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