Parents' Zone

If you are a parent or carer, we hope you will find the web links below useful.

Some of the links are some suggestions for fun ways to learn (in Literacy, Maths and Science)that we thought you might like to try.

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Gloucestershire County Council Publication containing advice and guidance for families

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Parents' Resources

Articles written by practising teachers designed to help with the education of your child.

The Parents' Centre

Advice site for parents re choosing a childminder, parents employment benefits and lots, lots more……

SureStart Childcare

Where to find childcare in your area.

Information regarding Swine flu

The Health Protection Agency advice regarding Swine Flu

Annual Walk to School Week

Website dedicated to 'Walk to School Week' which is 18th to 22nd May 2009

Helping Children with Literacy Difficulties (dyslexia)

Gloucestershire now has a website for schools and parents concerning children and young people with literacy difficulties. There are leaflets that can be downloaded for parents and lots of advice, substantiated by rigorous research, on how schools can best help. The website has information clarifying the problem of dyslexia and explains that its identification comes about via assessment of reading and spelling over time in schools. It therefore answers questions that parents often have about 'diagnosis' and what to expect in terms of a support package (ie Wave 3) when children need additional help. It also gives advice on how staff in school should monitor children and the rate of progress that should be aimed for.

Parent Pages

THE national directory of services aimed at parents

Parent Link

Practical tips on helping with children's school work.

DirectGov

The latest and widest range of public service information from the UK government.

BBC Adult Learning

Lots of information about getting into learning.

BBC Parenting Site

Advice for parents of primary-aged children.

Friends of Rodborough School

Link to our Friends' website

BarBar - Professional childcare in Stroud, Gloucestershire

Afterschool club at the Rosary school catering for children from Rodborough !

Children's information service

Childrens information service (advice and information on all aspects of child care)

b4 & after school

Where to go? & What to do?

BBC Destination Impossible game for literacy (Grammar)

'Destination Impossible' is a game where you have to read the instructions to help your character around Skillswise City.

Ideas for the kids

Launched earlier this year, www.IdeasForTheKids.co.uk is free to use, is aimed at parents and families (rather than the children themselves) and its goal is to provide easy access to comprehensive, impartial information on child friendly places around the country.

Scholastic Clifford Interactive Story Books

Phonics fun for early readers

Woodlands Junior School Literacy Zone

The school has put together several fun online interactive activities here to help you not only improve your Literacy skills, but also to help you with your SATs Revision too!

BBC Times Tables Games

Coolmath.com

An amusement park of math designed for fun! Bored with math? Confused by math? Hate math? Yeah, Coolmath can fix that.

Count on Falling Numbers Game

Using fractions as operators on whole numbers

NRICH Money Maze Game

Go through the maze collecting or losing money as you go

Rainforest Maths

Interactive mathematics activities for ages nursery to Y6

Adrian Bruce Symmetry Activities

Innovations Learning Symmetry Game

Woodlands Junior School Maths Zone

There are several fun online interactive activities here to help you not only improve your mental maths skills, but also to help you with your SATs Revision too! These pages are aimed at 7 -11 year olds.

Woodlands Junior School Science Zone

This section of their website supports students with their Science Revision for their Sats and other tests. It contains interactive online science games as well as other interactive science activities.

Woodland Explorer

Explore different parts of a woodland

Kids Aware

Welcome to 'kids aware', the Gloucestershire Constabulary web pages written especially for the young people of Gloucestershire!

Cool Cosmos Ask an Astronomer

Do you have a question about a topic in astronomy or about an object in space? You may find the answer here.

Remembering Rodborough

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