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Resources for Families

We have identified a range of online learning resources that families may benefit from.

The Government has released a list of online education resources for home education.

General

  • BBC Bitesize website - daily lessons for homeschooling in Maths and English for every year group, as well as regular lessons in Science, History, Geography and more.
  • Oak National Academy website - online classroom and resource hub created by teachers with a range of English, maths and foundation lesson and resources from EYFS - Y6
  • Classroom Secrets Kids website - Platform for learning grammar, punctuation, spelling, maths, reading history (years 1-6)
  • Doorway online website - Collection of interactive literacy games and numeracy activities
  • Emile website - Online program for 4-12 year olds that covers the UK national primary curriculum for numeracy and SPaG with some phonics thrown in (free access currently)
  • Pobble 365 website - ‘One picture. One teaching resource. Every day.’
  • Robin Hood MAT website - Lots of learning projects for parents and schools (EYFS, KS1, Y3/4, Y5/6). Be sure to read the project overview guides first
  • Robin Hood Multi Academy Trust website - Learning projects for schools (EYFS, KS1, Y3/4, Y5/6)
  • Teacher’s pet website - Provides thousands of resources for KS1 and KS2
  • TTS website - Free home learning activity booklets for Early Years, KS1 and KS2.
  • Twinkl website - 500,000+ teacher-created materials and resources

Maths

  • Eedi website - Craig Barton’s maths resources.
  • Oxford Owl website - Free maths games and activities for ages 3-11 (requires sign up for an account)
  • Eedi website - Craig Barton’s maths resources
  • NRich website - Primary maths activities and games
  • Mathsticks website - An online platform for maths games
  • Times tables rock stars website - A programme for daily times tables practice. (currently full free access to all schools closed)
  • White Rose Maths website - Provides maths lessons for Years 1-8
  • The Maths Factor website – Carol Voderman’s maths website where learning is broken down to topics using games

English & Phonics

Science

  • Rethinking Education website - Practical ideas for parents to do with their children. Linked to the National Curriculum for Years 1 to 6
  • That Science Lady website - Lots of resources, including home discussion questions, enquiry questions and careers information
  • GrowEatGift website - 30 ways to go wild with science
  • Retrieval roulette (via Google drive) - Q&A sheets for Primary Science years 1 to 6
  • Cosmic Shambles – Professor Brian Cox with daily science shows

Wider curriculum

  • 30 ways to get creative on the GrowEatGift website (art)
  • The History Guy – Dan Snow offering free access to his history documentary channel for 30 days
  • iCompute website - Supporting schools with comprehensive computing curricula for pupils aged 3-11 (free access currently)
  • Myleene’s Music Klass – Myleene Klass offering free music lessons on YouTub
  • Theo Michaels – Former Masterchef star streaming cooking classes
  • Jump Start Jonny website - Weekly workouts and activities (a paid site with access to some free activities)
  • The Body Coach workout – Jo Wicks daily PE workouts 9am
  • Dance with Oti Mabuse - Strictly Come Dancing star shares dancing lessons on YouTube
  • DuoLingo - Providing free access so you can learn a language at home