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Keeping up a love of reading during COVID-19 school closure

These are extremely challenging times for schools and we are here to support you before, during and after temporary school closure.

We believe that reading is one of the most beneficial and enjoyable activities a child can continue to do whilst at home. To help schools and families, we are making all 45 of our popular Love to Read reading guides available as free downloads.

The Love to Read guides cover Years 3 to 6 and centre around an enjoyable fiction book, encouraging children to read both classic and modern literature. Every guide includes a whole range of suggested activities, both for independent reading and talking points with parents.

Although each book is pitched at a different age group, families can pick and choose, depending on the child's reading ability and the level of support on offer.

Many of these titles are well known family favourites and are available via bookstores and the usual online retailers, in ebook and physical formats. Some libraries offer an online lending service, too.

For simple, practical tips on how to enjoy the Love to Read guides as part of your home learning, listen to episode 54 of The Curriculum podcast.

Download your free Love to Read guides here

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Alone on a Wide Wide Sea by Michael Morpurgo
Bill's New Frock by Anne Fine
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Children of Winter by Bernie Doherty
by Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kastner
by Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian
by Louis Sachar
I Was There... 1066 by Jim Eldridge
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman
Poems to Perform by Julia Donaldson
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
by Gill Lewis
Stig of the Dump by Clive King
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas by David Almond
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Demon Dentist by David Walliams
The Family from One End Street by Eve Garnett
The Firework Maker's Daughter by Philip Pullman
by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hundred and One Dalmations by Dobie Smith
The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The Phoenix Code by Helen Moss
The Saga Of Erik the Viking by Terry Jones
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson-Burnett
The Sheep Pig by Dick King-Smith
The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
The Thieves of Ostia by Caroline Lawrence
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
by Berlie Doherty
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Usborne Greek Myths For Young Children retold by Heather Amery

Further home learning ideas for schools using Cornerstones

Our curriculum is primarily designed to support teachers in the classroom. However, there are some resources that could be used for home learning. Below are some ideas.
Please note that the following can only be sent home in hard copy or, if your school is using Curriculum Maestro, as a PDF download via email.

Send the home learning activity suggestion sheet home for children to enjoy working from, either with or without their parents or carers.

Send the project book lists home. Children could choose a good read from these and respond by writing a mini presentation, poster, video or book review.

The reading, SPaG and maths tests, available in the 'Library' section on Curriculum Maestro, can also be sent home. All tests have a mark scheme that parents could use if appropriate.

Our popular knowledge organisers can be sent home. Read our blog here about how to use these.

Invite the children to plan a phone or a webcam interview with an older relative or trusted family friend or neighbour. This will help with projects such as Memory Box and Time Traveller, but it can also provide comfort and connectivity during isolation.

Children could write a daily diary or blog about their daily activities and learning or, for added challenge, in the role of a historical or other significant figure from their current Cornerstones project.

Here are some websites that we recommend for home research. We're sure you will be able to share many more, so please add these in the comments section below.

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/ https://www.nhm.ac.uk/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize https://www.britishmuseum.org/ https://www.tate.org.uk/kids https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/explorers/resources https://www.nasa.gov/kidsclub/index.html https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/
Extra support for schools using Cornerstones

These are extremely challenging times for schools and we are here to support you. If you have any questions - however large or small - about your primary curriculum design, delivery or management, our staff are all available to help. We can help you to plan your curriculum in the short and longer term and our curriculum blog, podcast and magazine articles are here to support continued staff training.

Free online training

We are also offering free online curriculum training to all schools with a Cornerstones licence during this period. Please contact us if you would like to book a session with a curriculum adviser.

In the meantime, keep an eye on your inbox for our email updates. We'll be sending you links to new resources, projects, and our popular blogs and podcasts - perfect for continued staff training, even if working from home.

You can also access all copies of our The Curriculum magazine here.

If you're not using Cornerstones

If you would like to book a free demo with one of our curriculum advisers to discuss your school's curriculum and how we can help, please click here.

To all the incredible staff, children and school communities out there, we thank you.

Are you on The Hub but need to move over to Curriculum Maestro? Call 03333 20 8000 or email us at support@cornerstoneseducation.co.uk. It's quick, free and easy to transfer.

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Visitors can find learning resources for a primary audience (KS2) on a variety of topics which have been created by former staff and students at the University.

