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Home Learning Ideas

Here are some links to activities and resources that are suitable for all ages in the school. We will update them when we find new things that we think will be useful to help parents and carers with home learning activities. 

Please be aware that while all the resources here are aimed at children in the junior school age range, staff are unable to check the content of anything that is live streamed. School recommends that parental supervision is required.

  • Summer Reading Challenge The all-new digital Summer Reading Challenge is now up and running with a new online platform. This year is all about having fun and reading anything that makes you happy - whether that’s stories, comics, joke books or information books.
  • Mixed: Government List of Online Education Resources for Home Education The Government have brought together an initial list of online educational resources to help children to learn at home. These websites have been identified by some of the country’s leading educational experts and offer a wide range of support and resources for pupils of all ages.
  • Reading: Jeff Norton's Story Time Read of his book Alienated Author and producer Jeff Norton is kindly sharing his new book 'Alienated' chapter by chapter on youtube. His site is updated daily (by 7pm) with a link to the days section. All chapters are staying up on his page too so you can keep up to date!
  • Reading: Read, Wonder, and Learn! Kate Messner, a former classroom teacher, forever-educator, and author of more than three dozen books for kids invites authors to read their books on her youtube channel. Grades 3 - 5 will be suitable for junior school pupils.
  • Reading: Scholastic Books Learn At Home Scholastic's American site has lots of resources and daily reading activities on their learn at home website, with grades 3-5 suitable for junior school ages.
  • Reading: Amazon Audible Audible say, 'Stories help - they entertain, they teach, they keep the mind engaged. For as long as schools are closed, we're open!' Here kids everywhere can stream an incredible collection of stories that will help them continue dreaming, learning, and just being kids.
  • Writing: Story Pirates University Live Streams Story Pirates University's video library features standards-aligned writing curriculum and livestream classes, all hosted by their expert teachers. Story Pirates will lead students through a collaborative writing exercise, which students can then use as a model for their own writing along with tools they provide.
  • Maths: Gareth Metcalfe's Home Lessons During School Closures Gareth Metcalfe came to deliver a maths training day at our school last year for schools in our area - he was fantastic and full of great ideas. He’s planning to deliver maths lessons each school day to help keep everyone learning and you only require paper and a pencil to join in!

Fun Science at home from Science Week

  • WOW Science Science games, activities, videos, experiments and links to websites.
  • PE - Joe Wickes' 9AM Workouts Our pupils have tried out Joe Wickes workouts before with Mr Wilshaw and they are great! Joe wants to become 'The Nations PE Teacher' while schools are closed, so he’s started daily P.E lessons for everyone online at 9 o'clock every weekday morning.
  • Geography: The Kids World Travel Guide The Kids World Travel Guide has facts and information about different places, the continents and countries as well as the oceans, rivers, deserts or mountains on our planet
  • Art: The Tate Gallery Kids This is the website for The Tate Gallery. It has artworks to look at online but also fun ideas for making. There are some interactive art applications and quizzes too like: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/games-quizzes/street-art
  • Art: Lunch Doodles With Mo Willems Kennedy Center Education Artist-in-Residence Mo Willems invites you into his studio, doodles, and teaches you how to draw Wilbur, the Naked Mole Rat and many other things! Mo is running a daily lesson at 10am which is accessible through his site.
  • Art: BBC Bitesize Art The BBC has a set of videos for art. There are a great range which give information about different artists as well as suggestions for activities
  • Music: BBC Ten Pieces The BBC chooses ten pieces of music each year and this weblink takes you to pieces chosen over the last few years. You will find stories, short films, performances and more for each. Why not draw a picture or write about the things you thought of when you listened?
  • Computing: Scratch Scratch is a fantastic online computing program we use in school, where kids can create all manner of things such as games, animations and stories.
  • Mixed: Learn at Home with Youtube Learn at home with Youtube has age related channels that may be useful. The age 5 and above is the best fit for junior school aged pupils.

Games are an important tool for learning. Playing games encourages strategic mathematical thinking as children find different strategies for solving problems and deepen their understanding of numbers. Click on the links below for fun maths games ideas which you can play indoors and outdoors.

  • 25 Fun Maths Games Here are some creative maths games for you to play indoors or outdoors.
  • Maths Playground This is a website with a range of interactive games to play online.
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