What Every Parent Needs to Know: How to Help Your Child Get the Most Out of Primary School - Hardcover

Young, Toby; Thomas, Miranda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241004721 ISBN 13: 9780241004722

Publisher: Viking, 2014

Synopsis

What Every Parent Needs to Know is the bestselling, step-by-step guide to the new primary school curriculum from Toby Young and Miranda Bondy.

What is your child learning each day in school? How can you tell if they are doing well or badly? And what can you do to help?

This practical, detailed and user-friendly manual contains absolutely everything you need to know about primary schooling and the new UK curriculum, ensuring your child will succeed and flourish every step of the way.

As parents we do the very best for our children in choosing the right school and preparing them for their very first day. But for the next seven years we have little idea what our child is learning, whether they are doing well or badly and what, if anything, we can do to help.

What Every Parent Needs to Know changes that. It gives us, the parents, the details, the thinking behind and a thorough understanding of the brand-new primary school curriculum launching in September 2014.

Taking us year-by-year through our children's schooling, we'll be given 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 we can do at home to help out

What Every Parent Needs to Know explains the confusing jargon while being otherwise jargon free and is written by two parents (who between them have nine children) with many successful years working in staff rooms and classrooms.

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 every step of the way.

It's the manual every confused, unsure or worried parent has been waiting for.

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) . Toby has 4 children, all currently at primary school.

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. Her youngest child is currently in Year 8.

About this title

From the Back Cover

** 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.

'Crammed with useful websites and ingenious apps while also offering patient and detailed explanations about what exactly the new National Curriculum consists of and how best to approach it' Independent

About the Author

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) . Toby has 4 children, all currently at primary school.

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. Her youngest child is currently in Year 8.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0241004721
• ISBN 13: 9780241004722
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432