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The Divine Mercy
Roman Catholic Primary School
‘with Jesus in our hearts and the Children at the centre,
we welcome and reach out to our diverse community in the Christian Spirit’
Home Learning Support
On this page we will share ideas and short videos to help you to help your child to learn even more!
If there are any areas you want help on just ask your class teacher.
In Early Years the majority of the time children spend spend learning through play, having fun, both inside and outside, and we would encourage parent/carers to continue this approach.
By all means do have some parts of the day where you support your children to do some specific learning tasks (eg Maths, English, Creative work etc...) but try and make sure it is fun and if needed followed by a suitable reward.
We would expect children to be able to spend between 10-20 minutes on a task in general, but bear in mind it depends on the task set and how the child feels, encouragement and fun work well! Often we find doing a fun activity can then lead to lots of learning opportunities, eg bake something together and you can then have fun doing Maths (measuring out, counting), English (drawing and labelling what you did), PE (mixing carefully, health & self care - taking about healthy/unhealthy food, being safe in a kitchen), RE (sharing food with others who are less fortunate than us), Science (how ingredients change).
Daily - English (writing), Phonics, Mathematics, Reading (together - lots!), PE - search for "Joe Wicks daily PE lesson" on youtube for a fun PE lesson.
Weekly - Creative (making something together), Science (exploring, search for "Sick Science" or "thedadlab" on youtube for fun experiments to do or watch), RE - http://www.wednesdayword.org/home/childrens.htm has some fun activities or watch Easter videos on youtube (eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PSgoPdKQFQ&t=172s ).
Pick some of the fun "non-screen" activities from this website to have a go at: https://medium.com/pobble/simple-and-fun-non-screen-activities-that-children-can-do-at-home-115543cb3b9c
UPDATED - NEW WEBSITES / IDEAS -
Talk for Writing - https://www.talk4writing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/R-Maxs-Jungle.pdf
Various - https://www.bbc.co.uk/tiny-happy-people/4-to-5-year-old-child-development-activities
Maths - practice writing your numbers correctly - https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=66ujzrRg70s&app=desktop
English - https://www.talk4writing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/R-Mouse.pdf
Lots of new PE ideas...
- Home Learning with the Youth Sport Trust
- 60 Second activity cards
- Active Learning
- PE with Joe Wicks (Daily 9am or watch them back when you can)
- BBC Supermovers
- Go Noodle
- Cosmic Yoga
- Get Set Tokyo Tens
- Sportshall Family Home Pentathlon
- Funetics Athletics based activities
- Little Exercise For Kids – Home Workout
- 5 a day fitness
- Children’s Health Project
- Alphabet Bingo Fitness
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/bring-the-noise/eyfs-ks1-music-play-it-bring-the-noise/z4sq92p - music games
- https://theimaginationtree.com/ - creative ideas
- www.vooks.com - reading, speech & language, free trial
- https://readingeggs.co.uk/ - 6 week free trial
- https://booksharetime.com/ - reading, speech & language
- https://collins.co.uk/pages/big-cat-ebooks - free reading books & worksheets linked to book bands
- "penpal fairy / superhero" - writing - parent/carer writes a letter pretending to be a fairy / superhero and ask the child to write back to them, then they respond...
- https://mathseeds.co.uk/ - maths, free trial
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqSngfbPsUND0ZIgLB2yXdQ/videos - singing
- https://www.rsno.org.uk/rsnochallenge/?fbclid=IwAR2We4nOEmlkwPzdbqEQEIhusn3kzk6sIrQFbNRaV7uD7snnCMvpwuBhNwQ - weekly music challenge
- https://www.scouts.org.uk/the-great-indoors/ - various
- https://www.phonicshero.com/ - phonics, free trial
Some eSafety activities you can do at home - https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/Support-tools/home-activity-worksheets/early-years/?utm_source=Thinkuknow&utm_campaign=f4fd0dd4ee-TUK_ONLINE_SAFETY_AT_HOME_05_05_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0b54505554-f4fd0dd4ee-55273813
RE - May is traditionally a month dedicated to Mary - click here and discuss together, why not make a Mary May Altar at home?
Art / Design & Technology - 30 fun activities - click here
Weekly Mathematics lessons - https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/
Reading & Phonics games - https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/
Children with SEND advice and support - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/help-children-with-send-continue-their-education-during-coronavirus-covid-19
DAILY Phonics Lessons - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw/videos?disable_polymer=true
Fun PE sessions - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCokO71NW3TgndaSNyHIqwtQ
Talk for Writing - helps with writing and communication skills - https://www.talk4writing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Reception-Sue.pdf
Website with various activities, pick the age range you would like - https://hungrylittleminds.campaign.gov.uk/
More online lessons: https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/reception/#subjects
25 fun non screen activities - https://medium.com/pobble/25-more-simple-and-fun-non-screen-activities-that-children-can-do-at-home-f74550c00a84
We use "Talk for Writing" across the whole school to develop the children's skills in writing, language, understanding, imagination and reading. Click here to access an example based around a Magical Witch story!
- Music - https://www.outoftheark.co.uk/
- Science, History, Geography - https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/category/discover/
- Maths - http://www.iseemaths.com/home-lessons/
- Reading - https://manclibraries.blog/2020/03/24/childrens-book-resources/
- Loads - https://www.teaglo.com/blog/free-home-learning-resources-for-parents-during-school-closures/
Talk to your child about how people might have felt when other countries were not being kind to each other. On VE day we celebrate the day that the countries decided to be friends again. How do you think everybody felt? How might they have celebrated? Talk to your child about how they can be a kind friend. Maybe they could make a card for a friend, or draw a picture of their friends.
Have a look at the following resources from Healthy Schools Manchester. Some top tips for staying organised and motivated during home schooling, and some useful links to further online learning.
Stay Active!
Join in with daily P.E. sessions with Joe Wicks live at 9am on Youtube. Search 'P.E. with Joe' and have fun!
Communication & Language
This website has some great videos that will give you ideas how you can help develop your child's communication skills - https://small-talk.org.uk/
Reading
Phonics
Tricky Words
High Frequency Words
READING:
Lots of great books can be found on youtube or this website from the library has great links - https://manclibraries.blog/2020/03/24/childrens-book-resources/
Below is a copy of information shared at our Reception Reading Speed Learning Event, if you have any questions please ask your class teacher for help.
PHONICS:
Online games to play:
- https://www.phonicsbloom.com/ - a variety of phase 3 games
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvq9bdm - phase 3 sounds
- http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PictureMatch.html - blending
- http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/PicnicOnPluto.html - blending nonsense words and focus sounds
- http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/DragonsDen.html - blending nonsense words and focus sounds
- http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/BuriedTreasure2.html - blending nonsense words and focus sounds
- http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/SentSubPhase3.html - sentence substitution
- ** http://www.ictgames.com/tellAtRex_v3.html - yes no sentence reading dinosaur
- ** http://www.ictgames.com/blendingBingo_LS.html blending bingo
- ** http://www.ictgames.com/phonemePopLS_v2.html - phoneme pop
- http://www.ictgames.com/poopDeckPirates/index.html
Maths
You can access a number of fun maths games and on the following websites -
2D and 3D Shapes
Can you go on a shape hunt around your home? What 2D and 3D shapes can you find? Can your child describe the shapes? Talk about the number of sides, corners, faces on each shape. Have they got straight or curved sides?
Race Track
