See our ‘Home Learning’ galleries each week, here!

In the event of academy closure, we endeavour to create as little disruption to our pupils’ learning as possible. With that in mind, we would like to share the following resources with you:-

Year Group Resources for Home Learning at OCPIA:-

• Reception Year resources
• Year 1 resources
• Year 2 resources

Internet resources

• Discovery Education’s Espresso site holds resources that are suitable for EYFS right up to Year 6. Please go to www.discoveryeducation.co.uk and click ‘Log in’ (top right) and click ‘Espresso’. Log in with the username: student355
• The password to the Espresso website will be sent to parents via ParentMail/text message/paper copy on 18.03.20.

There are a number of useful websites, which your child could access to support their learning:

•  Hamilton Trust – offers many free teaching resources. This ‘Home Learning’ page contains lots of resources for home learning. Weekly learning packs for English and Maths for various year groups are available. Links to other subjects are also at the top of this page.
• The BBC Bitesize website is particularly useful – www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary contains a wealth of resources and activities for a wide range of curriculum subjects.
• BBC2 Learning Zone is a useful website, containing a range of learning activities – www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/38BYD39DV9TQmJ7xhM4gytG/primary
• Twinkl Parents’ Hub https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/parents – offers a wide range of educational worksheets and resources to support the whole curriculum as well as access to eBooks and online games.
• National Geographic’s website www.natgeokids.com/uk/ – provides a wealth of information and activities for children to access at home, linked to the natural world
• BBC Newsround https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround – a useful resource to keep children up to date with current affairs in an age appropriate way
• www.oxfordowl.co.uk – contains a wide range of resources to support reading and maths.
• http://primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk – this is particularly good for history, geography and science.

Reading

Please find some fantastic online reading resources below; particularly useful now that we can’t provide books to you from our school library.

Online reading resources sheet

The TES pull-out guide 100 fiction books to read before leaving primary school  is a useful general resource.

The Norfolk Education Library Service has a monthly newsletter available which contains links, activities, and much more! Click the links below to view the most recent:

• ELS Book Bites newsletter June 2020
• ELS Book Bites newsletter May 2020
• ELS Book Bites newsletter April 2020 (includes many resources and info for home learning)

An archive of their newsletters is available here.

Learning via Museums

A number of the major museums have excellent children’s zones within their website.

We would recommend the Natural History Museum’s site (nhm.ac.uk) and in particular the ‘Discover’ section https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover.html  which we think will inspire children to learn more about their world.

The Science Museum https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/ also contains lots of informative and fun activities for children. These by can be accessed via the ‘See and Do’ section – https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do but please do check that the materials selected are aimed at KS1, as the website does provide resources for older pupils which will not be suitable.