Investors In Pupils

Our work with Investors in Pupils targets is designed to raise children’s understanding of the wider world, develop key skills and encourage children to set and work towards their own achievements. This half term, in year one, we will all be working towards the achievement of the same target.

I will complete 10 minutes of reading, writing or maths practise at home every weekday evening.

There are several reasons why we have picked this target

1.    To encourage those children who already want to/do practise their skills at home – we want them to see how proud we are of their efforts.

2.   To encourage those children who are more resistant to adults attempts to get them to complete tasks at home.

3.   To allow you to see the progress your children has made and highlight any areas they may need further support with in preparation for parents evening.

4.   Most importantly to allow them to build up their bank of basic skills and grow in confidence in their own ability.

Each children has 18 spots to colour on their target frog and they will achieve a spot each time they hand in their reading diary showing a comment from an adult saying how they spent their ten minutes.  It could be ten minutes with their reading book, ten minutes working on their phoneme packs (to follow), ten minutes practising counting in different ways, ten minutes of adding numbers, ten minutes of storytelling, ten minutes helping you write a shopping list, practising handwriting, counting coins in your purse, the list really is endless.

We hope you will see the value in supporting your child with this target and will help them to achieve their reward for colouring all their spots by the end of this half term.

Thank you for your support

Miss Farrar and Miss Atwal