Remote Learning

In the uncertain times that we are currently living in, it is important that we are fully prepared for the possibility that we may have to have a full or partial closure of school depending on the local Covid-19 situation.

There will also be instances where individual children will be self-isolating due to coming into contact with a positive case of Covid 19.

To build upon the learning children are currently undertaking in the classroom, we have compiled a menu of activities that aim to motivate the children’s curiosity about some of the current topics being investigated and build upon their knowledge, skills and understanding. This list will evolve and change as the situation progresses. Each title’s activity is a hyperlink taking you to the activity.

Mathematics Resources:

TTBlast – choose your timetables to practise.

Times Table Rockstars – Times Table Rockstars for KS2. You will have an individual log in for this.*

NRICH – Click on the primary hub to access maths problem solving activities for children.

Topmarks Daily Ten and other maths games.

Maths playground – Interactive maths games

ICT Games – interactive Maths games.

CrickWeb – interactive cross curricular activities

Mathsframe – Hundred of maths games

Sumdog – Online games and activities – all free of charge at the moment.

Emile – Online maths activities.

The Maths Factor – Free online maths lessons from Carol Vordeman

Lego Maths – See how much you can learn with the simple Lego brick!

Times tables quizzes (with answers)

ThirdSpaceLearning – click here for instructions to set up your free account

Chess – Learn to play the ultimate strategy game

White Rose Maths – Maths for every year group

My Money – Resources to support using money from Young Enterprise

The Fiver challenge

Join the Maths World Cup

Reading Resources:

myON – access to more than 6,000 enhanced digital books.

Teach your monster to read – Suitable for children from Nursery, Reception and KS1

Authorfy – Masterclasses with authors and creative writing activities

ICT Games – reading, handwriting, phonics and writing activities

Phonics play Phonics games and activities- currently free access to the whole site

Reading Zone Live – authors, writing and poetry

Oxford Owls Free e books for children aged 3-11

Love my books – activities for children from 0-9 and links to you tube book readings.

Epic books – free access to lots of books for children of all reading abilities

Audible – Free stories to stream in 6 languages

Teach your child to Read Free e books with guidance, (previously £47)

Reading for Pleasure Ideas to support you to love books!

Classic Reads Read along with some classic full length stories

Roald Dahl activities – Exciting things to do indoors with all of your favourite characters

Harry Potter at home – Bring the magic of Hogwarts to your front room.

Go on a Bear Hunt with Michael Rosen

Discovering Books – Learn to draw the Gruffalo,create a miniature book and make a talking animal

LitFilmFest – films made by children for children

Books Trust – fun at home with authors and illustrators

Globe TV treat yourself to a little Shakespeare.

Spoken Language/Debate Skills:

Home Debate Club – helps families to take part in a fun online debate to boost wellbeing and connect with each other.

Writing Resources:

20 Great Opening Lines – take an opening line from a book and continue the story.

Literacy Shed – high quality shorts and images to be used as a stimulus for writing opportunities with some ideas of how to use each image/ video.

Daily Picture Stimulus – use Pobble for a daily image with a story starter, linked questions and sentence challenges.

Spelling incl. phonics Resources:

Spell Blast – practise your spellings

SpellingFrame – Learn and practise spelling rules

ICT Games – reading, handwriting, phonics and writing activities.

Phonics Play – free games for EYFS (phase 2 – 4), Y1 (phase 3 – 5) and Y2 (phase 5 – 6). Free access: username: march 20 password: home

Forest Phonics – work your way through the different sounds. Listen to the word and then spell it. Great for practising segmenting.

Vocabulary Ninja – word of the day in weekly bundles. Two levels: Grasshopper (KS1, years 1 -2) and Shinobi (KS2, years 3-6)

Computing Resources:

Purple Mash – curriculum focused activities, creative tools, programs and games to support and inspire creative learning

Dance-mat Typing skills –this is a great opportunity for children to improve their typing skills.

Code Club self-led coding projects using Scratch or HTML/CSS projects for KS2.

Scratch – children can watch the tutorials and practise their skills. They can set up their own accounts with parental permission. For KS1 we recommend Scratch Junior which is a free app on ipads and tablets (but not PC’s yet). You can view these free tutorials and activities to get you started.

Code.org You can use hour of code or sign up for a free coding course. These courses are self-led and age appropriate and are brilliant for developing vital debugging skills.

Learn to code and more with Rapberry Pi (Parents’ guides and support here too!)

Learn Digital Skills with BT

Online Safety Resources:

ThinkuKnow – a great website to work through age appropriate online safety activities with your children with Home Activity packs and parents’ guides updated fortnightly.

BBC Own It! – Useful advice and games for upper KS2 children.

Science Resources:

Explorify – Activities based on the primary science curriculum which are easy for parents and carers to do with children at home.

NFU Education – Science and STEM resources.

Topmarks Science

Wow Science

Plants and Growing food – Find out more about where our food comes from

Watch animals – LIVE from Edinburgh zoo. (Penguins, pandas, tigers and koalas)

Experiments you can do at home

NASA– all of NASA’s resources are now free to look at

More animals – this time feeds from Australian zoos

Primary Science resources – ideas for all National Curriculum topics