Additional Home Learning Opportunities.
Useful links for parents to support home learning:
School Provided Learning Portals
Purple Mash - Lots of fun and educational games.
SPAG.com - Improve your grammar skills (Y5-6)
10Ticks Maths - Improve your maths with 10 Ticks (Y3-6).
Phonics Play - Interactive Phonics games.
Mental health advice for those supporting children
https://www.annafreud.org/what-we-do/anna-freud-learning-network/coronavirus/
Kooth is a mental health and wellbeing online platform for young people aged 10 to 16 across the whole of Kent. The service is free and can be accessed at www.kooth.com. It’s a place to get advice, information and support 24/7. Young people can chat to a friendly qualified counsellor Monday to Friday between 12 noon and 10pm and Saturday and Sunday between 6pm and 10pm.
Accessing www.moodspark.org.uk or www.kentresiliencehub.org.uk to learn about mental health and find tips and resources to keep emotionally healthy.
Texting ChatHealth for support around physical and mental health on 07520 618850. The number is monitored Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
Kent Educational Psychology service has created a leaflet which gives practical support, information resources and websites, across areas such as parent/carer wellbeing, home schooling and children’s emotional health.
Coronavirus- advice for parents and carers
Remote home learning links -2020
Literacy
Talk 4 Writing - https://www.talk4writing.co.uk/home-school-units/
Story time - https://stories.audible.com/start-listen
Booktrust - https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/bookfinder/
David Walliams - https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/
English mastery - https://www.englishmastery.org/
Literacy shed - https://www.literacyshedplus.com/en-gb/browse/free-resources
Poetry archive - https://childrens.poetryarchive.org/
Maths
Mathematics mastery - https://www.mathematicsmastery.org/free-resources
Numberblocks - https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/help-your-child-with-maths
Science
Primary science - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary
STEM Learning - https://www.stem.org.uk/primary-science
PE
Boogie Beebies - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mvsc
Disney - https://www.nhs.uk/10-minute-shake-up/shake-ups
Super movers - https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers
Keeping Active at Home - https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers
Joe Wicks has been doing P.E lessons online at 9am and there is also BBC Movers (link below)
Eggchase.co.uk
Interested in Rugby? Have a look at this activity website to help keep the children of our community busy during this difficult time. There are a few surveys and a video challenge for them to complete. They can enter one or all of them, There will be prizes awarded to the individual with the best response as well as the school with the most entries.
RSPCA competition - most compassionate class.
https://education.rspca.org.uk/education/teachers/primary/compassionateclass/competition
Here are some Disney themed indoor activities you could add to your blog for children to do to keep active.
https://www.nhs.uk/change4life/activities/indoor-activities
Online safety
Be Internet Legends is a multifaceted programme developed by Google and Parent Zone to teach children the skills they need to be safe and confident online. We are evolving to support schools, pupils and families through new challenges and deliver content remotely. Find out more about our assembly videos and parent sessions.
https://parentzone.org.uk/legendshome
Additional Resources
BBC Learning:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons
Commencing on 20 April, BBC Bitesize Daily, as the service will deliver a tailored day of learning across BBC iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Bitesize website and app, BBC Four and BBC Sounds
BBC Learning:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/coursesearch/
This site is old and no longer updated and yet there's so much still available, from language learning to BBC Bitesize for revision. No TV licence required except for content on BBC iPlayer.
Oak National Academy
https://www.thenational.academy/
This brand-new enterprise has been created by 40 teachers from some of the leading schools across England, backed by government grant funding. It will provide 180 video lessons each week, across a broad range of subjects from maths to art to languages, for every year group from Reception through to Year 10.
Blockly
https://blockly.games
Learn computer programming skills - fun and free.
Science Jamboree.
https://thestemhub.org.uk/
Visit the STEM@Home and Ambassadors@Work tabs for the resources which are being added to on a regular basis.
Scratch
https://scratch.mit.edu/explore/projects/games/
Creative computer programming
National Geographic Kids
https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/
Activities and quizzes for younger kids.
The Kids Should See This
https://thekidshouldseethis.com
Wide range of cool educational videos
Tinkercad
https://www.tinkercad.com
All kinds of making.
Cbeebies Radio
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/radio
Listening activities for the younger ones.
Nature Detectives
https://naturedetectives.woodlandtrust.org.uk/naturedetectives/
A lot of these can be done in a garden, or if you can get to a remote forest location!
British Council
https://www.britishcouncil.org/school-resources/find
Resources for English language learning
Oxford Owl for Home
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/
Lots of free resources for Primary age
Big History Project
https://www.bighistoryproject.com/home
Aimed at Secondary age. Multi disciplinary activities.
Geography Games
https://world-geography-games.com/world.html
Geography gaming!
Blue Peter Badges
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/joinin/about-blue-peter-badges
If you have a stamp and a nearby post box.
Red Ted Art
https://www.redtedart.com
Easy arts and crafts for little ones
Toy Theater
https://toytheater.com/
Educational online games
DK Find Out
https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/?fbclid=IwAR2wJdpSJSeITf4do6aPhff8A3tAktnmpaxqZbkgudD49l71ep8-sjXmrac
Activities and quizzes
Twinkl
www.twinkl.co.uk/offer
Used by teachers and normally requiring a fee Twinkl is currently free for parents during the current situation.
Setting this up is really easy to do - go to www.twinkl.co.uk/offer and enter the code UKTWINKLHELPS
For interactive books and storytelling:
www.booktrust.org.uk - lots of suggested books, reading online and storytelling
www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk - online books and activities
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories
www.worldbookday - storytime online
www.topmarks.co.uk - online suggestions to help parents at home.
www.oxfordowl.co.uk - ebook library log in to get free access.
www.lovemybooks.co.uk - has resources for age appropriate books to share and activities.
https://thereadingrealm.co.uk - has learning packs for creative writing and book packs and also has a resource to make a reading bookshelf so children can keep track of what they have read.
www.scholastic.co.uk - has free activity packs on their website along with book suggestions. The American site has free learn at home resources.