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Please visit our University's 'Activities for the classroom' webpages to find more online resources for key stage 2.

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The Children's University of Manchester has been designed to support KS2 (7-11) teaching and learning both in the classroom and at home. The resources can be used for whole class teaching with an interactive whiteboard and also for group, individual and homework sessions using pc, tablet or mobile devices.

The website can also be used by parents, carers and children at home. Why not work through the module yourself and then use your knowledge to help your child?

Discussion and interaction between a child and their parents or carers is known to play a significant role in a child's development and educational success. An important objective of the Children's University of Manchester is to give children an insight into University life by introducing them to students, staff and graduates who will explain what University life entails, show children that it is a welcoming, accessible and exciting environment and importantly give children aspirations for their own future. This is achieved using profiles of key individuals, photographs and stimulating facts about The University of Manchester and its many achievements as well as the Student Life module written by two of our own graduates.

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Kodu Game Lab is a 3D game development environment that is designed to teach kids basic programming principles. Kodu allows creators to build the world's terrain, populate it with characters and props, and then program their behaviors and games rules in a bespoke visual programming language.

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Online phonics games is a website dedicated to help teachers and parents make learning to read fun by using online phonics games and other interactive online phonics resources. There are lots of paid resources online for phonics but my site is a collection of the very best free online phonics games that I can find. It is also a collection of the best online phonics songs and helps to answer the question I get asked most by parents, 'what is phonics?!'. We also have an online phonics glossary to help you learn your digraph's from your grapheme's. If you know of anymore online phonics games that you think should be included, please do let me know by getting in touch on our contact page so I can test them out!

*NOTICE TO SCHOOLS - You do not need to ask my permission to link to my website!

Phonics Difficulty: Easy

Best for: Sound recognition.

How to play: Listen to which phonetic sound you have to find and click all the circles with that sound in.
'Best game for beginners'

Phonics Difficulty: Hard

Best for: Word comprehension.

How to play: Drag the correct word to the picture and watch as each word is sounded out and blended together if you get the answer right!
'They have an 'easy' version of this game too with just 1 picture to match'
Phonics Difficulty: Choose Easy, Medium or Hard

Best for: Spelling.

How to play: Listen to the word and pick sounds from the list displayed to spell the word.
'The best spelling game I have found.'

Phonics Difficulty: Medium

Best for: Segmenting and blending.

How to play: An interactive way to practice sound buttoning skills. Drag the sound button underneath each letter. A dot is for single letter sounds, short line is a digraph, long line is a trigraph and the curve line is for a split digraph!
'Only game of its kind for teaching sound buttoning'

Phonics Difficulty: Hard

Best for: Pseudo words.

How to play: Read each word that appears on the screen. Drag real words into the book and alien/pseudo words to Albee for him to eat!
'Great practice for the Phonics Screening Check'
Phonics Difficulty: Medium

Best for: Spelling.

How to play: Print off the bingo cards pdf and then 'click' pull to reveal new words, first one to complete their card wins!
'Makes reading words fun and a whole class activity'

Phonics Difficulty: Medium

Best for: Segmenting and blending.

How to play: Look at the picture and drag the correct sound into the word to finish the word. Then watch as it gets sounded out and read back to you!
'Love that the word is segmented and blended back to you'
Phonics Difficulty: Medium

Best for: Pseudo words.

How to play: Click for a 'snack' and feed the alien words to Obb and the real words to Bob.
'Another good game for practicing pseudo words.'
Phonics Difficulty: Choose Easy, Medium or Hard

Best for: Spelling.

How to play: Listen to the word and pick from the choice of sounds to spell the word.
'Another great spelling game.'
Do you have an online phonics game you would like to see here? Get in touch through our contact page.

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Online phonics games is a website dedicated to help teachers and parents make learning to read fun by using online phonics games and other interactive online phonics resources. There are lots of paid resources online for phonics but my site is a collection of the very best free online phonics games that I can find.

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Play phonics games that make learning to read fun! Choose from 7 free online phonics games and practice a range of phonics skills from segmenting and blending, grapheme recognition, word comprehension, and much more! Our online phonics games are designed specifically for Key Stage 1 (Year 1 and Year 2) and Kindergarten students. Our phonics games closely follow the Letters and Sounds Phonics Program, ideal for those learning to read with Phonics in the UK, US, AUS and NZ. Also brilliant for toddlers who want to play phonics games!

