How to help DD catch up a little over the holidays

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I have a 7 year old DD and recently went to a Workshare morning at her school. I know comparison is the thief of joy- but I was really shocked about how much she is lagging behind her classmates. There were displays of beautifully handwritten stories by other children on the walls, my DD had a scribble on a piece of paper pinned up, it was completely illegible. She also seems to have minor struggles with numeracy and spelling.
The school are aware of struggles to keep up but seem fairly hopeless at helping- it is a class of 30 with one teacher and one TA, and I feel DD gets overlooked a bit. Unfortunately, changing schools is not an option due to remote location.
Anyway- to cut a long story short- I have come away from the school with a mission to help her catch up as much as possible over the holidays... However I don't know where to begin and am flailing a little.
To anybody that has tutored their own children at home- how did you do it? I mean practically. I fell well placed to offer the support but do you need to have a prescriptive schedule with a certain amount of time allocated to an area each day? do you allocate a certain amount of time per week? or do you just casually thread learning into every day activities?
You can probably tell I'm panicking a little but I really do feel that this is a prime opportunity to offer her some gentle learning time at home so that she is ready for the next academic year. I wake up in a bit of a cold sweat thinking about getting to the beginning of September and her having fallen further behind, but I just don't know how to go about helping.
Just to reassure- I also fully intend to make the holidays a time for fun, friends and being a child, but with just an hour or so of hard work each day to make September less painful for her. Any advice hugely welcome. Thanks

When my child was struggling with his writing I bought the Speed up programme which was a book and a bunch of props - he had to do hand exercises/wall press ups and so on to wake up the muscles. And then lots of two handed pattern exercises on a double sided blackboard. When he got back to school they were shocked at the difference it had made.

Good morning
You sound like a lovely Mum, and your DD sounds like she has some challenges. I work in a SEN service in London and we have over 100 free videos for families in your position.
If you search 'Redbridge SEATSS' in You Tube you will find us
Then click playlists and you will find videos on handwriting, reading, spelling etc etc. lots of videos are 5-10 mins so you can quickly gain ideas. There are loads of interactive ways to learn that are not worksheet based.
I always say to families if you are struggling to learn something, you wouldn't want to do more of the same in a dry workbook fashion. The videos are free for any family in the same position, if you could click subscribe that would help us keep our training free for families, but you don't have to.
I would also recommend making an appointment with the Senco to discuss what has / is happening to help unpick why your DD is struggling. Good luck and remember to have some fun when learning.

This has probably already been posted but the summer reading challenge was quite popular with my DDs at that age. Sign up at the library. I'd also really make sure you include some really simple, confidence boosting activities. Over the years I've done extra maths with my DD and found that really what I wanted to do was to make her really confident in the basics; consolidate what she should know. I also put little envelopes at certain points throughout the work book with funny notes or a reward like 'Let's go out for an ice cream'.

Fiveminutemum on Instagram has lots of ideas for learning through fun. My girls aged 6 and 7 love it whenever I do one of her games, and they're learning without realising it. Given its the school holidays I'd be inclined to not make her feel like she isnt getting a break from learning, so maybe the games route would be the way to go

@Makegoodchoices thanks for the recommendation, I will buy the book and definitely give it a go. It sounds great because of the movement and props element. Could help hold attention longer!

@Jazjoke what a lovely, free resource! Thank you for sharing these, they look great and I have subscribed. Will have a good look through the videos later today.

What have school said about her attainment? Did she pass her phonic screening? Is she working at ARE? I would want a meeting with the school to find out more about strategies they can put in place that you can replicate at home.

One of the things I’d be careful of, is that if she is dyslexic she will probably need to learn in a different way. For example my daughter had no phonological awareness so sounding out a word would not help her to spell it.

Could you do the library reading challenge? Times tables rock stars is good and I’m sure hand writing practice would
help but I would ask school what they suggest?