Welcome to our Resources for Remote Learning section of the school website
As a school, we have a variety of online learning platforms we subscribe to. These will prove invaluable to any pupil who is required to self-isolate and needs access to remote learning resources. Teachers will ensure that pupils are sent home with their login details to these sites to ensure they can access them at home.
Online Learning Platforms:
There is a wealth of additional resources available online that would also aid home learning. The details of these sites are listed below:
If your child has a smart phone or tablet with the Kindle App on, or a Kindle itself, and would like some recommendations for reading material, the following website has 50 recommended reads for each year group – www.booksfortopics.com.
https://www.booksfortopics.com/reception
https://www.booksfortopics.com/year-1
https://www.booksfortopics.com/year-2
https://www.booksfortopics.com/year-3
https://www.booksfortopics.com/year-4
https://www.booksfortopics.com/year-5
https://www.booksfortopics.com/year-6
Phonics Resources to use at home for KS1
https://global.oup.com/education/content/children/issues/phonics-for-parents/?region=uk - Has lots of information and guidance for parents
http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/ - Has lots of information, printable resources for each of the Letters and Sounds phonic phases, and also links to games aligned with each phase.
http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ParentsMenu.html- Offers a selection of interactive games for all phonic phases. Mostly simple games.
www.ictgames.com/literacy.html - Has a great selection of games that link well with games in Letters and Sounds.
http://www.bigbrownbear.co.uk/magneticletters/ - Make any words with this useful game.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/the-alphablocks-guide-to-phonics lovely short videos to demonstrate the different phonemes and alternative spellings
YouTube – Geraldine Giraffe – lovely videos for all sounds
http://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/
Useful Apps for tablets:
http://www.nessy.com/hairyletters/ - Useful app with interactive activities which we use at school.
http://www.letterschool.com/ - a good app for practicing letter formation. You can purchase the full version, or download the free version (LetterSchool Lite), which contains all the features of the full version for a subset of letters and numbers, at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/letterschool-lite/id481067676 .
For updates throughout this situation, don’t forget to keep checking your emails and our school and year group Twitter pages for more information!