All of these home learning ideas have been curated by the Southbank International School.
They have pulled together an immense list of home learning and activity resources, covering;
– Home learning sites
– Physical exercise
– Some fun stuff to do at home
– Off-screen ideas
– Daily and non-daily online events
Thank you for pulling these great resources together!
Home learning Websites
These websites are all fantastic to keep your children learning in these uncertain times.
Link to site: https://www.twinkl.co.uk
Twinkl is the ‘go-to’ for teachers and great for home learning too! They have kindly opened the doors to all for the duration of school closure and have given a code ‘UKTWINKLHELPS’ to access everything free for a month in the event of school closure.
Link to site: www.phonicsplay.co.uk
This website is usually a subscription-based website and is a firm favourite with year one. They have a vast range of fun phonics games for all levels in the Early Years and KS1. Access is free while schools are closed.
Link to site: http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk
A great website from the makers of the Biff and Chip books. There are some simple maths games and access to a massive range of ORT books. Very useful.
Link to site: www.topmarks.co.uk
It has a search facility to find activities or support for everything from understanding the need for sand and water play to tips on helping your child read. The section on learning numbers through play is particularly useful. You can also use the search facility for links to other educational websites.
Link to site: www.ictgames.co.uk
Probably the best website on the net for literacy and numeracy. A firm favourite with the children in year one. This website also has games and activities suitable for reception through to year 3.
ICT also has fantastic literacy activities. The games will need your support to set up and talk through.
Link to site: www.mathszone.co.uk
This website has a lot of maths games covering many different areas of the subject from simple addition and subtraction through to reflection and rotational symmetry and many activities suitable for your older child.
Link to site: http://www.familymathstoolkit.org.uk/activities-for-children
Advice and activities on how to help your child with maths at home. Some lovely activities which mean the children might not even realise they are practising their maths skills!
Link to site: http://www.ixl.com
An American site with some fantastic maths games and activities grouped into topics. This is a wonderful site to help with difficulties in specific areas of mathematical understanding.
Link to site: http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk
A fantastic primary school website which has games and information on a range of subjects.
Link to site: www.crickweb.co.uk
This website has links to games and activities from Kindergarten right through to the end of key stage two. There are some elementary literacy and numeracy games which your children will enjoy.
Link to site: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/
A collection of resources to support learning in all areas of the curriculum.
Link to site: www.getepic.com
For kids books and movies, a great website and app with lots of books. While it is a subscription app, you get the first month free. I would recommend using for the free month and then making your own decision.
Link to site: www.wowscience.co.uk
Quite a few ideas for free activities which the children could access at home. Use the ‘Activities’ section to find the best exercises for home learning.
Link to site: https://bpes.bp.com/resources/list
BP provides some helpful introductory videos for Science, Geography and Design Technology
Link to site: www.spreadthehappiness.co.uk
Find links to Happiness TV channel here for primary aged children
Link to site: www.wonderopolis.org
Another great link for Social studies, History, Geography and science.
Less educational – more fun!
Link to site: www.funbrain.com
A website with stories to read and games to play. You can browse by age level.
Link to site: www.activityvillage.co.uk
A website with activities galore colouring in pages, origami, recipe ideas and doodle books. This website will give you thousands of exercises ideas to keep the children busy. Sadly many of the printable resources are now part of the members-only section.
A collection of delightful home learning activities. It even has some step-by-step instructions for fantastic origami models including a brilliant section on paper planes.
Link to site: https://www.kiddle.co
Kiddle is a child-friendly search engine by Google. A great place to find out about particular topics while staying safe online.
Link to site: www.natgeokids.com
National Geographic for kids has some stunning images and interactive games and colouring books. A lovely site for children to learn more about animals, wildlife and the world around them.
Link to site: www.nasa.gov/kidsclub
Fun facts and games about space.
Link to site: www.code.org
There are courses and games for learning how to code on this fabulous website. All classes are free of charge and have an excellent range of levels.
Ideas for physical exercise at home
Link to site: https://www.cosmickids.com/
Fantastic fun yoga stories for children. Will keep them entertained when they need downtime!
Link to site: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/supermovers
Fun curriculum-linked resources to get your class moving while they learn.
Link to site: www.gonoodle.com
Music and mindfulness for children. It is an American website with lots of fabulous dance routines and guided mindfulness sessions
Handy Apps
Here’s a list of a selection of great apps. We can’t guarantee it, but these might be available for android too.
Jungle Time. A great app to help your child with telling the time:
Forest Phonics: A wonderful app to support phonics and word building skills. Fantastic.
ABC Pocket Phonics: This is a wonderful app based on Letters and Sounds, the phonics teaching programme used throughout many UK schools.
This aims to improve your child’s understanding of place value and number bonds. A good game that’s suitable for your older children too. The developer ‘motion maths’ also has a number of apps for older mathematicians.
Percy Parker on iTunes is a wonderful times tables app for the end of year one onwards. It teaches them their times tables in a really enjoyable way – but the songs will stay in your head!
On recommendation
Reading Raven at £2.99
An engaging app that teaches children phonics with a step-by-step program, one lesson at a time. We love the clear letter sounds as you click on each letter. It’s also engaging with fab illustrations to hold a child’s interest as they learn.
Meteor Mat
An ‘explosive’ maths challenge with an arcade game feel – find two numbers to make the answer shown on the planet and watch as they explode!
The game gets faster as you go up through the levels and it becomes exciting and challenges children to solve the sums more quickly. A great way of improving the speed of mental maths.
Twinkl Phonics
A wonderful app aimed at improving phonics. This app covers all phases of letters and sounds.
Off-screen ideas
Daily events online
9.00am – PE with Joe Wicks
10.00am – Maths with Carol Vorderman
11.00am – English with David Walliams
12.00pm – Lunch (cooking with Jamie Oliver)
1.00pm – Music with Myleene Klass
1.30pm – Dance with Darcey Bussel
2.00pm – History with Dan Snow (free for 30-days)
4.00pm – Home Economics with Theo Michaels (Mon/Wed/Fri)
Non-Daily events online
Science with Professor Brian Cox, Robin Ince & Guests
For your older kids, here are 50 free revision resources for 11+, GCSEs and A-Levels:
Any suggestions?
Please do share comments below or on our social channels:
