DD is age 6 in year 1, Ds age 5 in Reception at local state primary. I currently read with them every day- they get school reading books twice a week plus we have ORT/ Usborne/ other books at home. DS gets a sheet with 2 or 3 phonics per week to practise reading and writing. DD has a list of 5 spellings to learn also once a week. DD will happily chose a book to read to herself at other times, DS is less keen although he will read random things like cereal boxes!
Last week their school's Ofsted report was published and has gone into special measures. The findings were that pupils were seriously underachieving in reception/ks1 and that even though they made better progress in ks2, it was not enough to catch up with what they had missed in earlier years.
So obviously I'm a bit concerned about the effect this is/has had on my DC's learning. I think that I need to start doing more with them at home, to help them catch up or at least make the progress that they should be. I was thinking maybe half an hour each evening of some kind of structured activity.
I am going to try to find out from their teachers what levels they are at and if they have identified any gaps in their learning. In the meantime I was wondering if anyone could point me towards some good resources or suggest other activities that I can do to help support their learning. I'm not really sure what levels they should be at at this stage or even what they mean, so any easy to understand info about those would also be appreciated.