Infants KS1

What is Citizenship? Citizenship is a subject that seeks to teach skills and values, confidence, rights and responsibilities to children, which they can apply both in school and outside of school. ...

The Citizenship course covers a number of personal finance lessons. Dealing with debt, saving for retirement, the pros and cons of buying on the Internet and ethical investment are all part of the ...

History is the story of people and events in times past. Children can begin to learn about their own place in history when we help them to learn about the past events and people that helped to shape ...

When it comes to school projects teachers often assume that children already know how to use a computer and word processing package. This is not always necessarily the case but, in general, most ...

There are many ways in which you can prepare your toddler for school and encouraging them to recognise colour is one of them. Colour is everywhere, and the more you show your child colours the ...

Shapes are all around us and so the best way to teach your child about shape is to point out shapes and discuss them together as you see them. Your child can start learning about shapes long before ...

Writing involves the use of many different skills including: holding the pencil correctly organising ideas forming letters using correct grammar punctuating sentences using ...

The Maths curriculum concentrates on helping children to do a wide range of calculations in their heads rather than on calculators. Your child needs to be able to instantly recall key facts or ...

PSHE (Personal Social and Health Education) seeks to raise the emotional intelligence of pupils by developing well-balanced children who have respect for themselves as well as others. One of the aims ...

Religious Education as a subject is taught in all UK public schools. While primary emphasis is placed on the teaching of Christianity, pupils are also introduced to other major world religions from a ...

At Key Stage 1 the National Curriculum states that your children's reading should cover many different genres; for example stories with familiar settings, stories from a range of cultures and ...

Most children have developed an interest in the world around them by the time they start school. They often have lots of enthusiastic questions about what they observe and at school they learn to ...

Storytelling is a fun activity that teaches powerful English lessons at KS1. This article discusses how this activity can meet all of the skills required of speaking, listening, group discussion and ...

Lots of children find spelling and grammar hard and this can decrease the pleasure that they derive from writing. Reading, writing, spelling and grammar are all interrelated and are taught as an ...

Flashcards are one of the best tools for helping young children to memorise and learn new information. They are easy to make, easy to use and a versatile resource for use in the learning process. ...