How Parents Can Help
Building Learning Powers
at Woodgate Primary School
How can you help at home?
Resilience
- Demonstrate/model sticking at things even if they are difficult
- Talk about how you feel when you are taking on challenges
- praise your child when they persevere but also encourage them to take a break when they have had enough
- Help them find interests and activities that are really absorbing
- Talk with them about how they can concentrate and manage distractions better
Resourcefulness
- Encourage questions
- Demonstrate making links between different ideas
- Don't allow your child's imagination to shrivel up
- Help them to find ways of using resources such as reference books, dictionaries, the internet
Reflectiveness
- Encourage them to take responsibility for preparing for school
- Ask not what they did at school, but what they have learnt
- Help them to think about, and plan, activities
- Encourage flexibility and the ability to change a plan if necessary
Reciprocity
- Demonstrate/model being a good learner
- Work, play and learn alongside your children, enabling them to pick up good habits through imitation
- Make expectations of turn-taking and cooperation clear