These home learning resources are optional and you may wish to use some of these to support your child's learning at home.
History Hunt
Colchester Museums are releasing Home Learning Packs around different history topics.
Pack 1 - Britain before the Romans
Getting Artistic
Firstsite have produced some great Art is Where the Home is Learning Resources for getting arty at home.
Pack 1 Pack 2 Pack 3
Artist Rob Biddulph has created some drawing tutorials for children to do with their parents.
Fantastic Phonics
Here is some great information and advice for parents who want to keep up their children's phonics knowledge at home.
Oak National Academy
The Oak National Academy has been set up to provide children of all ages daily curriculum lessons. It is a government initiative and the lessons have all be created by experienced teachers.
Connecting with Nature
The Wildlife Trusts' website has some great ideas for staying connected with nature whilst being stuck at home.
The WWF are producing a Learn to Love Nature series to educate and inform us all about the wonderful world we live in.
Supporting Families
The school charity Child First has produced some excellent information originally put together to support children and families during lockdown, but which you may still find relevant today when supporting your mental wellbeing and when talking to children about coronavirus.
Super Science
Space Agency Home Learning Resources
Science Fun at Home gives you some fun activities to complete as a family at home.
Check out some of these Science activities from BP as well as these experiments from Whizz Pop Bang and these from STEM Learning!
You can also view the OpenUpScience Newsletters:
Money Sense Maths
You can now download a Money Sense activity pack for: KS1 - What coins and notes do we use?KS2 - Plan a simple budget
Creative Writing
Children can use Pobble365 to practise their creative writing. This website includes a high-quality stimulus picture each day with story starters and sentence work.
You can also try out these 10 minute challenges set by children's authors.




