Homework links
Access to Learning at Home
LITERACY
Youtube Channels (FREE RESOURCE):
- The Alphablocks are living letters who appear in wonderful videos to help your children learn about phonics and develop their reading skills.
- KidsTV123 has a large playlist of phonics videos that children can watch.
- Fairy Tales and Stories for Kids has lots of animated stories to enjoy. Can your children retell the story to you after they have watched one of the videos?
- BBC Teach has a playlist of English videos to teach your children about punctuation and stories. It also includes ideas for writing, songs and more.
- CBeebies have a playlist of their Bedtime Stories, in which people read popular children’s books. Why not record your own version on a mobile device?
- Watch this collection of book trailers from Scholastic. Could you make a trailer for one of your favourite books?
DEVELOPING VOCABULARY & SPEAKING / LISTENING SKILLS
Children who have a wide vocabulary achieve better at school. Whilst children are at home, take time to turn off the TV and devices and have conversations! Here are some prompt cards which are great conversation starters; use them on journeys or at the dinner table! Try to encourage longer answers, not just yes or no.
MATHS
This website is excellent to practise timestables; it is especially good for children in Y2 to Y4. FREE RESOURCE
This bbc website is especially suitable for Early years
A website suitable for Y6 only – arithmetic practice FREE RESOURCE
This website has a range of maths games for ages 3-5, 5-7 and 7-11 MANY FREE RESOURCES AVAILABLE
This website has a fantastic range of open ended problem solving activities and maths games (usually to play with a paper and pencil!) Go to the web address and click on the orange house link in the top tab for activities for children age 5 to 11. FREE RESOURCE
Playing games is an excellent way of helping your child. Recognising patterns on dice and dominoes, for example, can be really help with creating mental images of numbers and helping them on the way to becoming fluent and flexible with calculations.
Some examples of games your could play:
Shut the box, Rummikub, Card games, Dominoes, Battleships, Pick up sticks (with scoring)
Youtube Channels (FREE RESOURCE):
- The Numberblocks channel has lots of great videos to help younger children learn about numbers, addition and subtraction.
- The Numberjacks are a group of superhero numbers who appear in educational videos that cover thinking skills, problem solving and maths.
- The Singing Walrus has lots of songs to teach children about numbers and counting.
- Hopscotch has songs to help your children with counting.
- Mr DeMaio creates fantastic educational videos, including this playlist of songs to help your children learn their multiplication tables.
- Laugh Along and Learn also have a collection of Times Tables songs that your children can sing!
- This playlist from Happy Learning English has some times tables songs, as well as videos about shapes and measurements.
- Math & Learning Videos 4 Kids have a wide range of videos about different maths topics.
- This playlist from BBC Teach explores how maths is used in different areas of life and work. It also includes videos about number, measure and shape concepts.
COMPUTING / INTERNET SAFETY
This website contains child friendly resources/ tutorials which your child can access to learn about staying safe online; there are different activities according to age. FREE RESOURCE
PHONICS (EYFS & KSS1)
Oxford Owl is an award-winning FREE WEBSITE packed with expert advice, top tips, eBooks and activities to help
you support your child’s reading and maths at home. Also 250 free e-books IF you choose to register.
SCIENCE
Youtube Channels (FREE RESOURCE):
- Happy Learning English has a large collection of videos about humans, animals and plants.
- Learn about amazing animals with this playlist from National Geographic Kids.
- Hopscotch produce many educational videos. This playlist has songs about habitats, the continents, oceans and planets.
- Operation Ouch produce educational videos about the human body.
- Homeschool Pop has put together a collection of videos that cover a wide range of Science topics.
- SciShow Kids has a wide range of Science videos that answer different questions about the world.
- Science Max carries out huge science experiments. Could your children try similar experiments, but on a smaller scale, at home?
GEOGRAPHY
Youtube Channels (FREE RESOURCE):
- Learn about the continents around the world with this playlist from National Geographic Kids.
- BBC Teach has a playlist that can help your primary children to learn about different geographical concepts.
- This playlist from Kids Learning Tube is full of videos to teach your children about countries around the world.
HISTORY
Youtube Channels (FREE RESOURCE):
- The Horrible Histories channel has some funny videos and entertaining songs that children can use to learn about different periods from history.
- This playlist from Happy Learning English has some animated history videos.
- Clarendon Learning has a large playlist of history videos for children.
ART
Youtube Channels (FREE RESOURCE):
- Art for Kids Hub has an enormous range of ‘How to Draw’ videos and art / craft ideas.
- 5-Minute Crafts Play shares craft ideas, experiments and tricks that you can try together.
- Disney Junior also has a playlist of videos from their Art Attack series.
- Easy Kids Craft has lots of enjoyable craft activities that you can complete.
- Free School has a playlist of videos that can teach your children about famous artists from history.
MUSIC
Youtube Channels (FREE RESOURCE):
- RelaxDaily has an extensive collection of calming music that your children can play as part of mindfulness activities, or when they are working on other educational tasks.
