DIY tutoring year 4 - The School Run website
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2016 11:49 am
Hi all
My DS is entering year 4 in September and I am thinking of some small steps in his preparation for 11 plus. He attends an independent school so already has some focus on this but I wanted to start getting him into the framework of extra studying at home too.
From my research I have gleamed year 4 should be fairly light, with the focus on making the foundations as solid as possible so am going to be working on: times tables recall, reading, comprehension, spelling, mental maths and word problems (max 1/2 hour a night in addition to his school homework).
My issue is resources for this - I can get books for each area of work but I have seen a website called 'The School Run' which claims to have worksheets for all these areas and more and is only £130 for 7 years membership which would see DS for the remainder of his primary years and also help my DD who is going into Year 2 in September. I do think I will use a tutor for year 5 to take the lead on the prep but dont see it as necessary at this stage?
Does anyone have any experience of using this site and do they recommend it? Or if anyone has any other sites they use for worksheets/exercises I would be grateful for recommendations.
Regards
My DS is entering year 4 in September and I am thinking of some small steps in his preparation for 11 plus. He attends an independent school so already has some focus on this but I wanted to start getting him into the framework of extra studying at home too.
From my research I have gleamed year 4 should be fairly light, with the focus on making the foundations as solid as possible so am going to be working on: times tables recall, reading, comprehension, spelling, mental maths and word problems (max 1/2 hour a night in addition to his school homework).
My issue is resources for this - I can get books for each area of work but I have seen a website called 'The School Run' which claims to have worksheets for all these areas and more and is only £130 for 7 years membership which would see DS for the remainder of his primary years and also help my DD who is going into Year 2 in September. I do think I will use a tutor for year 5 to take the lead on the prep but dont see it as necessary at this stage?
Does anyone have any experience of using this site and do they recommend it? Or if anyone has any other sites they use for worksheets/exercises I would be grateful for recommendations.
Regards