Did you know that you can help your child to develop ‘computational thinking’ even without a computer? It’s all about learning to solve problems, which helps in other subjects and in everyday life. This website has some easy activities, fun ‘mini missions’ and interactive online games: Barefoot computing home learning
The sector-led Oak National Academy has today 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.
The Oak National Academy can be accessed here:
Welcome to Kids Rule! where you can learn about England’s history. Within each period we delve into the real lives of people, from the rich and famous to the general population. Discover more about everyday life and our properties through fun facts, illustrated stories and games. There is a PDF magazine under each section, as well as additional articles, videos, recipes, crafts, dressing up kits and other downloads.
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We are please to announce that we have set up Year 1, 2 and 3 with accounts on Lalilo – parent codes will be sent out via text over the coming week.
Lalilo – online phonics and comprehension program – to see how to log on click here
Lalilo is an innovative, visually engaging, standards-aligned literacy software program for K-2 students and teachers. Our program supports literacy learning and instruction through interactive and developmentally appropriate exercises for students and extensive data tracking and planning tools for teachers. We support learning and instruction across all components of literacy, including phonological and phonemic awareness, letter and word recognition, comprehension and fluency, vocabulary, writing, and social literacy. Lalilo strives to provide students with a comprehensive, supportive, engaging, and fun learning environment to promote independence, proficiency, and a love for literacy. In addition, we aim to increase efficiency and efficacy for teachers by providing valuable data and planning tools.
In our student platform, children “travel” through a world of individualized, self-paced exercises. Our Artificial Intelligence technology helps sequence lessons and content levels to ensure that students are working on developmentally appropriate exercises, individual needs, and grade level literacy standards. Our approach allows students to receive both positive and constructive feedback, while ensuring they are working on skills that are not too easy or too hard. We are able to report back to the teacher areas of strength and growth, while suggesting lesson ideas and offline activities to reinforce skills.
Our teacher dashboard organizes and analyzes student data, taking into account information gathered from both the student platform and from teacher input. Teachers can view students’ progress in individual skills and literacy components, create groups of students for instruction, and plan for correlated lessons. Teachers can also assign student levels or particular skills, which are taken into account in the student’s progression in the program. Lalilo is designed to work as a complement to any teacher’s instructional method and curriculum by supporting students in components that are critical to success in literacy learning.
Lalilo’s program has been designed to help students meet grade level Common Core Literacy standards for grades K-2. Our team of teachers and reading specialists, (along with experts in educational psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics) carefully design content so that it scaffolds learning to help students meet rigorous standards. Our current content focuses on phonological awareness and phonics, which addresses the foundational skills standards of the Common Core. We are working to develop exercises that further address foundational skills (word recognition, print concepts, and fluency) and that support comprehension in both literature and informational texts.
We regularly elicit feedback from our teacher users and experts in the education field in order to constantly improve on our product and to transform literacy learning in the 21st century.
For more information on our current and upcoming exercises, please check our exercises previewhere, after signing-up.
At Lalilo, we are working to promote social literacy and collaborative learning. We believe that independent technology-supported work is only one piece of the literacy learning puzzle. We know that children learn significantly through collaborative and social processes. Therefore we are working to develop exercises on our platform that encourage interaction with peers and adults through small group and partnership work. Developing these social exercises will more closely reflect current teaching practices and prepare students for a future of interacting socially through literacy.
Coping with Corona
Understandably, we are feeling overwhelmed and anxious in the light of the continually changing effects of COVID-19, making everything feel uncertain and out of our control.
In a fast changing world, finding our focus and trying to slow down can help us tune in to our personal responses to this situation. This can help us prioritise our personal needs including the health of ourselves, our loved ones, our neighbours and our community.
Music Learning Videos
Durham Music Service has launched it’s Youtube channel
Every day from 20th April we will post a short musical learning video for your pupils suitable for both in and out of school.
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From 20 April, you’ll be able to access regular daily lessons in English and Maths, as well as other core subjects, in an expanded version of our website and also on special programmes broadcast on BBC iPlayer and BBC Red Button.
We’ve worked with our colleagues in other parts of the BBC and education experts from around the UK to make sure everyone who needs it can access learning resources during this uncertain time. You can also expect some of it to be delivered by well-known faces.
Click here to see BBC Bite Size article for more information
Travel to the tropics, desert and mountains without leaving the house as we bring the gardens to you. Get a sneak peek at our glasshouses and see what’s bursting into bloom across Kew Gardens and Wakehurst.
If you’d like to keep your children active, take a look at the sessions provided by TB Sport
