Learn from Home

Click on the links below to find out what resources our children can access from home. Further down, you will find information for websites we use regularly, advice and a couple of guides on how to use Microsoft Teams.

Online Safety

With children potentially working in a completely different environment at home, below are some resources for online safety that you and your child can view together.

Also, within each year group above you can find age specific advice.

Family Agreement

Let's talk about life online

Online resources for parents & carers

CEOP - Child Exploitation and Online Protection

NSPCC - Online safety

NSPCC Learning - Download our free Share Aware lesson plans and classroom guidance to help teach your class to stay safe online.

Parent Info - Help and advice for families in a digital world

Parent Zone - Parent guides

Think U Know - Play Like Share: animated series and resources.

Think U Know - Band Runner game and website.

UK Safer Internet Centre - Advice for Parents & Carers

Dealing with Anxiety at Home

Dealing with Anxiety in Children During Covid-19

NHS Stay at Home Multi-Language

Great Websites

Accelerator Reader

Century

Curriculum Visions

myON - Renaissance have released over 7,000 books free on myON to support you while schools are closed. Most of these books are on Acclerated Reader so the children can take quizzes after they have read them.

Off School Flyer - full of ideas for home learning and fun activities. Head to the Activity Zone for 100s of films, created by teachers, across loads of great topics and themes!

Researchify

Times Table Rockstars

White Rose Maths

Other Useful Websites

Story Online

Eric Carle reads The Very Hungry Caterpillar

The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Animated Film

Grammarsaurus

GoNoodle

Spot the Station - Times to view the International Space Station travelling over Leicestershire.

ICT Games

Scouts - The Geat Indoors

You Can Screen The West End's Wind In The Willows Online For Free

Teaglo - list of over 280 website links of free primary resources for home learning, covering all age groups including EYFS

Nation Literacy Trust - Family Zone

Audible - Audible is currently free to use. Listen to your favourite stories…

Phonics Play Comics - useful for our readers who are continuing to work on their phonics

Username: march20

Password: home

Oxford Owl - Free ebooks for children 3+ years

Vooks - Online animated story/picture books

Phonics Play - Interactive Games (linked to each of the phases)

Below you can find various online activities at 'CBeebies':

Phonics

Little Learner Phonics

Alphablocks

Live Lessons document which can be downloaded and edited

Student Access to Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is an online platform used by all schools at Discovery Schools Academy Trust, it allows remote collaboration and working between users. This service is already used widely amongst staff and we are now rolling this out to students to allow remote teaching.

Please click on the links below to find out how you and your child can access the Team platform:

Student Access to Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams Overview