Useful Links and Ideas
Twinkl
www.twinkl.co.uk – Twinkl is an educational resource which is offering parents a one month free subscription. Use the link www.twinkl.co.uk/offer and enter UKTWINKLHELPS. It offers all sorts of resources including at home packs, themed puzzles and revision sets.
Reading at Home
Keep reading every day! If you run out of books here are some useful online websites where you can access e-books or watch stories being read.
- https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/?view=image&query=&type=book&age_group=Age+6-7&level=&level_select=&book_type=&series=# With this website, you will be able to find books which match your child’s current book band.
- https://norfolk.overdrive.com/library/childrens If you have a library card, you can access e-books from here.
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b00jdlm2/cbeebies-bedtime-stories
- https://www.storylineonline.net/
- https://openlibrary.org/subjects/children#sort=date_published&ebooks=true
- With an adult supervising, you could watch a writer read their own book!
A number of authors are posting videos on their own websites or their social media platforms (Twitter or Facebook) with them reading stories. Here is a link to Oliver Jeffords, author of books such as Lost and Found https://www.oliverjeffers.com/books#/abookaday/. Josh Gad (voice of Olaf from Frozen) has also pledged to read a book every day from his twitter account.
On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays a section of James and the Giant Peach is read by a group of celebrities here https://www.youtube.com/user/officialroalddahl.
Online educational games
- https://www.ttrockstars.com/
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd63xyc/articles/zncgvk7
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd63xyc/articles/zdp4pg - www.purplemash.com
- https://world-geography-games.com/world.html
Staying active
- https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/twinkl-move/joe-wicks-twinkl-move - https://plprimarystars.com/
- https://www.nhs.uk/10-minute-shake-up/shake-ups - https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-collection/zbr4scw
