Tutoring cost are very high and I need some free learning material!

[Livvy111]

My Son is in year 3 (going to year 4 next year) and his teacher has recommended that he requires further intervention as he has great gaps in his learning. I’ve looked around and I'm ashamed to say I do not have the money to be spending on a private tutor.
I have tried on Google but there is so much out there and I don't know where to start, plus most websites come up with a paywall.
If anyone could recommend me anywhere simple and easy to use that would be greatly appreciated!

Is there a reason he has significant gaps in his knowledge? Has he had many instances of absence? Does he find learning a little more tricky than others do? If the answer is the latter, I'd be asking the school what they are doing to support him with bridging the gaps.

So why isnt his school providing interventions???

What are his gaps?

At that age, we were doing lots of reading and trips to the library.

Bbcbitesize for free resources. We used maths factor to help improve maths and that's 12.99 quarterly or £4.99 per month.

You can buy workbooks from Amazon or shops like The Works and WHSmith. We had timestables ones.

Make an appointment with the teacher/HT and ask them for help and advice and materials.

Is it reading,writing - spelling/handwriting or maths?

I'd second maths factor being good - https://www.themathsfactor.com/ for maths.

Khan Academy American site but free - as is BBC bitesize. If it's timetables https://www.percyparker.com/

If its actual basic reading you could look at https://www.nessy.com/en-gb or https://www.soundfoundations.co.uk/product-category/dancing-bears/ - they have a good spelling program as well.

If it's reading practise - libraries often run Summer reading challenges - or you try free https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/ or https://www.teachyourmonster.org/. Though for my DS is was his dad old comics at DGP house that made most difference.

If it's handwriting you can try on-line worksheet - check he's forming letters correctly or try something like this
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Write-start-Programme-Perceptual-Handwriting/dp/1855032457.

You can also find with quick search on amazon Key stage 2 books for various subjects you could sit and work though with him.

Little and often is usually best so if it's lots of areas then you need IMO start with one first - but we could never afford private tutors but we did little often at home with us and got lots of advice from primary section here and they slowly improved and have done every well educationally in later years.

The school should be offering interventions if he is very behind.

Twinkl is not much for a monthly subscription and has lots of things

CPG books are brilliant but I'd get advice first from school on what he needs help with. Could be anything from reading, handwriting, maths?

Twinkl is great.
Lots of good videos on YouTube too.
Agree about CGP books.

Twinkl is what you need.

Thank you all for the support, to be clear he has been receiving intervention from school and his class teacher but it's all group-based. The reason his learning has been impacted is because his school are not receiving much funding, many other children are also falling behind and their parents have simply began paying for tutors which I can not afford.

He is often in groups with children of severe learning needs so the work is never suitable for his needs. Its sort of like being stuck in the middle between the age-related classwork and work from a lower-year group which he does not need.

I use the BOND books with my child to work through a range of numeracy and literacy exercises each week. I buy them second hand on eBay.

It’s tough in school for those ‘fingernail’ children - those who are just about hanging in there on a good day. The really high needs children take up so much resource (and are the bottom 20% that Ofsted want the data on), so those ‘almost there until they’re not’ children don’t get the support they need to progress.
Talk to the teacher - what is the issue - not understanding in the first place? Missing building blocks? Lack of recall?
I really like White Rose maths and lots of it is free to start with, you’d just need to find out which yeargroup work he needs. Good luck!

I've just checked your channel and have subscribed. The little one loves watching youtube and was shouting the answers at his tablet.
I think it's given him a bit of a confidence boost.

Collins do books for each school year called "Targeted Practice Workbooks" which cover everything on the maths and English curriculum. If you can go through those with him, you'll be able to see which parts he struggles with and then maybe look for videos on those topics. Perhaps start down a year so that he can do more of it and gains confidence to move up.