Here you will find support and guidance for home learning tools to support teachers, parents and students. At this worrying time, we are offering schools a whole school licence to the website for a year. Just click the picture to sign up.

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Some general thoughts on organising home remote learning:
In this video, Mr P talks through his top tips in organising home learning due to school closures. These include:
  1. Have realistic expectations, only look to set around 2 hours a day on top of reading everyday. 
  2. Be aware of children in class who may not have access or engage.
  3. Don't look to introduce anything new, if only half your class access the work, you're going to have to redo it anyway when you get back to school. Focus more on practice and consolidation of past topics and units.
  4. Don't overload on the tech, as much as it is great that so many companies are offering support, introducing or expecting some staff to use more than 3/4 won't work. Focus on a few key tools and use them effectively. I have shared mine further on in this page.

For a comprehensive list of all the edtech tools available click here.

Some home learning support AND GUIDANCE FOR PARENTS AND TEACHERS, USEFUL LINKS (non Tech based)

Links for all the resources and websites mentioned:

READ READ READ READ - I cannot stress enough how important this will be, every day! Every single day! 

Limit Screen time but use the time to talk to your children about their use of technology. Take time to do different activities together, exercise, cook, see more examples below.

Home Learning Packs Mentioned:

BBC Daily Lessons

Oak National Academy

Robin Hood MAT resources.

Hamilton Trust - Maths and English Home Learning Packs

TTS Home Learning Packs

Teachit Primary

Third Space Learning

The Maths Factor

White Rose Maths Hub

EAL HUB

FREE Audiobooks from Audible

​BBC SUPERMOVERS

GoNoodle

The Great Indoors from The Scouts

NumberFun

Twinkl Home Access - The following video explains how to get FREE access to all of Twinkl's resources.
Non-screen activities from Pobble and Spread The Happiness:

SOme Daily Online Learning Opportunities

Joe Wicks AKA The Body Coach will be doing daily PE sessions at 9am

Gareth Metcalfe from I See Maths will be sharing daily maths lessons and videos.

Jane Considine will be doing daily Live videos with ideas and support for English.
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Night Zookeeper will be doing an Online Story Event.

Mr Mc Phonics - Phonic Support for EYFS and KS1 - Daily at 11am.

LIVE Dough Disco with Shonette and Spread the Happiness

Dr Chips' Daily Dose of a Science, Engineering or Technology activities to do at home - Every Day at 10am

Read Write Inc Daily Phonics Support Videos.

Some home learning support AND GUIDANCE FOR PARENTS AND TEACHERS, USEFUL LINKS (Tech based)

Remote LEarning Tools for TEachers

Seesaw

This is a student driven, digital portfolio app.
Click here to download the app

Click here for CPD support with the app

Setting up seesaw and preparing home learning option
My go to learning tool to create a dialogue for remote home learning is SEESAW. There are others that some schools will use, Google Classroom, Showbie, Class Dojo etc. But in my opinion, Seesaw is the easiest to use and quickest to set up. In this video, I quickly demonstrate how to set up a class and get the home learning option enabled. 

To access videos of ways to use Seesaw with your class click here.

For schools looking at using google tools for home learning click here

Video demonstration of Seesaw home learning for Parents
Here is a video tutorial for you to share with parents if you choose to use Seesaw for remote home learning. In this video, I explain how to download the app and log in using the unique home learning QR code and how to use some of the tools to complete tasks set by the teacher. I hope you find it useful.

App.Seesaw.Me

Here is a Youtube Link for the video to share: ​youtu.be/W9FyB1SCbeM

How Children can record themselves read aloud at home and share with their teacher

Here is another tutorial video for parents who are using Seesaw to support home learning. In this video, I demonstrate how pupils can record themselves reading aloud safely and share with their teacher via Seesaw.

​Please feel free to share with your parents.

How to Set up a Live Online Video Lesson with your class

A TUtorial for Zoom - Video Conferencing with your class.

I have had a few messages from teachers looking for a way to create a live lesson online with their class. After some research, I have come to the conclusion that I feel Zoom.us is the easiest one to use. So this video explains how it works.

