Home Learning
Please see below useful links and downloads to support Home Learning. Each of our schools have provided a weekly programme of home learning tasks. These can be accessed on your child's school website on the 'Home Leaning' page under the 'Parents' tab.
Online Safety
If you haven’t got parental controls in place for your devices at home. We strongly advise that you action these. Please see the help sheet and advice below:
How to set up parental controls
NSPCC Keeping Kids Safe Online
KidRex (Safe Search for kids!)
COVID 19
Advice for parents during coronavirus
BBC Newsround - Advice if you are worried about COVID19
Children's Guide to Coronavirus
Dave the Dog – Free Book to discuss children’s worries (Written by a nurse)
Gov.UK: Supporting your children's education during coronavirus (COVID-19)
NSPCC Positive Parenting Guide
NSPCC Building Positive Relationships Worksheet
Mindfulness & Wellbeing
Looking after your feelings and body - Public Health England
Children's Yoga
Home Learning Heroes Newsletters
For the love of books! - Reading Newsletter
Teaching Resources
Enter the code: UKTWINKLHELPS for free access
Wickstead Educational Resources
Resources for parents and carers of children with dyslexia
Reading
Phonics Play Username: march20 Password: home
Read Write Inc. – Short Phonic Lessons
Harper Collins – reading activities
David Walliams – Audio Elevenses
Teach Your Little Monster to Read – Website and App
BorrowBox App – Irthlingborough Library
English
Maths
Play Number Bots – Remember this uses the same logon details as TT Rockstars
Maths Chase - Times tables and mathematics skill-based games
Computing
Physical Education
5 A Day Fitness - Username: 5-a-dayAtHome / Password: AtHome12
Science
Science Museum - Learning Resources and Apps
0-5 Years
Virtual ‘Days Out’
Natural History Museum, London
Science Museum – Games and Apps
Science Museum – Learning Resources
Scavenger Hunts
Family Activity Ideas
Family fun is so valuable and important, here are some great activities you can get involved together with:
- 30 Day Lego Challenge
- Shadow Drawing
- Photography challenge - choose a colour each day and go around the house taking photos of different objects in your chosen colour.
- Write a story together
- Keep a diary – it will be interesting to look back on
- Set up a pen pal
- Start your own blog
- Go for a bike ride
- Take up birdwatching
- Learn to play chess
- Research a particularly interesting time in history
- Bake a cake
- Grow plants or vegetables
- Practise a musical instrument
- Design a board game
- Check out virtual tours online
- Plan a "round the world tour" using Google earth for inspiration
- Ring or write to granny/aunty/cousin etc.
- Keep a scrap-book
- Learn to a language
- Learn some sign language
- 100 Things to do indoors
- Non-screen Activity Ideas
- Recipes for Children
- We Are Stars - National Space Centre Activity Pack
- Make your own Ice Cream