Home Learning
Teachers have prepared tasks and activities for children to consolidate their learning. The work packs we sent home can also be accessed by clicking on Work Packs in the menu on the left hand side of this page.
What is a typical school day?
Pupils start the day at 8:40 and spend the first thirty minutes self-registering what they want for lunch, completing a morning task e.g., a maths task, spelling or handwriting, and teachers use this time to run intervention sessions with small groups or individual pupils based on their assessments of the previous day. |
Assemblies take place everyday from 9:10am-9:30am. Headteacher on a Monday, Singing Assemblies for KS2 on Tuesday and KS1 on Thursday, Wednesday is often related to Maths or a special religious fesitval and Friday is our Celebration Assembly. Reception don't start joining routine assemblies until after Easter.
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At 9:30am pupils all start there lessons until playtime. These lessons are usually Maths or English, depending on the Year Group. |
The children then have their playtimes: these are either at 10:30am-10:45am or 10:45am-11:00am. |
After this until lunchtime, which again is at different times but is 50 minutes for everyone, the children will do the other subject of either Maths or English.
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Lunchtime ends and in the afternoon there could be one lesson of 1.5 hours or two shorter lessons e.g., of 45 minutes each. These are typically science, music, art, history, geography, PSHE, PE, French, RE, DT, and soon to be Computing lessons. |
At 2:30 classes stop for a class story. This is a protected time in the timetable. |
Depending on the age of the children, they start getting their things ready for the end of the day between 2:55 and 3:00pm. |
Astronauts reading stories from space.
https://storytimefromspace.com/library/
The author Oliver Jeffers will read one of his stories and talk about some of the things that went into making it; it will be added to his website.
https://www.oliverjeffers.com/
As well as the work packs:
Twinkl.co.uk have kindly produced free home learning packs for children in self-isolation or in the event of a school closure. These can be accessed here: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/search?term=school+closure Go to the website and then click on the appropriate year group. |
Twinkl have also offered every teacher and parent a one month ultimate membership totally free of charge so children can have access to high-quality learning during any periods of disruption. Setting this up is easy- go to www.twinkl.co.uk/offer and enter the code UKTWINKLHELPS. |
We use White Rose Maths Hub for our maths curriculum. They have announced that they will set up resources for teachers to set work for pupils who are not able to go to school, from next week. Here is the website: https://whiterosemaths.com/ |
Pupils in Years 1-3 have access to Purple Mash where teachers set To Do tasks linked to pupils' learning. |
Pupils in Years 2 and 3 also have access to Times Tables Rock Stars online. |
Phonics Play is another website that has announced that all of their games and resources are currently free. https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ It will be great for home learning for pupils in Reception and Year 1 in particular, because the children always love the games and they would be practising reading real and alien words.
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Kids Classroom Secrets have also announced free access to their online learning activities: https://classroomsecrets.co.uk/home-online-learning/ Carol Vorderman's website, The Maths Factor is giving parents free access while schools are closed (usually £2 per week): https://www.themathsfactor.com/ |
Here are some other free websites with activities you may want to consider for your child(ren):
www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories
www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/
www.learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/games
PICTURE NEWS
Picture News is an organisation which creates weekly projects for children. They have kindly offered to do this for free during the period of school closure for most children. They produce projects for EYFS (we would include Reception and Year 1) and older children. The resources have the date in their title so it is clear which resources are part of the same project. We hope parents find them useful to work through with their children. Please click on the relevant bars on the menu on the left hand side of this page.
Clicker 8 (Windows/Mac)
Guide to installing Clicker 8
Clicker 8 – hints and tips for getting started
Clicker Writer (iPad/Chromebook)
Guide to installing Clicker Writer on an iPad
Guide to installing Clicker Writer on a Chromebook
Clicker Writer – hints and tips for getting started
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The Essex Primary Headteachers' Association have created a website with links to resources for home learning for those children and adults socially isolating:
Keeping a Diary
It may be cathartic if children kept a diary during the school closure. Writing something down is in itself, one way of dealing with a stressful, worrying situation. Who knows, your child's diary may be a historical source one day!
Oak National Academy
The Academy offers 180 video lessons each week for schools to use, across a broad range of subjects. The lessons cover children in Reception through to Year 10 and are free to use by both teachers and young people. Access the lessons here: https://www.thenational.academy/
BBC Bitesize
The BBC has today launched an education package across TV and online, featuring celebrities and teachers, helping to keep children learning at home and supporting parents. Access the resources here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize.
Parents Working from Home
If you find yourself working from home over the coming weeks and months, there are a number of free online SEN courses you may wish to work on for your own professional development, irrespective of whether or not you are a teacher. They are:
Speech and Language and Communication:
https://www.thecommunicationtrust.org.uk/projects/professional-development/online-short-course/
Trauma Informed Practice:
https://www.acesonlinelearning.com/
Understanding ADHD:
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/understanding-adhd
Addressing Dyslexia:
http://addressingdyslexia.org/free-online-learning-modules
Furthermore, Harlow College have a range of free online courses in:
- 1Understanding behaviour that challenges;
- 2Understanding autism;
- 3Understanding specific learning difficulties;
- 4Working with individuals with learning difficulties;
- 5Understanding children and young people's mental health
If you are interested, you can access them here:
https://www.harlow-college.ac.uk/study-options/category/e-learning?f=1
Information For Parents
- 12th October 2018.docx
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- A - Z of Little Parndon
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- A-Z of Little Parndon for Parents
- Childrens Book June 2019.pdf
- EYFS Part 2
- EYFS School Closure Pack
- EYFS website part 3
- Home Learning Year Five
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- Home Learning Year Two Summer 2
- Homelearningfinal Year 6
- KS2 SATs results analysis July 2015
- Little Parndon Reading Scheme
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