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Welcome to ictgames. Here you'll find free to play educational games aimed at children between 5 and 8 years old; written by a UK teacher with 20 years experience. The games are linked to the UK KS 1 and 2 curricula. Here are some help videos to get you started.

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An understanding of phonics is one of the core literacy skills kids need to become fluent readers. As such there is a burgeoning resource of lessons, activities and games that teach kids phonics online. But what is phonics exactly?

Phonics is the ability to link letters or combinations of letters to units of sounds, called phonemes. This is otherwise known as the Alphabetic Principle. There are two types of phonics instruction generally used in early education:

Analytic Phonics - is a form of inferential learning that teaches children to analyse a particular set of words and recognise the common phoneme. For example, a student may be asked to discuss how the following words - run, roll, risk, rant - are alike.

Synthetic Phonics - focuses on linking an individual letter, or letter combination, with its appropriate sound. This allows kids to break words down to their individual letters and sounds. This synthetic approach has in recent years largely overtaken the analytic approach as the preferred method of phonics instruction.

Regardless of the approach taken, educators agree that phonics instruction is less effective when removed from a larger framework of literacy instruction. The same goes for instruction of phonics online. Any phonics instruction, whether face-to-face in the classroom or if delivered online, needs to be couched within a larger literacy framework that delivers instruction in all the key literacy areas, phonics being one of them.

Reading Eggs delivers effective instruction in phonics online by using a synthetic phonics approach. The lessons offer explicit instructions by mapping individual letters and letter combinations with appropriate sounds. Each letter of the alphabet is introduced in its own lesson, focusing on the letter-sound relationship and highlighting the alphabetic principle. The focus of the lessons is on developing awareness of letter-sound relationships, not for their own sake, but so that the knowledge can be deployed in the active and fluent reading of meaningful texts.

Reading Eggs includes a comprehensive phonics programme that includes lessons on core phonics skills such as working with beginning and end blends, a variety of vowel sounds, dipthongs, consonant letter sounds such as the soft c and g, y, silent letters, double letter sounds, word families, and learning how to attach multi-syllable words.

Reading Eggs offers instruction in phonics online within a complete reading programme. The literacy skills developed in each lesson accumulate into a critical mass of literacy, where after Lesson 9 kids read their first book where they can apply their phonics skills.

Testimonials

My children love Reading Eggs. They enjoy learning to read and spell with the lessons. My son struggled with other phonics programmes. But he loved Reading Eggs. Opening a new egg after each lesson kept him motivated to finish the programme. My daughter loved the skill bank part of the programme. She was glad Reading Eggs had a spelling section.

Our students love this site. It is bright, entertaining, engaging and educationally sound. What a fun way to learn to read! They can't get enough of it and ask regularly 'is it our turn on Reading Eggs today?'Katrina Kruger, Elliot Heads State School

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All parents want their children to do well at school and to succeed. However, many simply don't know where to start. Everything seems to have changed since your own schooldays, and you don't want to confuse your children by using different methods to their teacher. Family Learning can help.

What is family learning?

Family learning classes are run in many schools in the UK. They give parents and carers the opportunity to find out how things are taught in their own child's school, as well as a chance to share ideas with other parents and develop their own skills. This family learning website should hopefully provide a useful resource for family learning tutors to use in a class, as well as giving parents who are unable to attend a course the chance to find out how they can help their child.

Here you will find lots of information and links to useful resources to explain various aspects of the UK school curriculum, and how you can help your child to learn without causing confusion.

If reading methods are a mystery to you, visit the reading pages to find up-to-date printable resources, online games and activities to help children learn to read. The phonics and sight word games on this site will help support children following the Letters and Sounds phonics programme.

Explore the site and you will find activities on healthy living, including online games which help educate children on how to stay safe on the roads and at home.

All the games and activities on the site are designed to help children (and parents) learn while having fun.

Family Learning Courses

If you are a parent interested in family learning classes, try contacting your child's school or Children's Centre to ask whether they run them or would consider starting a course.

Headteachers who would like to arrange a family learning course in their own school should contact their Local Authority to find out about funding. Many LAs provide their own family learning courses, while others are organised by further education colleges.

If you would like to help your child to develop their handwriting skills, visit Cursive Writing. The site provides free handwriting worksheets and affordable fonts to match UK school handwriting styles which you can install on your own computer.

