Reading and Book Bags

All children at Kignsmead are given a named zip-lock book bag which contains their home school reading book and a book. 

We all know that if children read at home, they are more likely to be successful learners at school. At Kingsmead, we encourage children, parents, and carers to read every day and supply parents and carers with information sheets about how to best support your child at home. We always welcome feedback about your child’s reading experiences at home so please do use the yellow home school reading books to communicate with us.

Spellings

Children in Years 1 - 6 are given weekly spellings at their own level and are given time in school to learn them. We keep spelling books in school so that we don’t have any lost books or missed weeks of spellings.

All the spellings are uploaded onto this page of the school website so you can see your child’s spelling and support your child at home. 

Maths

At Kingsmead we know how vital maths is to our educational success and to our daily lives and we encourage children to practice some form of maths at home every day. From Nursery, this can take the form of counting different objects, steps or claps, both forwards and backwards. Children in Reception need to start recognising numbers, for example on buses and doors and continue counting both forwards and backwards and practise connecting the number of certain objects to the written number.

Children from year 1 to Year 6 have individual Mathletics logins that allow them to access Mathletics from home (see more about Mathletics on the Maths page in our Teaching & Learning section). Children can practise their fluency skills with Mathletics live and deepen their understanding through completing the activities, playing the games and watching videos  related to specific areas of maths that are all available on Mathletics. Teachers in KS2 (years 3 - 6) set work for children to do on Mathletics every two weeks. Children are encouraged to use Mathletics for a minimum of 20 mins, 5 times a week.

Maths Fluency

Children's fluency in number facts if vital to their overall confidence and achievement in maths and any practice carried out at home will improve this. Fluency in the addition and subtraction of small numbers, times tables facts and their related divisions should be practised, either verbally or in writing, on a daily basis. Teachers provide weekly fluency practice for children from Years 1 to 6.