Resources for Families

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

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

Oxford Owl website - Free e-books for ages 3-11 (requires account signup)
Home Learning Pack #1 Nature and Animals on the Reading Realm website
Learning Pack #2 Fairy Tales on the Reading Realm website.
Home Learning Pack #3 Creative Writing Prompts on the Reading Realm website.
Teach your monster to read website - An award-winning game that makes learning to read fun.
David Walliams audio books – daily reading by the author David Walliams
#Savewithstories – Jennifer Garner and Amy Adams offering stories online
Phonics with Mrs Huxley - Mrs Huxley shares Phase 2 and Phase 3 phonics activities

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