- Kidz Bop produce child-friendly versions of popular songs. Can your children learn some of the lyrics or dance along with the moves shown in the videos?
- Classical Kids Storytime features children’s stories that are accompanied by classical music.
- Free School has playlists to teach your children about Beethoven and Mozart.
P.E
Youtube Channels (FREE RESOURCE):
- The Body Coach has a great playlist of ‘5 Minute Move’ videos. These provide short workouts to get your kids moving! He is also going to do a 30 minute P.E lesson every morning at 9.30 on his YouTube Channel!
- Little Sports has videos featuring a variety of exercises to help your children stay active at home.
- GoNoodle has videos that teach your children different dance workouts.
- Try different yoga and mindfulness activities with these videos from Cosmic Kids Yoga.
- Footy Pups shares videos to get younger children interested in exercise and to learn different football skills.
- To help kids stay fit and healthy at home during school closures, we are adding lots of FREE workouts to the site! These will be available at https://jumpstartjonny.co.uk/free-stuff.
- https://www.headspace.com/meditation/kids (FREE TRIAL)
- https://littlepuddins.ie/coronavirus-social-story/ (FREE RESOURCE)
- https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/amp/t-c-2549234-childrens-mental-health-activity-pack (FREE RESOURCE)
- https://www.healthforkids.co.uk/ (FREE RESOURCE)
- Mind Moose (https://www.mindmoose.co.uk ) is a web app. Children go on a journey of discovery with Mind Moose and his animal friends. They explore more about themselves and different coping mechanisms so that in times of stress they know what helps them relax and what makes them feel happy. (FREE RESOURCE)
- FOCUS On The Go!, FOCUS stands for Families Overcoming Under Stress, and this app aims to teach resilience- a key part of mental wellbeing – to every member of the family. It helps your child develop five essential skills: problem-solving, goal-setting, communication, emotional regulation, and managing trauma and stress. (FREE APP)
OTHER SUBJECTS
Youtube Channels (FREE RESOURCE):
- National Geographic Kids have a playlist of videos that teach children how different things work.
- TheLearningStation has a playlist of songs to use as Brain Breaks, when your children need a refresh and recharge before they continue their learning.
- Messy Hands has a selection of easy recipes and cooking videos to try with your children.
- Discuss what is happening around the world by watching this playlist of videos from CBBC’s Newsround programme.
- Homeschool Pop has a playlist of timers to use when you would like children to complete a task within a set amount of time!
- Mike’s Home ESL has plenty of games, teaching tips, songs and warm-up activities that you can use with your children!
- Teachers Hub also has a variety of games and songs that you can try together.
OTHER GENERAL RESOURCES
253 free educational interactive teaching resources and activities for Primary Schools.
77 free to use fun kids games/activities for kids aged 4 - 11. 165 plus links to free interactive teaching
activities, educational games, image and software resources. FREE RESOURCE
Some websites have offered limited free access to parents during this difficult period: Twinkl has a huge amount of learning materials and worksheets from EY to Y6 across all curriculum areas. They are offering free access to parents. Go to: Twinkl offer and enter the code UKTWINKLHELPS White Rose Maths are also in the process of creating some online resources. https://whiterosemaths.com/
You can also download a FREE WORKBOOK, one for KS1 and one for KS2 here:
Learning does not have to be online or from books. Here is a list of some activities which can be completed at home from our Longman’s List of 60 Amazing Experiences.
EMOTIONAL WELL BEING
New free resources during the Covid-19 Pandemic:
Lots of great problems to solve at nrich 
http://www.nrich.maths.org
There is a new website which is part of nrich called Wild maths. There are some great problems to solve here. Why don’t you take a look? Follow this link:
We want children to enjoy maths and view it as a creative, exciting subject; to embrace challenge, learn from mistakes and enjoy the thrill of making new mathematical discoveries. The Celebrating Maths Project will help you to promote these attitudes with your children.
The Celebrating Maths Project is a series of three short videos written to give parents a range of mathematical games and puzzles to play at home.
The first video, for parents of children aged 4-5, gives ideas for finding maths in everyday situations and explains some important stages in developing an early understanding of number. The second and third videos, for parents of children aged 6-7 and 8+, give ideas for mathematical strategy games that can be played with simple equipment and an active mind!
By playing maths games together, whatever your personal experience of the subject, your child will learn that the challenge of maths is there to be enjoyed!
Follow the link below to see the three videos:
http://www.iseemaths.com/celebrating-maths-project/
"To help kids stay fit and healthy at home during school closures, we are adding lots of FREE workouts to the site!
These will be available at https://jumpstartjonny.co.uk/free-stuff.
Maths Games
Each week children will be tested on their mental addition, subtraction and multiplications. Below are a few links to fun Maths games that will help your child to improve their Maths skills.
Click the links below
Addition
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=PostSortingcalculationsv2
(Postbox challenge)
http://www.arcademics.com/games/alien/alien.html
(Alien Invasion)
Subtraction
http://www.arcademics.com/games/mission/mission.html
(Minus Mission)
Times tables, Doubles, Halves, Square Numbers
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
(Hit the Button)