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Phonics Bloom create interactive online phonics games to help teach children the relationship between letters and sounds and develop the skills needed to read and write. All our resources are designed by an experienced team of teachers and parents.

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Phonics Games for the Classroom and Home - Phonics Bloom

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Impact study

To what extent does using MyMaths save teachers time?

An impact study was undertaken to understand 'To what extent does using MyMaths save teachers time?' It included interviews with 22 teachers across Primary and Secondary schools in England. The time they reported saving varied from 15 minutes to 5 hours a week, with the average saving being around 2 hours a week.

An impact study is research that investigates a particular change or outcome that a product or service has on the group of people it is intended to help or benefit.
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MyMaths is an interactive online teaching and homework subscription website for schools that builds pupil engagement and consolidates maths knowledge. It is used in over 70 countries by approximately four million students each year!

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Great for early reading

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Teach Your Monster: Free Phonics, Reading and Mathematics Games

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Help children learn with our free, award-winning reading, mathematics and phonics games.

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Completely free and great for KS2 readers

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You can play this online or download an app

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For children in KS2

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Useful for the Y4 times tables check

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Times tables games - Learn them all here!

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At timestables.co.uk you can easily practise all of your tables. The arithmetic problems are clear and simple so you can immediately get started on practicing your tables. Select one of the times tables you wish to practise from the list below and show what you can do on the speed test, Multiplication Tables Check or printout great worksheets.

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If our school closes, we will be granted free access to this website. I think you can sign up for a free trial though if you're interested

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There are some decent games on here

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Maths but not as we know it!

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Might be worth a look

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Reading Eggs is the online learning programme that will teach your child to read using phonics. Register now for your 2 week FREE trial!

Reading Eggs is the comprehensive learning programme that makes learning to read fun for kids. Suitable for ages 2-13, Reading Eggs features online phonics activities and games to help your child learn phonics in a fun, interactive and highly supportive way.
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Uses a systematic phonics method to teach your child to read

Provides detailed assessment reports to help you track your child's progress

Features over 2500 e‑books, many with read aloud options for early readers

Teaches English spelling and pronunciation

Reading Eggs features hundreds of structured lessons and thousands of games and activities to support your child's literacy development in phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension - the five keys of reading success.

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Multi‑award winning programme

My son is four. I really didn't think he was old enough to start a phonics programme. He went from having no phonics knowledge to reading in about a month! The 'game' is so fun for him; he asks to do it nearly every day. This is the best online programme we have found for phonics! J. Thornburg

I was sceptical when I first trialled Reading Eggs as my son had struggled with other phonics programmes. In only a matter of weeks, he was picking up sounds and letters so well. He loves the programme and I'm amazed by his results. Sharon, mum to five-year-old Liam

My daughter is 4 years old and is learning to read. Not only is Reading Eggs educational, but it is really fun. My child especially likes earning 'eggs' as she completes tasks. We have used several other phonics programmes, but Reading Eggs has by far been our favourite. Flora, home school co-op

Your child's reading journey:

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Reading Eggs is the online learning programme that will teach your child to read using phonics. Register now for your 2 week FREE trial! Reading Eggs is the comprehensive learning programme that makes learning to read fun for kids.

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Useful for the Y1 phonics screener

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This is suitable for all ages. Again, you'll need a log on from your child's teacher if you don't already have it

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Staff access

Obtain your login credentials via your PiXL Associate, your RSL or from a PiXL admin member.

If you are a secondary school teacher, please ensure that your students have been uploaded to the Maths App.

Go to "Class lists" and populate the class registers using the "Bulk add students" tool.

If you are a primary school teacher, please ensure that your students have been uploaded to Primary Wise.

Student access

Obtain your login credentials from your teacher.

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Obtain your login credentials via your PiXL Associate, your RSL or from a PiXL admin member. If you are a secondary school teacher, please ensure that your students have been uploaded to the Maths App. Go to "Class lists" and populate the class registers using the "Bulk add students" tool.

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Great for times tables. Please message your child's teacher if you need a code

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Staff access

Obtain your login credentials via your PiXL Associate, your RSL or from a PiXL admin member.

If this is your first use, access the website version of the software from a desktop or laptop using the link above.

Go to "Class lists" and populate the class registers using the "Bulk add students" tool.

Student access

Obtain your login credentials from your teacher.

