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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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  • Home
    • Attendance
    • Newsletter
    • So How Was School Today?
    • Mission Statement
    • Preparing Your Child for School
    • Cyber Bullying: Some Advice for Parents
    • Staff 2023-2024
    • Board of Management
    • Student Council
    • Application Form
    • Szkoła Podstawowa Virgin Mary
    • Uniform
    • Headlice >
      • Infections in school
    • Reading Over the Summer
    • Help at home >
      • Online Resources >
        • Primary Online Database
      • HSCL
  • Class Work
    • JI 2023
    • SI 2023
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      • Reading 3rd Class
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      • Reading 4th Class
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      • Reading 6th class
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        • Other >
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  • School Policies
    • Policies >
      • Healthy Eating
      • Medical Conditions
      • Mobile Phone
      • Anti Cyber Bullying
      • Administration of Medicine
      • Custody & Separation Policy
  • School Programmes
    • Guide to school curriculum
    • Maths >
      • Maths Recovery
    • Reading Recovery
    • Science Blast
    • Suas Literacy
    • First Steps
    • Sacraments >
      • Our School Prayer
      • Policy-Religious Education
    • Library
    • Gaeilge
    • Computers
    • Early Start
    • Green Schools
    • HSCL
    • Incredible Years
    • Music
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    • Breakfast
    • Aisling Project
    • Story Sacks
    • Standardized Tests
  • Sports
    • Active School >
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