Home Learning Resources
Welcome to our new resource page designed specifically for home learning. Parents, please point your children to the area below for a selection of fun activities and assignments. This page will be regularly updated so please keep checking back for new content.
Why not check out our new challenges page as well? CLICK HERE
Ideas for activities at home
Please click on the links below for more.
- Mindfulness exercises
- 50 things to do in and around the home
- Coronavirus booklet for children
- Ideas for activities to do at home
- Making shadow shapes and puppets
Home Learning Links
To access some fun and exciting online resources, please checkout the links below!
New for November 2020:
Tin can drumming:
In this lesson we will learn how to make a Tin Can Drum Kit and learn to play to drumming rhythms. Adult support will be needed for this session.
Cutlery Glockenspiel:
In this lesson we will be making a Cutlery Glockenspiel and learning to play changing rhythms.
Christmas bottle blowers:
In this lesson we will learn how to make a set of bottle blowers to play the song ‘Jingle Bells’.
Hungry Little Minds:
Simple, fun activities for kids, from newborn to five.
Messy Blog UK:
Moon Sand Sensory Play Activity blog.
MATHS IN THE MOMENT
Maths is how we make sense of the world and maths is everywhere but do we always see it? We want our children to become confident, life-long mathematicians, full of curiosity and the capacity to ask and answer questions. For this reason, maths needs to be part of their thinking throughout the day. Children don’t need to know they are learning maths in order to be learning maths.
Lizz Gaskill Lockdown activity ideas
I’m Lizz. I’m an experienced Early Years teacher and Forest School Leader. My Nursery is closed and I’d like to use my experience and knowledge to support families who have children at home.
I have created three weeks worth of fun activities for you to enjoy at home with your children.
Let’s learn about animals:
Explore London Zoo on its official channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/ZSLvideo?app=desktop
Watch animals in the wild:
https://explore.org/livecams/currently-live/tau
A selection of Edinburgh Zoo’s webcams:
https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/webcams/penguin-cam/#penguincam
Come and have a peek at some farm animals:
https://www.folly-farm.co.uk/webcams/barn-webcam/
Nature-themed activities you can do at home:
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/looking-after-yourself-and-nature
More animal webcam links:
https://www.countryliving.com/uk/wildlife/countryside/g31784857/live-animal-webcam-zoo/
Home Learning Links
To access some fun and exciting online resources, please checkout the links below!
P.E. WITH JOE WICKS
Joe Wicks from Body Coach TV has started a daily P.E. streaming video. This takes place every morning from 9am.
ONLINE SAFETY AT HOME
Advice on how to start the conversation and get support if you’re worried. Please click on the icon or link below for more.
DAVID WALLIAMS
Click on the link below or the icon above for today’s free audio story from David Walliams’ collection of children’s books!.
REASSURING SUPPORT
This short book has been created to support and reassure our children, under the age of 7, regarding the COVID-19. .
WE ARE TEACHERS
The Big List of Children’s Authors Doing Online Read Alouds & Activities. Click on the icon above or the link below to access this content.
CBEEBIES STORYTIME
Sit back and enjoy some wonderful stories for children read by the CBeebies team and special guests on the show.
TINY HAPPY PEOPLE
Tiny Happy People is here to help you develop your child’s communication skills. Explore our simple activities and play ideas.
NUMBOTS
You can now access Numbots at home for FREE for some amazing fun maths games for all years. Maths and robots! What a great combination!
More Great Links
Here are even more fantastic links for you to look at with your children. We hope that you enjoy them!
http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm
Great site with some free phonics games
.
http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/
Interactive books and reading activities to share with your child at home.
www.sebastianswan.org.uk
Books for reading together with links to understanding of the world (good for natural science).
http://www.ictgames.com/
Some excellent numeracy and literacy resources
http://www.ictgames.com/looCoverWriteCheck
/LCWC_demo/index.html
Good for spelling high frequency and tricky words!
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html
Lots of maths and literacy games
www.boowakwala.com
Many games and songs including those relating to festivals.
www.poissonrouge.com
Many delightful games. Spend some time exploring!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/barnabybear/
Visit the world with Barnaby Bear.
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?Subject=37
Games of varying quality to support different areas of learning.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/
The Little animals’ activity centre – plenty of good quality activities to support learning.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/story/sbi.shtml
The Little animals’ activity centre – stories.
www.abc.net.au/children/play
Various educational games, videos and craft ideas.
www.britishcouncil.org/kids-songs-little-kids.htm
British Council “Learn English” – songs and stories.
http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/15.cfm?s=15&p=252,index
Good quality games from a range of websites such as BBC, as well as Birmingham’s own. Supports communication, language and literacy, problem solving, reasoning and numeracy as well as other areas of learning.
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/numbertime/index.shtml
Problem solving reasoning and numeracy.
