Crucial facts for teachers and parents to be aware of
The aim in this programme is to enable all school pupils up to 11 years of age to enjoy reading, handwriting, and mathematics.

But the serious side of school work needs to be made really enjoyable - and a session of active fun games such as these that follow will take away the drudgery of learning and ensure that school work is wholesome.

Here is a fun-making session for the tiny tots to start with.. Show them how to enjoy the walking, jumping, skipping, hopping, pushing (in pairs) holding a partner by the right hand and pulling, stepping and dancing, as an indoor session for them. Then roly-polys-and-up-with-a -jump, on pieces of carpet - Call out "Carpets away!" and run around to fill any spaces. Call "Stop!" from time to time - leaving the last one, each time, to miss the next runabout.

Sessions for the tiny tots should be indoors until it is pleasant outside.

That leads up to the seven year olds and older, who will be taking each half-hour session outside in the fresh air, and they will really enjoy taking the early sessions still further...
From now on everybody would be properly dressed for outdoor sessions: in plimsols, shorts and T-shirts... Not one single lession outside would be missed in spite of rain, sleet or snow. The over 7's enjoy the more vigorous daily outdoor sessions: they would be running, chasing, jumping over each other, scrambling between legs and dodging others, finally running in one large single spiral line of ever increasing size. Then, with a loud shout, the teacher would send them off to run to the far end of the field (or playground) and back to end the session, then
walking quietly indoors - puffing and panting and hardly able to climb up the steps - out of breath and completely exhausted.

Taking one session of this kind every day is the best way to help all youngsters to grow up with a feeling of camaraderie towards each other - each one having a healthy experience to remember.
Isn't this the best way to train young people? and to bring them up healthy in body and mind and quite able to take care of themselves in todays hurley-burley and sometimes nasty society.

In the school where I was the 'head' it was the happiest school anywhere.
This type of school work is yust what the country needs today if our schools are going to be the best in the world. But what about getting parent help?

Enticement of parent help will definately happen when Y.L.'s are learning to read, in a school where they get promoted to a higher reading group, ON THE SPOT, if they are doing well... and wont the parents want to help their young learner 'up the ladder' of promotion when they realise they can help dramatically!
Similarly with the learning of maths.
In the right sort of school, Y.L.s learn to work on their own, a lot of the time, using graduated sets of question cards along with home-made sets of structured cardboard apparatus that they need when 'Self Proving and Self Checking' their own work.
See Year 9 (Four operations of number) and Toppsy Turvy (Use of tallies)