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Leading learning at home isn’t always an easy option but it’s a great way to help your child achieve their potential. Teaching is not a magical process, although us teachers like to pretend that it is. A few simple tricks and tools will help your child learn more effectively and will empower you to be more creative with your teaching. Each week I will update my blog with new ideas to help you- feel free to add suggestions and ask questions in the comments sections.

The BOOK READING challenge

(I’m really sorry, but BOOK READING challenge was the best title I...

10 January 2021
Easter's Egg-xcellent Challenge!

Easter’s Egg-xcellent Challenge!

25 March 2021
Easter's Egg-xellent Challenge Winners

Well done to everyone who worked so hard with their word journal this month. As well as using the 'word of the day,' some people have been using fl...

08 May 2021
'WORDS of the WEEK' CHALLENGE! 1st-15th December 2021.

Hello and welome to your first ever 'Kelly Challenge.' My challenges often involve lots of work (sorry) but- to those galant pupils amongst you who...

02 December 2021
Competition winners!

Good evening, I'm sure that you are all on the edge of your seats in anticipation. Well, the wait is over and the results are in. 

A h...

14 December 2021
Words of the week/ Challenge time #2

This week, the children will be bringing home a mighty word list of common homophones. Homophones are very often hidden within the spelling section...

27 January 2022
And the winners are...

A huge well done to everyone who participated in our spring term 'Homophone Challenge.' The tests have been taken, results counted, double and trip...

07 March 2022
ANSWERS! NVR poster competition.

As you know, our NVR preparation is well and truly underway. To help the children learn their 'ANSWERS' method by heart, they are tasked with makin...

07 March 2022
Whizz Word Wizard Week. Week beginning 23rd May 2022.

The prizes are on order, the whizz boards have been polished, the pencils have been sharpened. Lessons during the week beginning the 23rd of May wi...

06 May 2022
English Key Vocabulary. Week beginning 15/08/22.

Welcome to 'English Vocabulary Challenge Week!' Hurrah. Challenge week means prizes which (as you all know) means books. Imagine long, hot summer d...

12 August 2022
... and the winners are...

I promised that I'd announce the winners of the 'Word Classifications' poster today and so... drum-roll please... 

Everyone has won a...

12 September 2022
Year 4 CHALLENGE! Week beginning 30.01.23 and 6.2.23

Year 4 students, you are cordially invited to participate in our 'Non-fiction Challenge.' Very soon, we will be looking at different types of non-f...

26 January 2023
Year 5 November Challenge. It's a really rounding experience! 06.11.23

Hello everyone and welcome to your November Challenge 2023. 

This month, we are really rounding out our work on rounding! Get it?! Lol...

06 November 2023
June Challenge. Fabulous Figurative Devices. Week beginning 24th June 2024.

Hurrah and huzzah, it's challenge time again. In our lessons this week, we have been learning about different devices used in English. You looked a...

15 June 2024
POETRY CHALLENGE! Beginning on Monday July the 8th 2024.

As you are aware, July is poetry month here at Sharp Tuition. We are learning lots of vocabulary associated with poetry, words like stanza, syllabl...

05 July 2024
NOVEMBER CHALLENGE!! Sentence types poster.

Hello you lovely lot and welcome to your first official challenge. In class, we have been learning all about different sentence types and have been...

14 November 2024
Super Spring Shapes Challenge. Year 5.

Okay, okay, so I promised no homework this week... here's a massive challenge instead.

You need to know lots of different things about shap...

05 February 2025
24.02.25. And the winners are...

Hello everyone and a HUGE well done to those children who took part in last week's poster competition. 

It was really hard to choose w...

24 February 2025