The International Standard Classification of Education considers primary education as a single phase where programmes are typically designed to provide fundamental reading, writing, and mathematics skills and establish a solid foundation for learning. This is Level 1: Primary education or the first stage of basic education.

Learning Areas

• Read any material at home with your child
• Find:
• Familiar letters
• Identify letter sounds
• Words from their homework/reading book
• Find little words inside big words e.g ‘at’ is in ‘that’
• Writing
• Good pencil grip
• Practise mark-making/writing with a wide variety of media
• Correct letter formation
• Phonics
• Following the Jolly Phonics programme.
• Talking and Listening
• Talking is not as much of a problem as the listening
• Numeracy
• Pupils will develop confidence through practical, mental and written activities.
• Sort, count, and label sets within 10
• Name, sort, and create pictures and models with 2d shapes
• Make simple graphs and read information from them
• Using Mathematics
• Use mathematical language in context
• Begin to check their own work for accuracy
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• Count everyday objects
• Name shapes
• Spot shapes along the road on the way to school
• Count certain colours of the car the list is endless