Helpful Learning Websites
Oak National Academy online classroom and resource hub - The sector-led Oak National Academy has launched its online classroom and resource hub. The Academy offers 180 video lessons each week for schools to use, across a broad range of subjects. The lessons cover children in Reception through to Year 10 and are free to use by both teachers and young people.
https://www.thenational.academy/
Please see the link below to the Department of Education (DfE) website and links to Government approved websites to aid children's learning. There are many sites listed on the DfE website that cover all curriculum subjects -
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-online-education-resources/coronavirus-covid-19-list-of-online-education-resources-for-home-education
They have also released the following resources for learning about space -
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/space-related-educational-resources-for-home-schooling
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
https://www.esafetytraining.org/
https://www.esafetytraining.org/resources
http://login.mathletics.com/http://login.mathletics.com/
https://www.scouts.org.uk/the-great-indoors/
Barefoot offer lessons and activities for children for computing.
https://twitter.com/BarefootComp/status/1251107486821736455?s=09
Families can contact their current internet provider if they have one, as many are offering free data to support children’s learning. This includes, BT, Virgin, Three and Vodafone. Please see https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/amp/55551397 for further information.
If increasing mobile data isn’t a suitable option we can request a wireless router, but we need to know if you need this.
Additional home learning
You might have seen that from Monday 11th the BBC is producing 3 hours of learning programmes for children:
https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2020/bbc-launches-biggest-education-offer-ever?at_campaign=64&at_custom4=6C147B68-4F78-11EB-A276-E3864D484DA4&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_custom2=twitter&at_custom3=%40bbcpress&at_medium=custom7
This BBC link might also support some of you: www.BBC.co.uk/makeadifference
We have learnt that you can access Teams through both Playstation and the Xbox – we have added a link to the instructions on doing this in the hope it might help some of you. https://www.laisterdykeleadershipacademy.com/using-xbox-or-playstation-to-access-online-learning/
Support
Please remember that this is a difficult time for all
Place to be https://www.place2be.org.uk/ is a good avenue of support should you need it as are MIND https://www.mind.org.uk/