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Distance Learning

Please find below information to support home learning if self-isolation or school closure is required.

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What will home learning look like if I need to self-isolate or children are unable to come to school?

As you know, there has been a need for all schools in Wales to close due to Covid-19 precautions. During this time, we would like to provide opportunities for children to continue their education at home and we are planning tasks and activities that pupils can access via distance learning apps and websites. 
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Your child will be provided with usernames and passwords for several of these websites and apps (this may be sent home on paper for those in school, but they will be available for children via digital means if pupils are already self-isolating). User guides for parents can be found below and methods of contacting teaching staff will also be available to support families in using these resources on each classes' page.

Home learning grids will be provided every fortnight to provide a range of activities and tasks to complete at home. They will signpost where to access tasks/activities and will also suggest some activities to complete every day. Work will be 'handed in' digitally as children complete the work and teachers will be able to view and comment where needed. If you need more resources, please see below to see a range of other sources of resources and information which can support you with home learning.
Home Learning Grids

Please see below a useful guide to explaining the Coronavirus to children which you may find useful...

Coronavirus guide for kids
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What else can I do to support my child's learning at home?

Here are some links to useful websites, apps or resources to support home learning...

Numerical Reasoning practice for Foundation Phase and Key Stage 2

Click the link to the right and use your Hwb log in details to access this set of numerical reasoning games/challenges at home.

Cardiff City Football Club's Joy of Movement Units

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Real PE and Wellbeing

Real PE at home includes an online programme which supports families to be active, play and learn together. It includes a programme specifically for children in Early Years and Key Stage 1 with 12 themes, 6 areas, over 250 activities and challenges and 1000s of hours of fun and activity.For children in Key Stage 2 there are carefully selected personal best challenges, skills and games designed for the home and garden. Daily and weekly guidance is provided for both programmes in addition to an option to choose your own themes and activities.

There are so many benefits to being active, not only to our physical wellbeing but also to our emotional and mental health, especially in such testing times for all of us. We hope that the ideas help support you and your family to stay fit and healthy in the coming months. Here are the details to access real PE at home: please click on the link opposite to access the site.


Real PE and Wellbeing

Save the Children Resource Pack- activities, tips and inspiration for you and your children during lockdown.

Save the Children Covid-19 resource pack
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Ways to stay active at home ideas

​30 Day Lego/Minecraft Challenge

Here are some fun building challenges you can do at home using Lego or Minecraft. It would be lovely if you could share photos of your child's creations with us through Twitter.  Remember to include @Darranpark in your tweet.
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Twinkl

This is a website teachers use in school to find resources to support teaching a range of subjects. Twinkl provide informative resources, worksheets, activity ideas, ebooks and more. Twinkl are currently offering free access to all of their resources to everyone during this difficult time, so please feel free to take from this site any additional activities you might like.
Twinkl
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Oxford Owl

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Oxford Owl is where you will find a selection of reading books from our school's reading scheme and many other resources to support phonics, spelling, numeracy and much more! You will need to sign up for a free account to access these resources.
Oxford Owl Home Learning resources
eBook library

Letters and Sounds

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Letters and Sounds is the phonic scheme that we follow in school to support our teaching of phonics, spelling and reading. This website will give you information and resources for free, no need to sign up. If you would like more information, don't forget that we have information about this in our Parent Zone too.
Letters and Sounds website
Parent Zone information

Scholastic

Scholastic is offering a range of digital texts/books for use at home.
Scholastic
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Muddy puddles

Muddy Puddles offers lots of ideas to keep you entertained as a family both indoors and in the garden.
Muddy puddles
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BBC bitesize

BBC Bite Size has a wealth of hands on activities for all age ranges.
BBC bitesize
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Sum Dog

Sum Dog is a maths programme that offers fun mental maths challenges.
Sum Dog
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Duolingo

Duolingo is another website that you can sign up for free with which will give you access to lots of language learning sessions in a wide range of languages. The children have loved using it in class this term so far to learn a new language for our Language, Literacy and Communication Area of Learning focus.
Duolingo
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Apps

Maths Zombies
Squeebles
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j2launch
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Scratch Jr
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