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Phonics is based upon learning the 44 phonemes and how to blend them together to make words. This printable PDF Phoneme Chart will help guide you.

Children who don’t get enough sleep are more likely to have problems with attention, emotional control, and peer relationships.

Social, emotional and behavioural development continues throughout childhood. This printable PDF highlights the main milestones from ages 2 to 7.

What is resilience and how can it benefit our children?

Resilience is more than just being “able to cope” or being “tough”, it is more to do with fostering the social and emotional strength that is necessary to be self-aware and emotionally literate — skills that are hard to define and target, especially in younger children.

From an early age, the skill of inferring and making connections with the reading information is crucial. When reading with your children, use the recommended discussion topics to improve reading comprehension. 

High Frequency Words appear very often in written text (e.g. 'it', 'and') while tricky words also appear frequently, but don't follow normal phonetic patterns and can't be sounded-out (e.g. 'the'). Help your child get ahead in their reading with this printable list of Phase 2 — Phase 5 high frequency and tricky words.

Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Early Learning Goals are standards to assess the learning and development of children in England, from birth to 5 years old.

These Early Years Outcomes focus on the expected development during birth to 11 months of age.

These Early Years Outcomes focus on the expected development during 8 - 20 months of age.

These Early Years Outcomes focus on the expected development during 40 to 60+ months of age. 

These Early Years Outcomes focus on the expected development during 30 - 50 months of age.