We know that parents and carers often want to find out a bit more about how to support their children at home. We have included some links below that we think may be helpful, and if there are any other topics you would like covered then please let us know.

Speech and Language

Speech & Language UK Progress Checker

Learning to Talk 3 to 5 years

Helping your bilingual child

BBC Tiny Happy People

Healthy Development

Children's Oral Health

Lunchbox ideas and recipes

Building healthy sleep habits

Early Education

NEW RESOURCE Starting Reception

Starting School

What to Expect in the Early Years Foundation Stage

Potty Training

At Little Apples Preschool we are happy to work with parents to support potty/toilet training.

Please see below for advice and our policy.

Potty Training Advice

Let's Go Potty

Potty and Toilet Training Policy

Managing Emotions

Parenting Tips & Tricks

Help managing temper tantrums

Helping your child with anxiety

Developing language through talk

Phonics and Reading 

 Phonics Presentation for Parents

Supporting your child with reading at home/How to use wordless books 

Pronunciation Guide Autumn 1

How to say your sounds Autumn 1

Pronounciation Guide Autumn 2

How to say your sounds Autumn 2

This is the progression of grip development although there are big differences as to what age children acquire the skills. A few children will jump stages while others go through a phase of using a combination of grasps.

Letter Formation

There are four letter formation families:
> Curly Caterpillar letters: a c o d g q e s f 
> One Armed Robot letters: b k m n p h r
> Long Ladder letters: l i t u j y
> Zigzag letters:  v w x z

Capital Letter Formation

Speech and Language

Learning to Talk 3 to 5 years

AUTUMN MATHS

Match, Sort and Compare

Providing children with a wide range of the same objects allows them to explore sorting and matching at a deeper level.

Think about the colour, size, shape and texture of objects to support children’s language development and descriptions.

Counting, Cardinality and Ordinality

Count objects (to 5) around the house and garden ...on a walk ....

-use a wooden spoon as a counting wand to ensure careful counting.

Remember – that the last number we say is how many we have altogether, that we count each item once, that moving items is a good way to count carefully, and that we can count things that can’t be touched.

Make collections of 2/3/4 items . can they make a collection of 'not' these numbers to.

Autumn Term Number rhymes – Enjoy a selection of these at home too!

The animals went in two by two - BBC Teach

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Once I caught a fish alive - BBC Teach

Here Is The Beehive | Count To Five | Super Simple Songs

 

 

Doodle maths letter and instructions (Spring 2025)

Doodle maths letter from DH

Doodle maths letter/instructions

 

 

 

 

Spelling Strategies

Phonics

Phonics screening check information for parents: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/phonics-screening-check-information-for-parents/phonics-screening-check-2024-information-for-parents-text-only-version

Reading

Supporting your child with reading at home

How to say phase 5 sounds

Year 1 Maths

Videos to support the teaching on addition and subtraction:

 https://vimeo.com/732387996?fl=pl&fe=sh - Introduce parts and wholes

https://vimeo.com/732388035?fl=pl&fe=sh - Part whole model

https://vimeo.com/732388064?fl=pl&fe=sh - Write number sentences 

https://vimeo.com/732388094?fl=pl&fe=sh - Fact families (addition)

https://vimeo.com/732388131?fl=pl&fe=sh - Number bonds within 10

https://vimeo.com/732388233?fl=pl&fe=sh - Addition (add together)

https://vimeo.com/732388276?fl=pl&fe=sh - Addtion (add more)

https://vimeo.com/732388330?fl=pl&fe=sh - Addition problems

https://vimeo.com/732388396?fl=pl&fe=sh - Find a part

https://vimeo.com/732388436?fl=pl&fe=sh - Subtraction find a part

https://vimeo.com/732388490?fl=pl&fe=sh - Fact families 

https://vimeo.com/732388550?fl=pl&fe=sh - Take away / cross out

https://vimeo.com/732388628?fl=pl&fe=sh - Subtraction 

https://vimeo.com/732388673?fl=pl&fe=sh - Subtraction on a number line

https://vimeo.com/732388730?fl=pl&fe=sh - Add or subtract 1 or 2

Year 2 Maths

 Videos to support the teaching on addition and subtraction:

https://vimeo.com/732387212?fl=pl&fe=sh - Bonds to 10

https://vimeo.com/732387173?fl=pl&fe=sh - Fact families addition and subtraction to 20

https://vimeo.com/732387121?fl=pl&fe=sh - Related facts

https://vimeo.com/732387078?fl=pl&fe=sh - Bonds to 100

https://vimeo.com/732387037?fl=pl&fe=sh - Add and subtract 1s

https://vimeo.com/732386935?fl=pl&fe=sh - Add by making 10

https://vimeo.com/732386825?fl=pl&fe=sh - Add three 1-digit numbers 

https://vimeo.com/732386768?fl=pl&fe=sh - Add to the next 10

https://vimeo.com/732386724?fl=pl&fe=sh - Add across a 10

https://vimeo.com/732386680?fl=pl&fe=sh - Subtract across 10

https://vimeo.com/732386638?fl=pl&fe=sh - Subtract across a 10

https://vimeo.com/732386587?fl=pl&fe=sh - Subtract 1 1-digit number from a 2-digit number

https://vimeo.com/732386557?fl=pl&fe=sh - 10 more 10 less

https://vimeo.com/732386500?fl=pl&fe=sh - Add and subtract 10s

https://vimeo.com/732386477?fl=pl&fe=sh - Add 2 2-digit numbers (not across 10)

https://vimeo.com/732386429?fl=pl&fe=sh - Add 2 2-digit numbers (across 10)

https://vimeo.com/732386388?fl=pl&fe=sh - Subtract 2 2-digit numbers (not across 10)

https://vimeo.com/732386350?fl=pl&fe=sh - Subtract 2 2-digt numbers (not across 10)

https://vimeo.com/732406422?fl=pl&fe=sh - Mixed addition and subtraction

https://vimeo.com/732406458?fl=pl&fe=sh - Compare number sentences

https://vimeo.com/732407526?fl=pl&fe=sh - Missing number problems