Home Learning During a period out of school during the Coronavirus outbreak, supporting your child’s wellbeing will be as important as supporting them with their academic progress. Children will be supported best by having a plan for the week. What will they do academically with physical and online resources provided and what will they do for fun and to relax?Making a plan can make all the difference. Making a list or a timetable for each day together could be great fun and really supportive and settling. Ideally, we would like children to spend time each day practising their times tables and spellings. It is also essential that they spend at least 20 minutes to 30 minutes a day reading. In addition to this, we feel that 30 minutes should be spent on maths and 30 minutes on English. For English, this could be a reading comprehension or a writing task. We believe that they should spend time each day either on science or theme (history or geography) - again around 30 minutes. Our day is structured as follows - In a morning, we would normally have maths and then English and after lunch it would either science, music, re, pe, pshe or theme. Please also refer to our Year Group Home Learning Page. These pages give specific learning information for each year group. The pages will be updated on a weekly basis with work that we would like your child to complete at home - https://sites.google.com/a/deepcar-st-johns.sheffield.sch.uk/website/covid-19---year-group-home-learning The Government have produced an online list of resources for you to access at home. I will also put the list on our website. https://www.gov.uk/…/coronavirus-covid-19-list-of-online-ed… Mystery Science - Free science lessons. Interesting mini-lessons. This is an American website so it is in grades  Live Science lessons online Here's 18 easy science experiments to try at home https://www.fantasticfunandlearning.com/easy-science-experi… Century As a social enterprise, CENTURY has pledged to give their learning platform free of charge to any school affected by coronavirus. They have said that this is not a trial and there is no charge and you will have access while schools are closed. They provide learning resources in English, maths and science, all aligned to the National Curriculum: You will need to visit https://app.century.tech/login/. You will need to enter the class code below along with your child's email address. If a child does not have an email address, they recommend setting one up. The account is then created and children can start learning straight away. CENTURY have said that they will provide them with a personalised learning path tailored to their skills and knowledge. The year group login codes are as follows: Year 3 - 3B4F58 Year 4 - 3B4FSA Year 5 - 3B4GG7 Year 6 - 65GX7U IET providing FREE resources across maths, science, engineering and design/technology available to help you. No registration required and the activities look great! https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2816682531779389&id=344642508983416 Anyone can access BBC Teach and BBC Bitesize for free. Their websites are home to thousands of free educational videos, guides and audio clips, as well as  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary or https://www.facebook.com/1904568533203172/posts/2549278108732208/ or http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/coursesearch/ Go and give yourselves a well deserved treat 🥂 It’s exhausting balancing working from home and teaching our children but we’re smashing it! We’ve got this! Twinkl’s Home Learning Hub has got you covered with new activities, live lessons and more added every day. Find out more here 👉https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/cv27g Engaging visual resources, lesson plans and quizzes that will provide you with fun and easy lesson activities to simplify tricky scientific concepts for primary school students. https://www.go.twigeducation.com/covid19-global To support parents and guardians with structuring and delivering home learning for children, TES have gathered a collection of teacher-created learning resources designed to engage both primary and secondary students and help them learn and study outside of their usual classroom environment. All of these resources are completely free to download and use and include lessons, worksheets, workbooks and activities across a multitude of subject disciplines, ranging from EYFS to KS4 (GCSE). With these resources, you can be confident that students will remain engaged and challenged throughout this period of social distancing and isolation.https://www.tes.com/teachi…/teacher-essentials/home-learning Looking for something fun AND educational to do with the children? Look no further, as NFU Online suggests 4 easy activities to help them become FOOD SCIENTISTS Our FREE English, Maths and Science courses are perfect for home learning and available for free while schools are closed. Learning materials and questions for 6-16 year olds. Tailored to your child's skills and knowledge. This might be useful if you are trying to plan ahead and get some activities organised for the coming week. Don't forget that there are activities for Science and Theme on our year group home learning page for the coming week.This is a link to some of the best sites out there for teaching science from home. 🤓https://www.facebook.com/1115616568456201/posts/3972609682756861/ Keep your kids entertained and educated during lockdown with Bowdleflodes NEW Art & Science home learning project! Our endangered species project is great for 5-11 year olds, register for free instant download now! www.bowdleflodes.com/login-or-register 🌿One of their projects starts with a Science focus where children will learn about different endangered species, their life-cycles and their habitats. Worth taking a look. So you’ve set up a free account with Twinkl. What next? (If you haven’t set up a free account yet, follow this guide: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/r680w) The Twinkl website is chock-full of useful resources and activities. It might be a bit tricky to know where to start. Make sure to have a look at the School Closure page > https://www.twinkl.co.uk/l/jmqio for more information, guides for parents and teachers, and links to some useful resources. IET education - As schools close, are you looking for fun, curriculum-linked activities to do with your kids and keep them focussed? We have FREE resources across maths, science and design/technology available to help you. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2757951887652454&id=344642508983416 To support continued learning at home. Learn-Through-Play Workshops available FREE online. https://www.facebook.com/128691838274/posts/10159568048878275/ Looking for home school activities, for your children? https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156695116891396&id=13695746395 Knowledge Mats Knowledge Mats are designed to be used at school during lessons and at home. Parents can help children learn the information contained on the mat. We are confident that these Knowledge Mats will help children to develop knowledge on a wide range of topics and will significantly improve their vocabulary. This, in turn, will make them more confident in class and help to develop their reading and writing skills. Knowledge Mats can be found by clicking on the following link - https://sites.google.com/a/deepcar-st-johns.sheffield.sch.uk/website/knowledge-mats |
