Home Learning

Started home schooling? Wondering where to start? or how to plan a lesson?

Each day you'll find a new set of daily activities to get involved with. Qualified Twinkl teachers will provide book readings, live lessons, positive news updates and more. They will bring you activities from our partners too, to help fill your days and offer some much-needed variety.

Activities will be listed the day before - giving you enough time to get prepped and set up for the next day's learning.

Find your own approach. Don't worry about recreating school at home. But - if you're looking for ideas, or a way of adding a bit of routine into your day.

In response to the ongoing situation, PhonicsPlay has decided to give everyone free access to use their learning platform during this period.

Children can use the site at home without their parents needing to subscribe. To access our resources all you need to do is log on using the following details.

Please find link below to all relevant year Spelling Lists. Encourage your child to do 10-15 a week and write a sentence with the word to develop further understanding.

The Maths Factor is free for all children in primary schools. It has been created by Carole Voderman and it has been devised alongside the national curriculum.

It has access to videos and activities for children aged 4-11.

White Rose Maths Team has prepared a series of five maths lessons for each year group from Year 1-8.

They will be adding five more each week for the next few weeks.

Starters for STEM are 10 activities that parents can use at home to help children develop their science, technology, engineering and maths skills.

These activities are easy to resource and provide children with the stimulus to talk about the world around them.

Follow Parent Carers Together CIC Facebook Group for support and keeping connected during these uncertain times.

They endeavour to keep SEND family needs at the heart of their community.

Every day at 11am, you can listen one of David Walliams’ World’s Worst Children stories, so sit down, take a break, and enjoy 20ish minutes of pure fun!

In 2003 The Goldie Hawn Foundation launched MindUP, a highly acclaimed school-based Social Emotional Learning programme. MindUP teaches children about key parts of the brain to help them develop the critical knowledge and skills they need to strengthen their mental health and emotional wellbeing through increased self-awareness, self-regulation and social and emotional competencies.

They have created a set of comprehensive resources to help bring MindUP into your home to support you and your family. These resources form part of our MindUP For Families course for parents/carers.

Every weekday at 9am, two new lesson will be posted on the website and YouTube: one aimed at children in Y3 & 4 and another for Y5 & 6.

Each video will help children to build the skills needed for the main task.

Then children will complete the main task – a challenge or short series of questions – working individually or with adult support.

Audiobook service Audible - which is owned by Amazon - is offering free streams on a select number of children's stories across six languages to keep kids "dreaming, learning, and just being kids".

The service will be available for as long as schools are closed.

The books are separated into six categories:

• Littlest Listeners
• Elementary
• Tween
• Teen
• Literary Classics
• Folk & Fairy tales for All

The books available include "Heidi," "Jane Eyre," "Roots" and "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."

Nosy Crow made this book quickly, to meet the needs of children and their families. Illustrated by Axel Scheffler.

Nosy Crow is an award-winning, small, independent children’s book publisher. They have made this free digital book because they felt that children and parents might find it useful.

They publish lots of different kinds of books for children aged 0-12. You can find out about them here: www.nosycrow.com

The Good Housekeeping has devised a list of 30 Amazing tours for you and your child to view from home.

Go to many museums then to zoo's, aquariums and theme parks.

Keep your child entertained and learn so much more about our world.

This guide provides helpful information to help you with your child during lockdown and isolation.  Helpful hints and tips and how to keep routines.