Mathematics

Mathletics 

Canonbury is subscribed to the most used mathematics website with 3 million users and 7000 schools worldwide. This fantastic resource is offered at a greatly discounted price, which means we are able to offer the facility to all pupils from Reception to Year 6.

Pupils are captivated by the online mathematics mental maths game, where they are pitched against other pupils from around the world in real-time games using speed and skill. The more children use this, the faster and more accurate their mental maths skills will become.

It has over 850 activities for ages 5 to 18 years. Parents can sign up to receive a weekly report on their child’s progress and see the results first-hand. It provides a perfect link between home and school and includes activities for every area of mathematics.  Children are motivated by receiving points and being awarded certificates.

Teacher’s in school can set levels for individual pupils so that they will always be challenged and therefore will access mathletics at the appropriate level. Pupils and parents enjoy the instant feedback after each activity, showing where strengths and weaknesses may be.

Mathletics will occasionally be used to set homework tasks –but the most successful use will come out of pupils accessing the site 3 to 5 times a week on a regular basis, balancing use between the full curriculum part and live mathletics. Results have shown that over 92% of pupils achieve a success rate of 85% or higher once they have attempted an activity 3 times. We will be holding regular competitions in school for mathlete of the term, based on the number of certificates the children have earned.

If your child needs their log-in details please ask the class teacher for a copy. Your child’s log-in can be found on the inside cover of their homework book. This log-in will also allow your child to access the spellodrome activities.

http://www.mathletics.co.uk/

Tracey Boanas Mathematics Leader

Tracey.boanas@canonbury.islington.sch.uk

Literacy

We are often asked by parents and carers for ideas to support Literacy development at home. As well as supporting your child with their Literacy homework, reading everyday and practising spellings, you could also regularly access one of the websites below as they contain many interactive Literacy games.  This page will be updated as we become aware of similar websites that you could use.

Katie Hanley Literacy Leader                                                                                                                                                                  Katie.hanley@canonbury.islington.sch.uk

http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/                                                                                                                                                                                                   Lots of resources linked to phonics and reading, Ebooks to read together and tips to support your child with reading at home.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/4_11/site/literacy.shtml                                                                                                                            Interactive Literacy games for all ages. Topics include phonics, spelling, sentence construction and punctuation.

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/                                                                                                                                                          A treasure trove of Literacy resources, click on the Literacy icon and access a huge range of grammar and punctuation activities, interactive stories and links to other interactive Literacy activities.

http://www.poetryarchive.org/childrensarchive/home.do                                                                                                                                                        A great website for introducing your child to poetry, simply type a key word into the search engine and it will generate a range of poems tor you to read together. You will also find an online listening centre on which many of the poems have been uploaded.

http://durham.schooljotter.com/coxhoe/Curriculum+Links/Literacy                                                                                                                                        Access the Literacy section by clicking Curriculum Links and here you will find many links to fiction and non-fiction resources, sentence level and phonics activities.

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm                                                                                                                                                                                 A A popular website that is linked to the phonics programme we follow in school: Letters and Sounds.