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What Every Parent Needs to Know

How to Help Your Child Get the Most Out of Primary School

Toby Young Miranda Thomas

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English
Penguin Books Ltd
15 August 2017
The one book every parent needs to ensure their child thrives at school, updated for the new curriculum

Struggling with the mysteries of phonics? Trying to get to grips with fractions for your five year old? Baffling curriculums and teacher terminology can often leave children - but mainly parents - perplexed.

What Every Child Needs to Know puts all of your worries to rest. It works through the school subjects, from early years to Key Stages 1 and 2, with a step-by-step approach to your child's education, offering new ways of helping at home to ensure that your child receives the best support.

Packed full of simple check-lists of what your child should know in each year group; suggestions for fun activities in the car and around the breakfast table; and useful reading lists, this essential guide will banish school phobia and add some flavour to learning in the home.
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Imprint:   Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 31mm
Weight:   362g
ISBN:   9780241975398
ISBN 10:   0241975395
Pages:   528
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  Undergraduate ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Toby Young is the outspoken columnist who wrote the international bestseller How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. A high-profile and passionate education reformer, he co-founded and set up two primary schools and wrote How to Set Up a Free School (2011), and is Director of the New Schools Network. Toby has 4 children. Miranda Thomas started teaching in 1990, coinciding with the very first national curriculum. She is now an A level physics teacher in Wiltshire, as well as being the Chair of Governors at her local primary school and a parent herself.

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