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During the summer holidays, the Google classrooms will continue to be accessible however they will not be monitored by the teachers during this time. The teaching staff have put together lots of additional activities for you which can be accessed by clicking on your year group. In addition, all the website links below will remain. |
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PARENTS
We hope that you find some of these links useful. Please check the suitability for your children. Many have chat/comments sections which may not be age appropriate and some access Youtube.
(We recommend that in your YouTube settings, Restricted Mode should be switch ON and AutoPlay switched OFF. Whilst these will help minimise inappropriate content, children should always be supervised when online).
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Parley First School chose to use Google Classroom to support families during the isolation period. Please follow this link: https://classroom.google.com/
You will then need to sign in/up with an email address then add your class using the class code.
In addition to our existing Learning Zone, this extra page will be continually developed to help point you in the direction of some additional sites that maybe of interest during the weeks to come! In response to the ongoing situation, many of these sites are now offering free access during this period.
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Blue Peter 2020 Sport Badge Earn your 2020 Sport badge! To get your hands on this limited edition badge, all you have to do is try a new way of getting active. |
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From Helicopter Stories and Poetry Basket... They are asking for children to share their thoughts and feelings of the current situation. |
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LITERACY A site packed with interactive phonics games and many teaching ideas to help children to learn to hear and read sounds. FREE |
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CHILDREN'S BOOK Dave the Dog is worried about Corona Virus |
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THE OUTDOORS Help your child embrace the great outdoors and create your own DIY "Forest School" at home with these back-to-nature learning ideas. |
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Edinburgh Zoo Live Webcams As we can't get out to visit anywhere at the moment, why not check out some of the LIVE webcams from Edinburgh Zoo. |
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Amazing Virtual Excursions These websites offer amazing virtual learning experiences for kids in the comfort of their very own home! Let’s go on some virtual excursions… |
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EXERCISE Dance Classes with Oti Mabuse Live on YouTube everyday at 11.30am but can be viewed anytime. |
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LEARNING RESOURCES Some of your usual LearnPad resources have been transferred to this website while you are learning from home. You can access them from the class pages or by clicking here. |
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It can be accessed here: https://classroom.thenational.academy/assemblies/kindness# |
Spread a Little Kindness The Duchess of Cambridge led an online assembly for the Oak National Academy on 18th June, during which she spoke about the importance of mental wellbeing among children. The theme of the Duchess’ assembly was to encourage children to explore ways in which they can show kindness and recognise the benefits of kindness to others.
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Scrabble and Word Games Scrabble is an excellent way to practice your knowledge about English language and vocabulary. |
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LEARN AND REVISE BBC Bitesize Loads of fantastic resources and information. |
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EXERCISE Yoga with Cosmic Kids Yoga, mindfulness and relaxation designed specially for kids aged 3+. |
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EarthCam Travel the world without leaving the comfort of your own armchair! Where will you go first? |
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LITERACY These free decodable comics maybe useful at a time when you can’t physically exchange your children’s decodable reading books. |
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STORYTIME David Walliams is releasing a free children's audio story every day for the next month. |
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Learn about Bikes! Many of us are going out on our bikes more, so it is a good time to learn how they work and how to look after them! https://kids.kiddle.co/Bicycle ALSO, this answers that age old question, should a tyre be more like an apple or an orange? It’s also a great demo showing how to check bike tyres are pumped up properly, and how to pump them up if not. Please feel free to share this link with families. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuIDGzIRcos&list=PL5fRA-WbPmixfUNtun1V1ihqjXgspOXrg&index=5&t=0s Sustrans is working with our school to encourage people to walk, scooter and cycle. We want to understand more about how you travel to school and would like to ask you to complete this short survey. It should take around five minutes, and is open now until Sunday 12th July. https://sustrans.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/parent-survey-june-2020 Thank you, Mrs Bingham, Parley Bike Champion, on behalf of Sustrans School Officers for Dorset. |
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... FOR PARENTS ... Wellbeing and mental health during Covid-19. A guide to looking after yourself and others. |
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DAILY LESSONS You’ll be able to access regular daily lessons in English and Maths, as well as other core subjects, in an expanded version of the BBC Bitesize website and also on special programmes broadcast on BBC iPlayer and BBC Red Button. |
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Mr. Brown Recommends... |
Some Ghostbusters themed activities to celebrate the release of the new movie (whenever that maybe!) |
Some website links for further activities------> |
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MATHS with Carol Vorderman FREE access to her site. |
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LITERACY Teach your Monster to Read A fantastic free resource for young children in the first stages of learning to read. |
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Live Webcam : Houston Zoo Giraffe Feeding Platform from 12.00 GMT |
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World Geography Games This free website is great for learning about geography topics. There are interactive activities on continents, capitals, flags, regions, islands, rivers. |
Whilst we are not able to organise any bike activities at school this term, our Sustrans Bike It Officer has sent a colouring activity sheet for you to print and colour at home.
KS1 - How amazing can you make your bike?
Sustrans Colouring by Numbers
KS2 - Can you make an eye catching poster?
KS2 Air Quality Poster
And.... did you know.... air polution affects the growth of litchen!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1s_gm2wxbU&list=PL5fRA-WbPmixfUNtun1V1ihqjXgspOXrg&index=19&t=0s
