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LOTS OF ACTIVITIES

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Use BBC Bitesize to help with your homework, revision and learning from KS1 to GCSE. Find free videos, step-by-step guides, activities and quizzes.

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TALK FOR WRITING, AN AMAZING PROJECT TO IMPROVE WRITTEN EXPRESSION

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TALK FOR WRITING, AN AMAZING PROJECT TO IMPROVE WRITTEN EXPRESSION

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What is Talk for Writing?

Talk for Writing is an engaging teaching framework developed by Pie Corbett, supported by Julia Strong. It is powerful because it is based on the principles of how children learn. It enables children to imitate the language they need for a particular topic orally, before reading and analysing it, and then writing their own version.

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Outstanding Teacher Training - Talk for Writing

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Talk for Writing is an engaging teaching framework created by Pie Corbett. Download free teaching resources and book training for your school.

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Welcome to the Body Coach TV where I post weekly home workouts to help you get, stronger, healthier and happier.

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workouts fitness "strength and conditioning" "martial arts" "physical education" "personal training" rutinas exercises "coach gomez"

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CG channel aims to help families to be more active and to improve their fitness levels through the pandemic. Children friendly live workouts Monday to Friday at 9am, start your day with a free home workout that will give you a little boost of energy for the rest of your day.

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Google launches Blob Opera tool. Picture: Google Arts & Culture

Distraction of the day - four harmonious blobs, boinging up and down to bring you joyful music this Christmas.

An interactive vocal quartet of Blobs - yes, Blobs - has been created by Google.

' Blob Opera ' is a wonderfully weird new tool starring four colourful Blobs who have been programmed to sing together in four-part harmony.

They can be dragged up and down to make beautiful music, the Blob with the highest voice always taking the melody while the bassier Blobs do the harmonious groundwork for their star soloist.

Hours will be whittled away, dragging these harmonious creatures up and down.

You can even freestyle with the Blobs in multiplayer mode - and get them to sing Christmas carols, like 'Jingle Bells' and 'Joy to the World'.

No 'Carol of the Blobs' though, sadly. Missed a trick there, Google.
Play Blob Opera here >
The voices are those of real-life opera singers, tenor Christian Joel, bass Frederick Tong, mezzo-soprano Joanna Gamble and soprano Olivia Doutney, who recorded many hours of singing for the experiment.

You don't hear their actual voices in the tool, but rather the machine learning model's understanding of what opera singing sounds like, based on what it learned from the four vocalists.
Read more: Um, Google now lets you search for music just by singing or whistling it >
"The experiment uses a neural network trained on the voices of a bass, tenor, soprano and mezzo-soprano to generate opera singing in real-time from simple movements on a user's device," a post on Google's blog reads.

Google Arts & Culture describes the tool as "a fun way to create a festive opera using machine learning".

For 'Blob Opera', we can thank the Google Arts & Culture Lab, and creative coder David Li. It seems everyone's been enjoying the distraction..

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You can now create your own 4-part 'Blob Opera' with this addictive Google app

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Distraction of the day - four harmonious blobs, boinging up and down to bring you joyful music this Christmas. An interactive vocal quartet of Blobs - yes, Blobs - has been created by Google. ' Blob Opera ' is a wonderfully weird new tool starring four colourful Blobs who have been programmed to sing together in four-part harmony.

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KS2 Science learning resources for adults, children, parents and teachers.

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Topmarks: teaching resources, interactive resources, worksheets, homework, exam and revision help

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Searchable site of thousands of quality teaching resources, interactive resources, homework, exam and revision help. Useful for teachers, pupils and parents.

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Hit the Button is an interactive maths game with quick fire questions on number bonds, times tables, doubling and halving, multiples, division facts and square numbers. The games, which are against the clock, challenge and develop mental maths skills. An untimed, practise mode is available in our Hit the Button app along with lots more extra features.

The activities can be matched to appropriate mathematical ability. Regular use of Hit the Button can help students to sharpen their recall of vital number facts in a fun way and learning multiplication tables need not be boring.

AGE

6-11 Years

SUBJECTS

Maths Times Tables Division Number Bonds Doubles Halves Square Numbers

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Hit the Button - Quick fire maths practise for 6-11 year olds

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Quick fire questions on number bonds, doubles, halves, times tables, division facts and square numbers against the clock. Superb!

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Wild Hamster Has A Graveyard Feast | Seven Worlds, One Planet | BBC Earth

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This is a series of animated short stories to help children learn English with their parents. Each story has a downloadable transcript and an activities pack to help children explore and use the language.

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BBC Learning English - Stories for Children

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A series of animated short stories to help children learn English with their parents.

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The Planet Song | Space Explained by KidsLearningTube

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choonbaboon "songs for schools" "children's songs" "songs for kids" "songs for children"

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Fantastic NEW SONGS and amazing TEACHING VIDEOS, which gets children singing. Play it loud! Sing it loud! Songs and backing tracks on iTunes, Amazon and Google Play. Lyrics at WWW.CHOONBABOON.COM Composer, producer and arranger: Alan Penman (www.alanpenman.co.uk) Video Graphics: Jamie McDonald (www.airship23.com) Singer: Natalie Toyne (www.natalietoyne.com)

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DAILY CHALLENGES

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Granny went to market, and she bought...

Here's the first Languages Week Scotland challenge. Why not try this with your family at home? Or teachers, invite your learners to take part in this challenge online? How long will Granny's shopping list be?

1. "Granny went to market, and she bought..."
Can you say this in the language you are learning at school? Ask your languages teacher if you're not sure.

2. What could Granny buy at the market?
If you are working with your class, share some ideas. If you are with your family, speak to them. Discuss what you could buy in a market, here in Scotland, and what you could buy in the countries where the language you are learning is spoken. Perhaps you could look up some pictures of different markets around the world? We have a few below:

3. What did Granny buy at the market? Start the game. Everyone who is playing should add something to the list, repeating what has been said before.

4. You could play online with your class. Your teacher could start a thread and everyone could contribute their idea in the comments section. As an additional challenge, why not try to recite the list? You could record yourself and upload it to your shared learning space.

If you can share any outcomes on Twitter, please tag us in @LangsWeekScot #scotlandloveslanguages

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Granny went to market, and she bought... Here's the first Languages Week Scotland challenge. Why not try this with your family at home? Or teachers, invite your learners to take part in this challenge online? How long will Granny's shopping list be? "Granny went to market, and she bought..."