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Support Organisations: Primary School Years

  • Advisory Centre for Education
    News and information for parents, school governors and teachers. Freephone advice line for parents: 0808 800 5793 (2pm- 5pm Mon-Fri)
  • DfES Choosing A School
    Arrangements for admissions are similar across the whole country, but they can differ quite a lot in some important points, including when and how you must apply for a school place.

  • Dfes Early Years
    Information on establishing and developing early years and childcare services & their implementation at local level by Early Years Development and Childcare Partnerships.
  • DfES Parents' Centre
    This site tells you about your child's education and how you can help.
  • DfES Parents Online
    Lots of information and ideas to accompany the Parents Online internet initiative.
  • DfES Performance Tables
    Find out the facts about your local schools.

  • DfES Reading & Writing
    This website sets out some of the main things we know about how children learn to read and write & describes ways that reading and writing are taught in schools.

  • DfES Standards Site
    Suggestions on how to achieve effective partnership with parents and how best to manage and use your home-school agreement.

  • National Curriculum Online
    The Government's definitive curriculum site for teachers - but handy for parents too.
  • National Grid for Learning
    Bringing together a vast and growing collection of sites that support education and lifelong learning.
  • OFSTED
    Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED), officially the Office of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools in England.

Have we missed something? If you know of a good support organisation or resource not listed in our support section, please use the links below to tell us about it.

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