A MORE DETAILED LOOK AT ZOOM FOR LIVE ONLINE LESSONS

I wanted to go into a bit more detail about the features and tools within Zoom. I hope this gives you a better insight into how this tool can be used to lead an online live video lesson with your class.

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Other Tech Tools Mr P will be using:

Again, I want to make clear, I am not necessarily saying these tools are better than others, these are ones that I know work as I use them regularly and there are plenty of examples on my site.

Learning by Questions

LbQ is a classroom app filled with curriculum-aligned Question Sets and immediate feedback to super-charge learning.

Click here to view the app (60 day FREE trial)

Click here to access CPD support.

Quizziz

Quizziz is an online quizzing and assessment app. Completely FREE to use.

Click here to view the app

Click here for CPD Support

Apple Clips

Clips is an iOS app for making and sharing fun videos with text, special effects, graphics and more.

Click here to view the app

Click here for CPD Support
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Explain Everything

Explain Everything is an online digital whiteboard tool that allows teachers to create video demonstrations of anything.

Click here to view the app

Click here for CPD support.

Screencastify

Screencastify is the #1 free screen recorder for Chrome. 

Click here to view the tool

​Click here for CPD support.

More simple and easy ways to use seesaw to support learning at home.
Exclusive to Subscribers

HOME LEARNING SUPPORT IDEA 1 -READING TO YOUR CLASS

In this first video, I show how you can still share your class reading book and read aloud to your class through Seesaw.

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HOME LEARNING SUPPORT IDEA 2 - READING A PICTURE BOOK TO YOUR CLASS

In this video, I demonstrate another simple way to share a whole book to your class to ensure you can still read aloud to your class.

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HOME LEARNING SUPPORT IDEA 3 - HOW TO SAVE A POWERPOINT AND SHARE IT THROUGH SEESAW.

​This was something some of my staff struggled to do, so I have made a video explaining how to turn a powerpoint into a PDF where it can be shared to your class on Seesaw.

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HOME LEARNING SUPPORT IDEA 4 - SHARING WORKSHEETS FOR PUPILS TO ACCESS AND COMPLETE THROUGH SEESAW

Continuing our look at home learning support, this video explains how to save a worksheet to seesaw for pupils to complete on their device or on paper and share back to you.

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HOME LEARNING SUPPORT IDEA 5 - SHARING WEB LINKS THROUGH SEESAW.

It is amazing to see how many companies are offering quality resources for FREE at the minute. In this video, I demonstrate how you can share web links to your class through Seesaw.

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HOME LEARNING SUPPORT IDEA 6 - SIMPLE MATH TUTORIAL VIDEOS

In this video, I demonstrate how teachers can create simple maths tutorial videos to explain strategies before setting some examples for pupils to complete.

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HOME LEARNING SUPPORT IDEA 7 - MATHS PROBLEM SOLVING TUTORIAL VIDEOS

Building on the previous idea, this video demonstrates how to create a tutorial video to explain reasoning and problem solving challenges.

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HOME LEARNING IDEA 8 - ONLINE QUIZZES WITH YOUR CLASS

In this video, we look at the brilliant Quizziz tool as a way for pupils to complete quizzes from home to show their understanding of any topic.

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HOME LEARNING IDEA 9 - WE'RE GOING ON A SOUND HUNT

​In this video, I demonstrate a quick and easy activity to support some phonics learning. Pupils can go on a a sound hunt to find pictures of things that have a particular letter or sound.

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HOME LEARNING IDEA 10 - SOUND HUNT IN PIC COLLAGE

For any teacher not using Seesaw, I demonstrate a quick and easy activity to support some phonics learning. Pupils can go on a a sound hunt to find pictures of things that have a particular letter or sound.

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HOME LEARNING IDEA 11 - SPELLING INVESTIGATION

In this video, I demonstrate a quick and easy activity to support spelling for children working from home. This can help with root words, prefix and suffixes and challenges children to find rules and patterns as they improve their spelling.

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HOME LEARNING IDEA 12 - A SIMPLE LABELLING ACTIVITY

In this video, I demonstrate a quick and easy activity in Seesaw that will allow pupils working from home to share their knowledge and understanding about different topics by labelling images on their device.

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