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You can now access all of the resources contained within the app outside of the app! Our new resource viewer, contains videos, worksheets and PowerPoints. To access this resource, use your PiXL Maths App login details.

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Online reading books

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With a library of activities and resources for every stage of the learning journey, curated by the team at Oxford University Press, we are here with inspiration to help your little ones learn, grow and flourish at home, in the classroom and beyond.

Just click on the sections in the menu to explore by subject, or use the options below to uncover content by age group.

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Oxford Owl for Home: help your child learn at home - Oxford Owl

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Oxford Owl is packed with expert advice, tips and activities to help parents support their child's education. Help your child with reading, phonics and maths.

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A great music site where children can sing songs and practise instruments. Please message your teacher for a log on

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To ensure you're getting the most out of Yumu and our wider platform, please visit our help section once you're logged in.
As more schools close to contain the spread of Coronavirus, teachers are turning to online learning approaches to deliver their lesson content remotely.

Alternatively, log in, click on the Yumu icon at the top of the screen and follow the instructions to set assignments for your students containing your own favourite resources, exercises and pieces, or Charanga's.

Your pupils will also be able to access a range of ready-made Yumu Packages to help grow their interest in specific areas of learning or musical activity.

Chat to a member of the team on +44 1273 823900 or by emailing info@charanga.com .

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Deliver your lesson content remotely with Charanga Yumu - Charanga

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To ensure you're getting the most out of Yumu and our wider platform, please visit our help section once you're logged in. As more schools close to contain the spread of Coronavirus, teachers are turning to online learning approaches to deliver their lesson content remotely.

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Lots of different games

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A fun alternative

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This is great! All children have a log on - please message your child's teacher if you need the code

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Oddizzi Geography resource for primary schools

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Award winning real world geography for kids - original resources and a community of ClassPals for primary/K6 children that build global citizenship skills.

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Internet safety guidance and activities

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Online safety advice, fun activities and quizzes for children aged 3-11

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Useful for mental health support

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Just in case you want to keep up with the news!

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The home of news and fun facts for kids. Find out what is going on, with stories, pictures and videos. Try a quiz or one of our free games.

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A great website about the world around us

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Computer programming with tutorials

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Great for computer programming - all levels

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Please click here if you are not redirected within a few seconds. Everything you need to participate in Hour of Code from CS First. Get started today! New coding activity features a free lesson plan, solution sheets and more. Developed by Google. Free Lesson Plans. Introduction to coding. Free. MIT Scratch.

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These are good videos aimed at primary school aged children

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Body Coach Schools Workout | Monday 11th September

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The children love this! It's free and supports physical activity

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These people have kindly provided free learning for a month.  You need to put in the code  UKTWINKLHELPS. As well as this times tables game, there are hundreds of resources

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How can my children practice for the Multiplication Tables Check?

Twinkl's Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check Practice is designed especially for practicing times tables for the Y4 MTC. Use this interactive resource to give your children practice with learning and recalling their times tables in a test situation. This practice resource is configurable for all abilities, so you can adjust the time allowed per question, the amount of given question and which times tables you'd like children to recap, revise or test. You can make as many adjustable versions of the resource as you like, just add them to different lessons and share with specific groups of children. You can also return to adjust the quiz settings within the lesson at any time.

Designed to the precise specification of the 2019/20 government test and optimized for desktop, tablet or ipad, this is a really handy quiz that can be used independently in the classroom or be sent home for free as part of the Twinkl Go package. Simply configure and add the tailored resource to a lesson and share with a PIN.

How can I encourage revision for the Multiplication Tables Check?

Instant recall of times tables facts is essential for fluency in other areas of maths - it's important that children know them instantly, without thinking about it

And different children take different amounts of practice to achieve this fluency and, in school, there's not always the time available for those children who need more practice than others to get to the same level of fluency.

Using this resource at home gives every child the chance to achieve times tables mastery over however long it takes.

What's the best way to practice for the Multiplication Tables Check?

The Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check will become statutory in 2020. This Twinkl customisable interactive game is perfect for practicing for the check in Year 4, Year 3 and Year 2. That's because this handy resource allows the teacher to adjust the questions and how long children have to answer. So if children are working towards fluency in their times tables, the teacher can gradually increase the difficulty of the resource as their skills develop. Used alongside Twinkl's other interactive and paper-based times tables resources, you've all you need for a comprehensive and varied collection of support for practicing for the check.

