
What Every Parent Needs to Know
How to Help Your Child Get the Most Out of Primary School
Penguin Books Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 3. August 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
528 pages
978-0-241-97539-8 (ISBN)
Description
** Now fully revised and updated **
What is your child learning each day in primary school?
How can you tell if they are doing well or badly?
And what can you do to help?
This practical, detailed, newly updated and user-friendly guide contains absolutely everything the busy parent needs to know about primary schooling under the new national curriculum, helping your child to flourish every step of the way.
Taking you year by year through your child's schooling, What Every Parent Needs to Know offers simple explanations of:
- What they'll be taught and why (from phonics checks to SPAG tests)
- What they need to know at the start of each year
- What they should be able to achieve at its end
- The games and exercises you can do at home to help out
Not only will this guide help you understand your children's journey through primary school, but it will also help you prepare, encourage and nurture them.
What is your child learning each day in primary school?
How can you tell if they are doing well or badly?
And what can you do to help?
This practical, detailed, newly updated and user-friendly guide contains absolutely everything the busy parent needs to know about primary schooling under the new national curriculum, helping your child to flourish every step of the way.
Taking you year by year through your child's schooling, What Every Parent Needs to Know offers simple explanations of:
- What they'll be taught and why (from phonics checks to SPAG tests)
- What they need to know at the start of each year
- What they should be able to achieve at its end
- The games and exercises you can do at home to help out
Not only will this guide help you understand your children's journey through primary school, but it will also help you prepare, encourage and nurture them.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
362 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-97539-8 (9780241975398)
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Additional editions

Toby Young | Miranda Thomas
What Every Parent Needs to Know
How to Help Your Child Get the Most Out of Primary School
E-Book
08/2014
1st Edition
Penguin Books Ltd
€8.49
Available for download
Persons
Toby Young is the outspoken columnist who wrote the international bestseller How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. A high-profile and passionate education reformer, he co-founded and set up two primary schools and wrote How to Set Up a Free School (2011), and is Director of the New Schools Network. Toby has 4 children.
Miranda Thomas started teaching in 1990, coinciding with the very first national curriculum. She is now an A level physics teacher in Wiltshire, as well as being the Chair of Governors at her local primary school and a parent herself.
Miranda Thomas started teaching in 1990, coinciding with the very first national curriculum. She is now an A level physics teacher in Wiltshire, as well as being the Chair of Governors at her local primary school and a parent herself.