Multiply Programme

We can support you to support your children with their English and Maths homework. From early years to year 6.

Literacy Lab – The Literacy Lab sessions are an opportunity for parents, grandparents and carers to come and explore creative and engaging ways to help their children at home with reading, writing and oracy skills, learning about the literacy curriculum and how literacy progression is taught in schools.
Similarly to Meaningful Maths, we will provide an hour of learning and discussion with the adults and their children (if schools are able to accommodate) will join us for the last half an hour to engage in fun literacy activities, games and play, based on the theme of each session. Session themes will include reading, writing, spelling, grammar, drama and oracy.

Phonics for Parents – Phonics is an essential part of learning to read in the Foundation Phase and is an area that many parents are unfamiliar with or lacking in confidence. Our aim is to provide parents with an overview of understanding the terminology, sound charts, phonics progression when learning to read and helpful tips for learning to read at home with their child.
This course can be run over 4-6 weeks. Our information is based on the Read, Write, Inc method of teaching phonics, however we are aware some schools may be using alternative schemes and we are open to discussion around key elements you may wish to include additionally to support your school’s teaching methods.

Using Story Sacks – This is an exciting opportunity for Foundation Phase parents, grandparents and carers to use story sacks as a fun and creative way to engage their children in reading at home. The sessions will look at the purpose of story sacks and their components, key questions to ask for developing essential comprehension skills, use of open questioning, retelling and sequencing, using games in story sacks and creating and decorating a story sack of their own to take away in the final session. Each session’s learning will also build towards gaining an accredited certificate through Agored to show completion of the 6-week course – what an achievement!

Meaningful Maths – Meaningful Maths is a 5-6 week set of sessions for parents, grandparents and carers to learn more about their child’s math curriculum, how they learn maths and activities around how to support their child with maths skills at home. Our topics include number, four operations, fractions, time, shape and money with some extra time set aside for anything the group of adults particularly want to learn about outside of these areas. Each session, the adults join for an hour of discussion and learning and then (if the schools are able to accommodate it) their children then join us to try out activities around the week’s maths theme and play some maths-based games.

Tunes and Tales – We offer a fun and engaging set of 5-6 sessions where parents, grandparents and carers are able to join all the children in the nursery for a 45-minute session. We always start with a range of songs, then explore maths-based activities including arts and crafts, fun resources, games and messy play, then we finish altogether with a story each week.

Agored Courses – For 2-4 hours a week for 4-6 weeks, you can work towards gaining formal qualifications recognised by employers.

Using Story Sacks – This is an exciting opportunity for Foundation Phase parents, grandparents and carers to use story sacks as a fun and creative way to engage their children in reading at home. The sessions will look at the purpose of story sacks and their components, key questions to ask for developing essential comprehension skills, use of open questioning, retelling and sequencing, using games in story sacks and creating and decorating a story sack of their own to take away in the final session. Each session’s learning will also build towards gaining an accredited certificate through Agored to show completion of the 6-week course – what an achievement!

Tunes and Tales – We offer a fun and engaging set of 5-6 sessions where parents, grandparents and carers are able to join all the children in the nursery for a 45-minute session. We always start with a range of songs, then explore maths-based activities including arts and crafts, fun resources, games and messy play, then we finish altogether with a story each week.