Resources for Blended Learning

During periods when school is not fully open to children or  when individual children are self-isolating at home, this bank of online resources could be useful to supplement the learning being provided by school. This is by no means an exhaustive list and other free resources are available.

We use these learning platforms in school and many children have personal login details for these.

    Timestable Rockstars. Increase your timestable speed and challenge your friends.

      Aimed at younger children to support them to become faster at recalling number bonds

    PE activities and ideas

    Countless resources across many curriculum areas for all ages

    Free eReading books at your child’s level

Here is a long list of resources that may be useful. This is not an exhaustive list and none of these resources are necessarily endorsed by our school:

From the BBC:

• BBC Bitesize Lockdown Learning: This Term's Topics - BBC Bitesize
• CBBC Lessons pdf (bbci.co.uk) Example of weekly tv schedule
• BBC Teach podcasts and radio for ages 3 and up.

General Resources

• Twinklgo Free Access to Digital Interactive Resources for children across the primary age range during the lockdown beginning January 2021
• TTS – A choice of free downloadable workbooks for primary-aged children.
• Teacher’s Pet – some free resources for primary pupils.

Reading

• Virtual School Library | Oak Academy (thenational.academy) – Virtual School Library

EYFS and KS1

• TalkingTales - free online rhymes, songs, stories & related storytelling activities by expert storyteller Kevin Graal.
• 'Hungry Little Minds' produced by the government for parents to use with EYFS children.
• Phonics Play – Phonics Play have made made their resources free again for the duration of the school closures.

Computing

• Hosted by Barclays, Digital Eagles have live lessons on coding available on YouTube.
• Minecraft: The Education Edition is popular with children already – these coding resources all have an educational purpose.

PE

• Joe Wicks – aka The Body Coach – is running PE Lessons for all ages.
• The FitNut has free PE resources for nursery and primary children.

French

• Duolingo – A free app for your phone for students to work on their language skills, or try a new language.

Museums, art galleries, theatres and places of interest

• Museum of London Docklands has a free virtual tour.
• The Yale Centre for British Art has made courses free for students during lockdown.
• The British Museum has made its online collections free to the public.
• The Natural History Museum has free virtual tours.
• The Tate Gallery has a 360-degree virtual tour online.
• View the latest exhibitions at The National Gallery virtual tours.
• Anne Frank House Museum has created virtual tours for free.
• The Vatican has opened up its digital tours so the Sistine Chapel can be viewed.
• NASA Kids is perfect for space fans. Learn all about the universe we live in by viewing these online videos.