What's more, you can share customisable versions of quiz with any number of children via a PIN code for them to use independently in the classroom or for free at home.

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Twinkl's Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check Practice is designed especially for practicing times tables for the Y4 MTC. Use this interactive resource to give your children practice with learning and recalling their times tables in a test situation.

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Quite a lot of this site is free.

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IXL | Online maths and English practice.

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IXL is the world's most popular subscription-based learning site. Used by over 8 million students, IXL provides unlimited practice in more than 5,000 maths and English topics. Interactive questions, awards, and certificates keep kids motivated as they master skills.

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Luddington parents, your child has a log on. Eastoft parents, you can access some of this for free

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A great resource for internet safety - suitable for all ages

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Another great writing site

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Instead of groans at the beginning of a writing lesson, your class were excited to pick up their pencils and you were the teacher that sparked their imaginations!

Even your most reluctant writers are generating adventurous vocabulary, perfecting punctuation and filling the page with no signs of stopping!

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Instead of groans at the beginning of a writing lesson, your class were excited to pick up their pencils and you were the teacher that sparked their imaginations! Even your most reluctant writers are generating adventurous vocabulary, perfecting punctuation and filling the page with no signs of stopping!

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This is great for writing resources

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There are hundreds of activities on here - teachers will set your child some work but they can also access things independently

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Luddington & Garthorpe Primary Be the best that we can be

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I'm not sure if you can get free access to this one but you're able to purchase a subscription for quite a low price. We use this equipment in school and it's great!

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Number Stacks uses a unique combination of stackable place-value counters and video tutorials to enable any adult, regardless of teaching experience, to help children master the foundations of the number system. For less than the average cost of two private tuition sessions, you can get everything you need to build your child's confidence and ability in the key areas of the primary maths curriculum (age 4 to 11).

Over 60 key skills from the Primary National Curriculum have been separated into 5 different categories and aligned by year group. Each Key Skill has its own video tutorial designed to be watched by adult and child together. These videos break down the skills into simple, manageable steps and allow opportunities to practise each step before assessing the child's understanding with a final fluency activity.

The Number Stacks Resource kit contains everything you need (all contained in an A4 zipped tuff-bag) meaning time isn't wasted finding resources before each session. This means that adult time is spent where it matters most - working with the child.

Really good resource for quality of material , simplicity and clarity of the videos. I use number stack for both my 5 years old and 11 years old. the 5 years old has picked up concepts really quickly and effortlessly, the 11 years old has used to it to fill up gaps in her understanding of decimals and percentage. Highly recommended. Alice A 01-08-19

We've used many maths resources over the years but number stacks is by far the children's favourite. The way the program is split into small steps and the hands on system has helped them to understand the lessons and remember what they have learnt. We would recommend wholeheartedly. Caroline T 28-07-19

Click on the PRODUCT INFO page to explore the different elements of Number Stacks, or the BUY & SUBSCRIBE page to order your resource kit and purchase a membership in order to access the video tutorials and games.
If you have any questions, please contact us using the form on the CONTACT US page or email support@numberstacks.co.uk

'During my 16 years as a primary school teacher, I taught child after child who found maths and the concept of numbers difficult to grasp. When my own daughter started school, reading and writing came much easier to her than maths so I decided it was time to try and use my knowledge and experience to help all children understand the foundations of number and calculation. By actually creating and manipulating numbers using the stackable counters, Number Stacks allows children to understand what they are doing rather than just learning an abstract method.' James Aylott - Former Primary School Headteacher and creator of Number Stacks.

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Number Stacks uses a unique combination of stackable place-value counters and video tutorials to enable any adult, regardless of teaching experience, to help children master the foundations of the number system. For less than the average cost of two private tuition sessions, you can get everything you need to build your child's confidence and ability in the key areas of the primary maths curriculum (age 4 to 11).

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This is great for KS1 (ages 5-7) and KS2 (ages 7-11). It has a range of subjects available, with quizzes and videos.

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Primary resources, homework help and online games - BBC Bitesize

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Learn with Bitesize’s primary resources. Explore English and maths games and get homework help. Discover activities for all KS1 and KS2 topics.

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All children have spellings set on here but they are also able to play their own hive games

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The web game for EdShed, including Spelling Shed and MathShed.