Virgin Mary Girls' N. S., Shangan Road, Ballymun, Dublin, D09 T2X6.  
Phone:   018421614              Email:   info@virginmarygns.ie
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​How you can help at home

Check your child’s homework each day. 

Help her, but do not do the work for her. 

Make sure that homework is done at a table or desk, without distractions nearby. 

Ensure that written work is neat and presentable. 

Homework Reading: Allow your child to read aloud for you. Do not pressurise her about any word she does not know. Simply tell her the word and ask her to read the sentence again, perhaps returning to difficult words at the end of the reading session, to see if she remembers them. 

Outside of Homework time, you can help your child’s education at home in many valuable ways. See the school website – The document ‘Information for Parents’ has suggestions specific to your daughter’s current class.  

The benefit of reading can never be over-emphasised.  Read to your child, read with your child, and let your child read to you. Surround her with books!  Discuss the book she is reading with her. 

Games with an educational value are a wonderful fun way of learning e.g. family board-games, jigsaws, puzzles, card games, games requiring strategy and logical thinking etc. 

Help your child informally, to read the time, to be familiar with coin values and change, to understand halves and quarters. Such knowledge will help her Maths work. 

Monitor I.T. use. Ensure that some of your home software has a real educational value. Don’t allow too much inactive screen watching. 

Monitor television watching. Set limits on viewing time.

Make sure that regular exercise is part of your child’s life. 

​Finally, school-going children need a regular sleep-pattern and early nights!  

Why not take a look at http://www.lifelongreaders.org/ 

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Shangan Road, Ballymun,
Dublin 9, 
​D09 T2X6.
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