giving them a great start to developing early maths skills and concepts.

Maths skills ages 3-4

It’s never too early to explore numbers with your child. These ideas will help your child to explore numbers, giving them a great start to developing early maths skills and concepts.

Maths skills ages 4-5

These ideas will help your child to develop their confidence in counting and in recognising and using numbers. They will also help your child to explore shape, patterns and measurements in real-life contexts.

Maths skills ages 5-6

A lot of the maths your child will be doing is still practical and linked to their everyday life. These ideas will help you to further develop your child’s skills.

Maths skills ages 6-7

Your child will be developing their confidence in working with and using numbers, including working out mathematical problems or calculations in their head. These ideas will help your child to build on their understanding of maths, and to see how their maths skills can be used in daily life.

Maths skills ages 7-9

Your child will be increasingly fluent with mental calculations such as addition and subtraction facts and times tables. These ideas will help your child practise these skills in everyday life, and to learn to apply their maths skills and understanding.

Maths skills ages 9-11

Your child will learn to apply their number skills to more complex problems such as finding averages, converting measures, calculating percentages of amounts and using algebra. These ideas will help your child to further their understanding and develop their confidence in using these skills.

Phonics made easy

Phonics advice for parents. Videos and tips from phonics experts. Learn about the phonics screening check, how to say the sounds, reading with phonics

Learning to tell the time

Telling the time is an important skill in everyday life, but it can be tricky to learn. You can start to increase your child's awareness of time from a young age with simple activities and games.

Help with times tables

Learning times tables can be fun! Help your child learn their times tables with our free top tips, videos, quizzes and worksheets.

Encouraging writing

Expert storywriting advice for children aged 5-11. Read our top 10 tips to get your child writing and download our free activity sheets too!

How to write your best story ever

Top storywriting advice from Christopher Edge to inspire new children's stories!

Games

Free fun games for children. Play games with your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters Biff, Chip and Kipper. Games include pair pals and friendly faces and times tables.

KS2 SATs

Find out what will be expected of your child in the KS2 SATs and how you can support them at home.

School year guides

Find out what will be expected of your child in each year of primary school, and what you can do to support them at home.

What to expect in year one

Leaving Reception behind and moving into Year 1 can feel like a big step for both children and their parents. Find out what will be expected of your child in Year 1, and how you can support their learning at home.

What to expect in reception

The Reception class is about much more than colours and shapes, numbers and letters. This is the year that your child becomes ‘school-ready’; developing their independence, confidence, resilience and curiosity. Find out what will be expected of your child at school, and how you can support their learning at home.