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Useful Links for Parents
You can find advice and guidance on supporting your child through the following:
Children & Anxiety – Top Tips leaflet
Powys Family Information Service – July 21 newsletter
Well-being services – Powys – a comprehensive list of emotional health & well-being services available in Powys including contact details.
Good days in Unusual Times – a social story to share with your child to help discuss the current pandemic (from the Anna Freud website)
Bereavement resources (prepared by Powys Educational psychology Service)
Reading with your child – useful hints and tips on reading with your child.
Welsh Government – Education and Skills. Information on Additional Learning Needs, Curriculum & Assessment, pupil well-being, behaviour and attendance.
BBC Advice for parents – from homework help to Special Educational Needs, find out how to help your child at school. (Includes support for teaching at home during school closures)
Parent’s guide to depression – If you are concerned about your child
Recognising Type 1 diabetes in your child – Know the signs
Powys Catering:
Change4life – gives you ideas and recipes to help you and your family be healthier and happier.
Eat Well, Spend Less Leaflet
Healthy Lunchbox Leaflet
Free School Meal Vouchers – Leaflet
E-SAFETY: The following sites offer advice and suggestions for keeping children safe online.
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/
National Tests - Information for Parents
To find out about the current statutory tests for Years 2 to 9 and the new personalised assessments, please follow the links below:
School Term Dates
School Inspection Reports
Following our Estyn inspection and our Church in Wales (section 50) inspection, both reports have now been published and are available to view using the links below.
The Estyn inspection report is also available on the Estyn website.
Links for Children
Learning
What is Independent Learning? – Information for pupils in Year 5&6
Help for children
MEIC – a confidential helpline service for children and young people in Wales. From finding out what’s going on in your local area to helping deal with bullying.
Childline – Learn from Buddy how to stay safe and happy.
Children’s Rights – Wales website
Homework
MyMaths – www.mymaths.co.uk
Disease exclusion guidelines for schools
Communicable disease exclusion guidelines
Literacy and Numeracy Framework
The National Literacy and Numeracy Framework sets the skills we expect learners to develop within Literacy and Numeracy. These skills are practised throughout the curriculum.
The links below detail the expectation statements for each year group within each strand.
Literacy-Oracy_across_the_curriculum
Literacy-Reading_across_the_curriculum
Literacy-Writing_across_the_curriculum
Numeracy across the curriculum