Unlock Your Child’s Full Potential with Expert Online Tuition! Empowering Year 4, 5, and 6 Students in English & Maths

At Oxbridge Learning, we understand the crucial role these primary years play in building a strong academic foundation. Our expert online tutors are dedicated to providing engaging, personalised support that not only boosts understanding and confidence but also sparks a lifelong love for learning.

Why Choose Oxbridge Learning for Your Primary Child?

  • Expert Tutors: Our highly qualified and experienced tutors are passionate about teaching and specialists in the UK National Curriculum.
  • Personalised Learning: We tailor every session to your child’s individual needs, learning style, and pace, ensuring they grasp concepts effectively.
  • Convenience & Flexibility: Learn from the comfort and safety of your own home, at times that suit your family’s busy schedule. No more travel!
  • Interactive & Engaging Lessons: Our online platform makes learning fun and dynamic, keeping your child motivated and focused.
  • Boost Confidence & Attainment: Watch your child’s confidence grow as they master new skills and excel in their studies.
  • Preparation for Key Stage 2 SATS: We provide targeted support to ensure your child is fully prepared for their SATs assessments in Year 6.

Give your child the Oxbridge Learning advantage – helping them to not just keep up, but to get ahead!

Course Outlines (Aligned with UK National Curriculum) English

The 11+ exam is a pivotal moment in your child’s academic journey, a gateway to the exceptional opportunities offered by grammar and top independent schools. We understand that this can be a challenging time for families, which is why we’ve dedicated ourselves to providing unparalleled 11+ tutoring that not only prepares students for the exam but also builds lasting confidence and a love for learning.

Year 4 English Course Outline:

Reading:

  • Developing comprehension skills: retrieving information, making inferences, summarising.
  • Exploring a wider range of fiction and non-fiction texts.
  • Understanding figurative language (e.g., similes, metaphors).

Writing:

  • Planning, drafting, and editing narratives, reports, and poems.
  • Improving sentence structure and varied vocabulary.
  • Reinforcing grammar: prepositions, adverbs, fronted adverbials.
  • Spelling rules and strategies, including common exception words.

Spoken Language:

  • Participating in discussions and debates.
  • Presenting ideas clearly and confidently.

Year 5 English Course Outline:

Reading:

  • Analyzing authorial intent and purpose.
  • Identifying themes and character development.
  • Interpreting complex sentences and challenging vocabulary.

Writing:

  • Crafting more complex narratives with descriptive language.
  • Writing persuasive arguments and formal reports.
  • Advanced grammar: relative clauses, passive voice.
  • Punctuation review: semi-colons, colons, dashes, hyphens.
  • Advanced spelling patterns and strategies.

Spoken Language:

  • Developing effective presentation skills.
  • Adapting language for different audiences and purposes.

Year 6 English Course Outline (with SATS Preparation Focus):

Reading:

  • Deep comprehension of challenging texts, including inference and deduction.
  • Analyzing author’s choice of language for effect.
  • Targeted SATS reading paper practice and strategies.

Writing:

  • Producing sophisticated and varied written pieces (narratives, explanations,arguments).
  • Applying a wide range of grammar and punctuation accurately and effectively.
  • Refining vocabulary choices for impact.
  • SATS writing assessment preparation, focusing on specific criteria.

Spoken Language:

  • Fluency and articulation in formal and informal contexts.
  • Engaging in collaborative discussions.

Mathematics

Our Maths tutoring focuses on building a strong conceptual understanding, problem-solving skills, and fluency in number operations, geometry, and measures.

Year 4 Maths Course Outline:

Number & Place Value:

  • Numbers up to 10,000.
  • Rounding to the nearest 10, 100, 1000.
  • Negative numbers.

Addition & Subtraction:

  • Formal written methods for numbers up to 4 digits.
  • Solving multi-step problems.

Multiplication & Division:

  • Times tables up to 12×12.
  • Formal written methods for 2-digit by 1-digit multiplication.
  • Dividing by 1-digit numbers.

Fractions & Decimals:

  • Recognising equivalent fractions.
  • Adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator.
  • Tenths and hundredths as decimals.

Measurement:

  • Converting units of length, mass, and capacity.
  • Perimeter and area of rectilinear shapes.
  • Time (12-hour and 24-hour clock).

Geometry:

  • Types of angles.
  • Properties of 2D and 3D shapes.

Statistics:

  • Bar charts, pictograms, and time graphs.

Year 5 Maths Course Outline:

Number & Place Value:

  • Numbers up to 1,000,000.
  • Ordering and comparing numbers, including negative numbers.
  • Introduction to prime, square, and cube numbers.

Addition & Subtraction:

  • Formal written methods for numbers with more than 4 digits.
  • Solving multi-step problems in context.

Multiplication & Division:

  • Multiplying up to 4 digits by 2 digits.
  • Short and long division.
  • Factors and multiples.

Fractions & Decimals:

  • Comparing and ordering fractions.
  • Adding and subtracting fractions with different denominators.
  • Multiplying proper fractions.
  • Converting between fractions, decimals, and percentages.
  • Rounding decimals.

Measurement:

  • Converting between standard units of measure (e.g., km to m).
  • Calculating area and perimeter of complex shapes.
  • Volume of cuboids.

Geometry:

  • Drawing angles.
  • Properties of regular and irregular polygons.
  • Reflection and translation.

Statistics:

  • Completing and interpreting information in tables, including timetables.
  • Line graphs.

Year 6 Maths Course Outline:

Number & Place Value:

  • Numbers up to 10,000,000.
  • Understanding order of operations (BODMAS/PEMDAS).

Calculations:

  • All four operations with increasingly large numbers and decimals.
  • Problem-solving involving all operations.
  • Targeted SATS arithmetic and reasoning paper practice.

Fractions, Decimals & Percentages:

  • All four operations with fractions.
  • Dividing fractions by whole numbers.
  • Finding percentages of amounts.
  • Ratio and proportion.

Algebra:

  • Introduction to simple formulae.
  • Generating and describing linear number sequences.
  • Solving simple equations.

Measurement:

  • Converting between miles and kilometres.
  • Calculating area of triangles and parallelograms.
  • Volume of cubes and cuboids.

Geometry:

  • Drawing shapes on coordinate grids.
  • Properties of circles.
  • Vertically opposite angles.

Statistics:

  • Mean, median, mode, and range.
  • Pie charts and line graphs.
  • Interpreting data.

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