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Please see below an overview of activties to support your child's learning at home. Please do not hesiatte to contact us should you need any further information. 

 

 

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Health and Well Being Support

Below are some links to support mental health and well being. 

 

Action for happiness coping calendar

https://www.actionforhappiness.org/coping-calendar

 

Place 2 Be Resources for Parents and Families 

https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/resources/#families

 

 

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Active Learning 

Below are some links to help you keep active and healthy as a whole family! Why not take a picture and share this on your portfolio via Class Dojo. Ready, steady, get fit!

Danny Go!- Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

Need to let out some energy? Here's some upbeat instructional dance songs you can move your body to!

 

Go Noodle 

https://www.gonoodle.com/

Dance based workouts for all the family! 

 

BBC SuperMovers

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers

Movement activities that are also linked to curriculum areas. 

 

Cosmic Kids Yoga- Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga

Join Jamie and her wonderful themed Yoga sessions to help your child stretch and relax! 

 

5 A Day

https://www.5-a-day.tv/

Online 5 minute exercise and chill out routines for children.

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Reading 

Below are some links to websites to help support your child's reading at home. Reading to your child every day is a great way for them to develop a love of stories and understand how stories are structured. 

Read, Write Inc. Phonics

As you know as a school we follow the Read, Write, Inc. Phonics approach to teaching early reading.  Please contact your class teacher to see which set your child needs to access;

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ

Phonics Play

https://phonicsplaycomics.co.uk/comics.html  comics to support reading

This can be accessed on tablets and mobile devices. 

Oxford Owls

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/?view=image&query&type=book&age_group=Age+7-9&level&level_select&book_type&series

This is a website that has an ebook library. If your child has finished reading their book and needs some new material, have a search through this library. 

 

www.spellingframe.co.uk

A great fun resource for practising all the words on the National Curriculum spelling lists. Just click on your year group and that will take you to all the appropriate spelling lists for your age, with games to choose at the bottom of the page.

 

Pobble365

https://www.pobble365.com/

 A wonderful literacy website which has daily inspiration for writing creatively and improving literacy skills. It has wonderful images each day to spark ideas and then scroll down underneath the picture for excellent oral and written activities such as creative writing story starters, reading comprehension questions, grammar, punctuation, spellings and more.

 

General Resources 

 

https://literacytrust.org.uk/family-zone/

 

The National Literacy Trust has set up the ‘Family Zone’ free resources to support parents and families during school closures and have useful advice for all age groups.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary

 

 

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Science

Join the pod for some activities, movies and games to help you learn all about energy, biodiversity, climate science and much more. 

http://www.jointhepod.org/students?dm_i=5HV9,6G8W,20GNGV,O8J6,1#

 

Mystery Doug

https://mysterydoug.com

This website answers a range of interesting Science questions for children, such as how old is the Earth or how are rainbows made? A good website to develop the inquiring mind! 

 

Science Challenges 

Siemens science challenge

Watch a selection of videos to help you conduct science experiments at home using items from your kitchen cupboards.

Siemens 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. These are available anytime. 

 

Design activities for Lego lovers

 Free Lego challenge  a 30 day calendar with a Lego challenge for each day. 

 

Cooking Lovers 

Get kids cooking with Jamie Oliver. He shares recipes and advice on how to cook with children. These are available anytime through this website. 

 

Below are some further links for you to explore: 

https://sciencebob.com/category/experiments/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/radio/something-special-science-centre

https://www.science-sparks.com/

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Music

Music lessons with Myleene Klass who will teach your child about the technical aspects of music while encouraging them to have a go with homemade instruments. This is available Mondays and Fridays at 10am. A lullaby session is also available on Wednesday evenings

  DJ App

free djay app by Algoriddim

Djay guides users through every stage of mixing, teaching them the basics of decks and loops before giving you the freedom to mix and remix their library of music. All you need is a phone or tablet.

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Art

Drawing 

 #DrawingwithSarah. McIntyre, Author of GrumpyCorn. These are released Mondays and Fridays around 10am. The videos can be accessed at any time.

 

Doodles to drawings 

Lunchtime Doodles with Mo Willems ( a children’s book illustrator) Mo transforms his doodles into pictures.

 

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Computing 

Code Break program by code.org

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!  Sign up to receive each week’s Code Break via email here.

Coding games on Scratch

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

Barefoot computing

https://www.barefootcomputing.org/homelearning

A computing website that is offering free resources for pupils during the school closure period. These activities explore computational thinking- without always needing to use a computer. 

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