Home Learning

Home Learning

This page aimed to support parents/carers during COVID. We have chosen to keep the links on, available for free (or with a given UN and PW), to aid home learning. There will be a range of weblinks to enable you to support your child's learning but also to have fun.

English inspired activities:

Espresso English, Maths, Science and Computing activities

Letter Join Handwriting resources and activities. Ask the class teacher for login details.

Phonics Play Phonics support for KS1 and EYFS pupils.

Pobble 365 Writing resource inspired by imagery.

Read Write Inc. Follow this link to high quality virtual phonics lessons.

Art inspired activities:

Drawing Cartoons with Steve Harpster Learn how to draw your own cartoon characters with Steve Harpster with his step by step instructions.

Drawing with Sarah Drawing classes with Sarah McIntyre (author of GrumpyCorn)

Lunchtime Doodles Transform doodles into illustrations with Mo Willems (illustrator)

Computing inspired activities:

Code Break! A free weekly webcast where the code.org team teach coding and computer science to children (and adults). They are also setting weekly challenges for beginners, experienced coders and even students without computers!

DT Inspired Activities:

Learn about the design of money and create your own

Story in a box challenge

Animal Hotel Challenge

Inventors, Sketching Techniques and more

Scratch A whole set of coding games for you to explore for free (although you may need to sign up to the website)

Cooking inspired activities:

Gordon Ramsey's Food Waste Challenge

Cooking with Jamie Oliver Recipes and advice on how to cook with children.

Maths inspired activities:

ATOM

Numbots

Times Tables Rockstars

White Rose videos

White Rose Workbooks

Music inspired activities:

Music with Myleene Klass Myleene Klass teaches your child about the technical aspects of music while encouraging them to have a go with homemade instruments.

Other:

Twinkl Activities for all areas of the curriculum. This had been offered for free to parents during Covid by simply creating an account and using the offer code: UKTWINKLHELPS We do not know if this offer is still in place.

P.E. inspired activities:

Home Learning Workbooks

Home Learning - White Rose

Cosmic Yoga Themed yoga fun, 10-15 minutes long

Dance lessons with Oti Mabuse Learn lots of different dance routines, 15-30 minutes duration

The Nation's P.E. teacher: Joe Wickes Workouts designed for children every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Reading inspired activities:

David Walliams David Walliams has a range of activities on his website ... fun and creative!

Science and Engineering inspired activities:

Science and Nature with Maddie Moate A range of videos can be found on Maddie's YouTube page.

Sieman's Interactive Challenges A series of interactive games that set your child engineering problems from designing a rollercoaster, to discovering which energy is used to effectively power a farm.

Sieman's Science Challenges! Videos and tutorials to help you conduct science experiments with resources from home.