Get involved with National Numeracy Day 2021 and help your child’s confidence grow, with our top tips and free maths activities.
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Blog posts for: Age 4-5
Looking forward to the summer term: tips to help boost your child’s learning
What can we do to help our children to make progress over the term ahead? James Clements shares his tips to help boost skills and knowledge.
5 top tips to keep reading at home
It’s more important than ever to keep your child reading at home this term and over the summer holidays. Camilla Macoun shares her tips.
Oxford Owl Lockdown Learning Heroes Awards: WINNERS!
Meet the winners of the Oxford Owl Lockdown Learning Hero Awards: inspirational individuals who have made a huge difference to learning during lockdown.
Building kids’ resilience and confidence
How do you help build your child’s confidence and resilience? Teacher and child psychologist Jean Gross CBE shares her tips for helping children believe in themselves, and discusses how you can encourage them to be determined and enjoy challenges.
Book of the Month: The Perfect Fit
Win a copy of The Perfect Fit, a book packed full of positive messages about individuality and inclusion for young children. (March 2021)
Top tips from parents on sharing stories at home
Sharing stories with your child is a wonderful way to take them to new worlds, to share the pleasure of reading, and positively impact their educational outcomes.
World Book Day 2021
Join in this World Book Day with video sessions from some of your children鈥檚 favourite authors and our library of free downloadable activity sheets!
8 fun ways to learn about shapes
Shapes are all around us and there are many ways you can start exploring them with your child. Get ideas on how to help familiarise your child with different shapes in all sorts of contexts.
Book of the Month: All Aboard …
To celebrate the publication of the brand-new All Aboard series, we鈥檝e got three pairs of books to give away! (January 2020)
Mindfulness and mental health in children: five top tips for parents
How can you encourage mindfulness at home with your child, to support positive wellbeing and mental health? Liz Lord shares her tips for parents.
Time flies: helping your child learn to tell the time
Learning to tell the time using both analogue and digital clocks is still an important skill, but it鈥檚 something that children can find tricky to master. Louise Pennington shares ideas to support your child’s growing understanding of time.