Primary Home Learning

Resources for Home Learning

Primary Home Learning

Primary Home Learning

During the school’s lockdown in 2020, we launched a section on our school website containing daily activities for all year groups and links to resources.

Whilst we very much hope we do not have to go into a further lockdown, we know that there is a possibility that this might be the case at some point in this academic year.

If your child is in the year group that had to be sent home, they would revert to online learning. As such, students will be taught by their normal teacher in their normal class groupings using Microsoft Teams. In addition to online lessons, all years will use Microsoft Teams to share resources with their classes, engage in dialogue and respond to queries.

In this section of our site, we have kept useful links and guides and linked, we have also have kept an archive of the Primary Home Learning site for future reference with some links to materials we are no longer authorised to use removed.

Archive

View Archive Site

Guide to Teams

A Student Guide to Using Microsoft Teams

Useful Links

English Links

Maths Links

Topic Links

Reading Resources

Some helpful tips for reading at home

Schedule a time and place in the day where you sit down to read with your child.

Ensure there is a comfortable, preferably quiet, place to read.

Encourage your child to read for at least 30 minutes a day. Try to spend part of that time reading with them and talking about the book.

Before reading, encourage your child to discuss what has happened so far and what they think is going to happen next.

Encourage your child to speak to other family members about what they have read.

Reading resources and online links

Fun reading activities

  • Create a word search. You can have a theme e.g. characters, favourite scenes, different settings.
  • Draw your favourite character and explain why you like them.
  • Draw a picture of your favourite setting from the book and then write a short description.
  • Write a Book Review. Who is your favourite character? Why? What is your favourite part of the book? Why? Would you recommend it to a friend? Why?
  • Create an acrostic poem based upon your book.
  • Create a new book cover for your book and explain the choices you have made.
  • Re-write a scene, event or chapter.
  • Draw a new character you would like to include in the book and explain their characteristics.
  • Write an alternative beginning to your book.
  • Write an alternative ending to your book.
  • Change one of the characters from your book. For example, for a ‘good heroic’ character turn him/her into a villain. Write the new character description

Maths Resources

Dear Parents and Carers,

Thank you for supporting your child’s learning at home.  We know that you are busy working on the home learning activities provided by School, however we would also like to offer some additional resources and guidance linked to Maths which you may find useful.

One of the most important things that your child can do to support their Maths learning whilst at home is to keep practising their key number facts, including number bonds and their times tables.  Below are some resources and tips to support them with this.

Resources for practising times tables/number facts at home:

The following websites and resources have all been checked are suitable for use by children but, as always, please do ensure that children are supervised when using the internet.

Times Table practice:

Websites:

Apps:

Number facts practice:

Some tips for practising times tables/number facts at home:

  • Little and often – a little bit of practise (5-10 minutes a day) will support children with retaining their number facts.
  • Have key number facts displayed in the house to encourage children to practise them. You could ask children to design a poster to help them to retain key facts (eg. a 5 times table poster)
  • Have a ‘fact of the day’. This could include related facts.  For example, if the fact was 18 + 2 = 20, you could link the 3 related facts: 2 + 18 = 20, 20 – 18 = 2, 20 – 2 = 18

Fact of the day:
3 x 7 = 21
7 x 3 = 21
21 ÷ 3 = 7
21 ÷ 7 = 3

Fact of the day:
18 + 2 = 20
2 + 18 = 20
20 – 18 = 2
20 – 2 = 18

Quick fire practice: as you are taking your daily exercise, for example, ask some quick fire questions to support children’s ability to recall facts at speed.

  • Look for patterns. Eg, for times tables: the 2 times table is always even and ends in 2, 4, 6, 8, 0, the 5 times table alternates between odd and even and always ends in 5 and 0 – could children create a poster/fact sheet to show these?
  • There are lots of other tips and ideas for games and activities included in the resources linked above and below.
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Additional Maths resources:

Below is a list of links to additional Maths resources that have been produced to support home learning.  They provide opportunities to practise number fluency as well as other areas of the Maths curriculum.  A lot of these include videos with links to activities and all are free to access.  Most of these provide resources from EYFS through to Year 6.

  • The Maths Factor
    https://www.themathsfactor.com/
    Create a free login and practise key Maths skills with Carole Vorderman.  For children aged 4- 12, with activities matched to the National Curriculum.  There are a range of activities including daily lessons and Maths games.
  • White Rose Maths
    https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/
    White Rose Maths resources are used a lot in school and they have published a set of free resources with daily videos and activities available for free on the link above. They also produced some free activity ideas over the Easter holiday which are available for download.
  • Mathematics Mastery
    https://www.mathematicsmastery.org/free-resources
    This website has a range of pupil packs and activities for all ages which are free to download.
  • I See Maths
    http://www.iseemaths.com/home-lessons/
    Each day a new teaching video and activity is uploaded for KS1, Years 3-4 and Years 5-6
  • Hamilton Trust
    https://www.hamilton-trust.org.uk/blog/learning-home-packs/
    There are home learning packs for each week, with activities for each day. Each download comes with Powerpoint slides, mostly fluency practice and a few nice investigations
  • Mathematics Shed
    http://www.mathematicshed.com/maths-at-home-shed.html
    Here you will find lots of tips for supporting your child with their Maths learning at home, as well as links to websites and activities.
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Topic Resources

Art

D&T

Music

PE

RE

Spanish

Computing

  • https://www.stem.org.uk/primary-computing-resources
    Teaching resources to develop an understanding of the computing curriculum, helping children to become creative, confident and safe.
  • https://code.org/
    A great website which helps you learn all about computer science
  • https://scratch.mit.edu/
    With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community. Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for life in the 21st century.
  • https://www.codeclubprojects.org/en-GB/
    Here you’ll find step-by-step instructions for coding projects, which will teach you how to create games, animations and more with code.

Geography

History

PSHE

Science