You can use these resources if your child is absent from school with sickness for a sustained period of time, if the school is closed for any reason or if you simply want to do more learning with your child.

On the Learning Zone tab are a number of general websites and home-learning activities and suggestions. It is full of activities; some are time-limited and not always permanently available so make sure you check links etc before you start.  There are also many websites and activities listed here for KS1 and pre-school children too!

We hope that the below website links are really helpful in aiding with brushing up on subject knowledge, revising different subjects and coming up with ideas of activities to do or things to make. These resources will be helpful to both parents and children.

As always, please ensure that you are using safe searches, guided by a responsible adult who can determine the difficulty and suitability of websites and activities for each child.  All websites should be checked before allowing your child to access them as these are external links and the content can be easily changed and updated.

We hope you enjoy all of these links and activities!

These websites will help you continue your home learning on the academic side of things.

	TTS Home Learning Activities
	Twinkl Home Learning Activities
	You may need the code UKTWINKLHELPS
	Khan Academy
	BBC KS2 Learning
	White Rose Maths Home learning
	Resources made specifically for the covid school closures
	Mathletics free trial
	The Lonely Planet
	9 ways to teach your children without leaving home
	The Ogden Trust
	This site has lots of fun activities for learning about physics.

Loads of the activities above will be great for your littlies, but here are some more specific things you can do!

Here are some ideas that might help keep the little ones entertained..for a while anyway!

Story time:
Read your school reading book every day, practice your word cards and phonics sounds.
Listen to a grown up read to you - read with different voices, ask each other questions, retell stories and events, act out the story.
www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/ Free eBook library
Use puppets or toys to put on a show

Get writing:
Write a letter or postcard and post it to a friend of family member.
Help write a shopping list
Make a snack menu for home
Write a joke or quiz book!
Tell a story to a grown up, share the writing together, act it out with toys or with your family. Can you add an illustration?
Play treasure hunts; write clues and draw a map.
Draw a picture of your favourite character, superhero, animal, etc and label it.

Maths time;
Ordering and matching numbers to 10 and then 20.
Go on a number treasure hunt
Choose a number and find that many special items
Roll two dice and find the total, e.g. 4 + 3 =7
Play dominoes
Play pairs using playing cards
Make a repeating pattern using beads
Go on a shape hunt; Can you find a circle, square, rectangle, triangle and hexagon? How about 3D shapes?

Get creative:
Help make snack or a meal
Bake some cakes of cookies
Make a healthy smoothie
Put on a talent show
Have a lego design contest
Create art and set up an art exhibition
Play dressing up, costume design, hair dressers and makeup artists
Make a toy shop and play shopkeepers with money
Build a den or fort
Make playdough (https://theimaginationtree.com/best-ever-no-cook-play-doug…/)
Make a train track or small world land, can you add any labels?

Screen time:
www.topmarks.co.uk has a variety of free games, search for “Early Years”
www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/numberblocks Explore the Number Blocks games and watch episodes for free on BBC iPlayer.
www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ has a number of free phonics games, explore the Phase 2 and 3 games.
www.phonicsbloom.com/ You will find more phonics games here too.
Watch a movie and review it together.
Watch nature and science documentaries; can you make a poster about something you’ve learnt?

Get moving:
Disco dance party
Mini Olympics
Make an obstacle course inside or out
Jump on a trampoline
Play ‘Simon says’
Play computer dance games
Do some yoga (www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga)
Play hide and seek, scavenger hunt and escape rooms.

Quiet Activities:
Play board and card games together, practice taking turns.
Complete a jigsaw.
Help with some chores; dusting, make the bed, pair the socks, lay the table, wash up, etc…
Organise your toys!

There are also often many very resonably priced resources that you can purchase from shops such as Pound Land, The Works, Home Bargains, supermarkets, and WH Smith.

	Jelly and Bean Handwriting
	Teach Handwriting
	SEN Teacher Handwriting Printables
	You can make various-sized patterns to increase the difficulty.