Will you be makeing your DCs keep up their school work in the holidays?

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If so, what work will you set and how will you get them to do it?

DS1 is finishing year 3, very capable, but prone to poor concentration and laziness TBH

He reads well and enjoys that so will keep that up without any pressure from me and we will do the library summer reading challenge.

I am concerned that he was more or less top of the class at the end of infants but now seems to be decidedly average - which is fine if that's where he should be, but I think he is brighter than his written work shows, because he rushes it and is unfocused. I wondered if some sort of summer project might help him be well prepared for his new teacher in Sept, but don't want to make the summer one long fight. What are you planning?

Oh, Wynken, I'm sure you already know this, but if she is dyspraxic, improving the presentation of her work will be a big challenge.

What about teaching her touch typing as she may be entitled to a free lap-top in class / for homework as she gets older.

Thanks BTM, the laptop is a definite possibility but she refuses to learn to type properly which isn't helping things. Long term I think she will be using one but this is my final push before I give up.

Her writing has improved a lot this year ("read this Mum" no longer strikes fear into my heart !)and I think if she just would spend a little bit of time working on trying to keep her writing over by the margin, underlining things, using pen as she is supposed to, lining numbers up in the squares in her maths book, then it would look pretty much OK, which would be fantastic given her dyspraxia.

DS1 is at the end of Yr1 and a late Aug birthday. We won't be doing much formal work but I asked him if he wanted to make a scrapbook and he was very excited. I had to tell him to stop working on it last night as it was getting late.

I will be doing a bit of reading with him and recorder practice. If he wants to do some number work that's fine. He is always asking me sums so I ask him back.

May also send him on a "middle class" sports course because I think he would really enjoy it.

I want the three eldest(14,11 and nearly 8) to try a book by an author they haven't read before every week.
Th little one (4) is starting to read so have ordered her some 'storyworld' reading books from Amazon. i would have liked to have got something she could read herself from the library, but it doesn't stock anything for real beginners with a limited vocabulary .
The 8 yr old really needs to nail all her time tables before starting Y4.
We will be going to France for a fortnight too so hopefully that will improve their french