September 18, 2020
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This week the National Literacy trust launched two new online resources to support families and educators. The first is called Virtual School Library. You can access it here. Each week the Virtual School Library will introduce a children’s author or … Continue reading
May 29, 2020
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As the month of June begins there are some interesting activities taking place to draw our attention to the natural world. The first is the annual event run by The Wildlife Trusts: “30 Days Wild“. At the link you can … Continue reading
May 18, 2020
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There are lots of fantastic resources to support learning at home available on the British Library website. In the one outlined here we are shown the collection of miniature books called The Infant’s Library which were created in the nineteenth … Continue reading
May 12, 2020
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Here is a Padlet with a number of free training and CPD resources for people who want to be or are Teaching Assistants.
April 19, 2020
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As we move into the summer term and continue to educate many pupils at home the amount of resources to support and inspire learning at home as exploded. In the previous blog post I shared information about two national resources … Continue reading
April 19, 2020
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Tomorrow two new national support resources for learning at home are being launched. If you are providing learning for your pupils at home or supporting your own children you might find these useful. The first is by BBC Bitesize. This … Continue reading
April 1, 2020
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Here’s the April calendar for happiness, particularly useful for us all at the moment.
March 20, 2020
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A padlet of ideas and free resources for parents with children at home – lots of individuals, organisations and companies are providing a huge variety of free resources for support, learning and fun.
March 17, 2020
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If you are a TA or HLTA you might be involved preparing work packs or ideas to support learning at home in the coming weeks or months. On the Padlet below are and links to activities and resources that you … Continue reading
January 30, 2020
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Over the last few weeks the FDLT Year 1 students have been making stop motion animations. They used the app ‘StopMotionStudio’ on ipads to make their animations, and the app ‘iMovie’ to edit them, adding sounds and music. The students … Continue reading