Home Learning Tools
Your child can access their Google Classroom using their email address and their password which is stuck inside their planners. Please contact the office if you need assistance with this.
Fun game for working on improving your times tables and becoming a Rock Legend.
Lots of different modes, including competitive online play.
15 mins a day - at least 1x soundcheck a week. Track your progress graph.
Fantastic game that builds confidence recalling key mathematical facts. Players choose what level of difficulty, and what range of facts to recall.
Play individually on a regular basis and track your scores on a table in your workbook.
Or play competitive games against family members!
Huge range of games that cover all areas of maths- can you beat your own scores?
Try the other games on this website as well- one of the best collections.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money is an excellent money game
Range of free maths game to try. Usually behind a paywall, they have been made free during this period.
Try out these games while free! Write a review of them in your home book.
General- Learning by Questions
STAR RESOURCE:
Questions broken down by year group and subject. This is is one of the best organised sites available. When you click on a subject, it generates questions for you to answer- this can be done independently or with support
Spelling practice in a range of online games. A lot are currently free.
Work on one word list a week, and play games. Combine with written practise!
Geography/History: Google Earth
A really powerful resource that allows you to go anywhere in the world- you can go on tours and get further information about places.
Hit "I feel lucky" to be flown to a random location
Try "Voyages"
A link to the scouts website with lots of "do at home" activities".
Try them out!
A range of regularly updated games that allow children to understand how to stay safe online and improve their understanding of the internet.
Work through together!
For further ideas, visit the Online Safety page.
STAR CODING RESOURCE:
Free online coding- available on tablets and desktops, this is a popular programming language.
Play and create, or remix other user's projects
Try https://scratch.mit.edu/starter-projects for ideas.
Currently free
Similar to Scratch, but in a slightly different range of programming languages.
The hour of code section is particularly good, as it sets varied challenges
https://www.tynker.com/hour-of-code/
Story based tablet game that takes the player through biblical stories.
Tablet app- it is totally free
Stories and activities designed to improve children's communication skills and mental well being
Read through the stories together and see where the discussion takes you.
A fantastic collection of art and craft ideas. On this page they are themed, and easy to sort through. The step by step instructions are clear and easy to follow.
The famous artists section has some fantastic ideas. There are a lot of advert links on this site, but the content and ideas are worth visiting.
Lots of downloadable materials that have been made free. The activities are designed to support well being and positive mental health in children.
The social stories give a really good framework for adults to talk to children about the current situation in a safe and supportive way.
A range of planned challenges for PE inside the home!
This is regularly updated and they have lots of inventive ideas. Maybe the adults could join in as well?
A range of PE activities specially designed by the Youth Sport Trust
The 60 second challenges and active breaks are very effective as refocusing activities.
General - Premier League Stars
A range of football linked activities that include Maths and English
Part of the premier League community program, scroll down to find activity ideas and follow the links to resources.
A large collection of free resources from the schools science club.
The activities are arranged by year group.
Scroll down the page to find the experiments and ideas.
There is even one about how toilets work!
A brand new selector that organises activities by key stage and subject.
A lot of these activities can be done from the back garden, or form inside.
From the BBC, this is a range of investigations and scientific puzzles than can be done at home
Look at the links towards the bottom to "live lessons". This could develop further soon.
A range of resources and ideas to try out. This is a huge site, and the ideas link to many different age areas of the curriculum.
This is huge resource, covering lots of different subjects. It is also getting updated regularly.
New songs added daily to sing along to.
Recommended by East Riding Schools Music service.
Each song comes with a range of activities to accompany it
Change for life 10 min shake up
A range of 10 minute activities that are designed to get the whole family active
All the activities are free and can mostly be done at home. Most importantly, they are Disney themed!
A series of science experiments that can be done at home with little no resources. This page is regularly updated, and has many links
Try the oobleck experiment. It is a solid? Is it a liquid?