Additional activities
General Resources and Activities:
Parents can sign up to have free daily resources for their child’s year group.
https://www.theschoolrun.com/daily-resources-programme
Reading, Stories and Audio Books:
Oxford Owl have a free eBooks collection, developed for children aged 3–11 years old. These online books help your child practise reading with a range of over 100 free eBooks. You can create a free login by clicking the link below and this will give you access to tablet friendly ebooks.
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/ Free audio books: https://stories.audible.com/discovery
Oliver Jeffers 'Stay at Home Story Time': https://www.oliverjeffers.com/abookaday
David Walliams is releasing a free audio story every day https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/
KS2 enjoyed a visit from Tom Palmer last year. Here he is reading some of his books: https://www.youtube.com/user/TomPalmerBlackOp and here's his website: https://tompalmer.co.uk/
Music:
Derbyshire Music Partnership are providing weekly activities, ideas and resources for continuing music learning from home – for all ages and stages of education: https://derbyshiremusichub.org.uk/get-involved/music-at-home/music-at-home.aspx
Music – a song a day: https://sameboatmusic.com/pages/sameboatmusicathome
Maths:
The Maths Factor, created by Carol Vorderman is offering a free monthly log in. Let Carol teach maths to your children at home. Activities are suitable from age 4-11: https://www.themathsfactor.com/
White Rose Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/ Children are familiar with using these maths resources in their lessons at school. White Rose have resources for each year group.
Mindfulness and Movement:
Go Noodle provides mindfulness and movement videos: https://family.gonoodle.com
Book Review writing:
Try to read as many books as you can. Click on the links to download templates to write a book review. These could be sent to your teacher who can share these either on the website or Dojo. How many reviews can you do?
Book Review template 1 Book Review template 2
Animals and Nature
Harpur Hill children love learning about nature and animals. Here are some websites and suggested activities.
The World Wild Life Fund has two websites:
Suitable for older children: https://www.wwf.org.uk/
Children can research endangered animals and deforestation. You could design a poster about climate change or a fact file about an animal.
Suitable for younger children: https://gowild.wwf.org.uk/
There are lots of fun animal activities including a shoe box safari on this website.
British Birds - the RSPB has a great website for kids, including online games and activities:
https://www.rspb.org.uk/fun-and-learning/for-kids/
Children could create a report about a bird or a poster about British birds.
You could keep a tally of the number of birds found in your garden and put your findings into a graph.
Story Writing:
Mystery story – watch an episode of Scooby Doo or similar and write your own mystery story.
Historical Story - watch an episode of Horrible Histories (available on BBC iplayer) and write a diary as if you are a character from history.
Adventure Story - read a book such as The Famous Five, Alex Rider, Dragon Rider or similar. Write a story based on a character and setting from your favourite adventure stories.
Animal Story - read a book about animals such as Wind in the Willows, Dog Man, Butterfly Lion etc. Write a story based on a character and setting from your favourite animal stories.
Wimpy Kid Writing:
Most of the children at Harpur Hill love Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid books.
Read as many of them as you can.
Which is your favourite? Write a review and give it a star rating. There is a review template further up this page.
Write your very own Diary of a Wimpy Kid based on imaginary or real school life. Try to include some illustrations!
Review Writing:
We don't want the children spending all their time on screens! However, we know that many children enjoy playing computer games and watching TV. Let's try to make it educational!
Write a review for a game – here's a template to help you: video game review template (Word download)
Write a review about a film/TV show – click on the link for a template: tv/film review template
