Home Learning March 2020

Welcome to our Home Learning Zone.

UPDATE:

From Monday 20^th April, we are going to be changing the way we set work for the children to complete at home. The work will now be set on Google Classroom which is accessible from internet enabled mobile phones, laptops, tablets and many other electronic devices.

Google Classroom will enable children to share their work with their teachers and other members of their class and ask any questions if they need support or additional guidance when completing their work.

Every class at The Gateway now has its own Google classroom ready for the children to join. Instructions to join the classroom are included in the document below.

google-classroom-letter.pdf

Welcome to The Gateway home learning area. Please click on your class name to access the work that your teacher has set for you to do. Please note this is only suggested learning rather than compulsory and can be developed with your own ideas. You may need to take a flexible approach to the timetable due to restrictions on access to technology, which we fully understand.

At the bottom of the page we have uploaded a range of links which parents may find useful to support learning.

Below is a similar timetable to one which we aim to follow in school, which you may find helpful to follow. It is based on a regular school day and the sort of lessons your child would participate in.

Time	Activity
9.00 - 9.15	Explain the day and review yesterday's learning
9.15 - 9.45	Phonics / Spelling / Timetables
9.45 - 10.30	Learning activity e.g. English
10.30 - 11.00	Break time
11.00 - 12.00	Learning activity e.g. Maths
12.00 - 1.00	Lunchtime
1.00 - 1.30	Reading
1.30 - 1.45	Handwriting
1.45 - 2.15	Learning activity e.g. Topic
2.15 - 2.30	Break time
2.30 - 3.00	Learning activity e.g. Continue Topic

Useful Websites for Home Learning

A list of websites compiled by Headteachers.

https://kah.org.uk/covid19/resources/primary

General home learning ideas for teachers and parents

https://www.facebook.com/groups/coronavirushomelearning/permalink/498895137719265/

Reading

Oxford Owl

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/

Sign up to Oxford Owl to access free, interactive book banded books online. Once you have signed up the children can either read or listen to the stories on a tablet, phone or laptop for free.

Scholastic Online Magazines

https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html

Scholastic have produced a huge number of learn at home resources for all years from Reception to Year 6. The activities are often based around a video and involve reading different genres of text. They are adding to them on a weekly basis.

Online Story Books – www.vooks.com/

EYFS/Key Stage One

Phonics activities

www.phonicsplay.co.uk

In school, we use phonics play to support our phonics teaching. It has a huge number of interactive activities the children can access online to support the learning they have completed so far this year.

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In addition to phonics play, www.phonicsbloom.com/, www.letters-and-sounds.com/,

CBeebies – Alphablocks – www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/alphablocks

www.teachyourmonstertoread.com

Handwriting

Letter join

https://www.letterjoin.co.uk/

This website models our school’s approach to handwriting and models the joins the children use at school.

Art

Harptoons publishing – daily live drawing lessons at 2pm

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2995235810497393&id=199933863360949

Additional Online Resources to support home learning

Primary league Primary Stars

Football themed home learning linked to maths, English, PSHE and PE.

https://plprimarystars.com/

Twinkl

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/

Twinkl has made all of its resources accessible for home use and has a huge number of English, maths and topic resources.

Maths Master the Curriculum

https://masterthecurriculum.co.uk/

Additional free Maths sheets available online

Classroom Secrets

https://classroomsecrets.co.uk/free-home-learning-packs/

Classroom Secrets has produced a hand learning pack for English, maths and reading for every year, which can be used to support the learning we have set or to give the children the opportunity to revisit previous concepts.

Top Marks

www.topmarks.co.uk

Free online Maths games

Timestable Rockstars

Cbeebies – Numberblocks

www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/show/numberblocks

ICT Games for Literacy and Maths

www.ictgames.co.uk

Keeping Active

Cosmic Yoga

Yoga Videos designed for kids aged 3+

www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga