Suggested Websites
Once upon a picture
These pictures can be used as creative writing prompts. Just click on an image and discuss the questions about the image. This could lead to some great writing.
https://www.onceuponapicture.co.uk/
The following power point is full of picture prompts for writing.
The Literacy Shed
https://www.literacyshed.com/home.html
This is a great website providing inspiration for stories. There are lots of videos that are short stories or story starts that children could watch. They could then retell the story they have watched or plan their own version of the story, changing the character or the event slightly. The video Catch it, in the fun shed, is a great story to try first. We often use a story mountain to help plan our stories before writing them, then at the end we read it back and edit to try to improve spelling and punctuation and also use more powerful word choices.
10 picture books to shine a positive light in 2020
This list was compiled by the children's author Rachel Bright who is author to a lot of lovely children's books including 'Love Monster' and 'The Lion Inside.'
BBC Schools https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/
From 20th April the BBC are putting a home learning schedule in place, with lots of videos and daily lessons in various subjects. You’ll be able to access regular daily lessons in English and Maths, as well as other core subjects, in an expanded version of our website and also on special programmes broadcast on BBC iPlayer and BBC Red Button. Here is a link to the website if you wish to explore this further.
Discovery Education https://www.discoveryeducation.co.uk/
Parents and students can access this website we use in school from home. To do this, please provide them with the credentials below:
URL: www.discoveryeducation.co.uk
Click “Login” and select “Espresso” or “Coding”
Username: student5744
Password: north123
If you log onto “Espresso”, it will take you to a portal of information and activities linked to the curriculum. The daily news bites are also interesting.
If you log onto “Coding”, you can find coding activities that children have used in their computing lessons.
Oak National Academy
This is an online classroom and resource hub. Just click on the subject menu and select Year 2 and find a lot fun lessons https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom.
NRich https://nrich.maths.org/14600
This is a fantastic website for anyone looking for further maths challenges. The 'Maths at home' section has something for everyone.
ICT Games https://www.ictgames.com/
Another website full of maths and English games. The activity 'LCWC' (Look, Cover, Write, Check) is useful for practising spellings. https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/lcwc/index.html
Oxford Reading
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/ Parents can register with Oxford Owl for free to access free e books for age 3 - 11.
Topmarks
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ This website has a variety of interactive online games and activities in English, Maths and other subject areas.
National Geographic
https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/ A great website with facts, games and quizzes.
Phonics Play
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ This website has a lot of phonics and spelling games. They have provided a free login for families (Username: march20 Password: home) during this period of school closure. Year 2 would benefit from activities from Phases 5 and 6 in particular.
White Rose Maths
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/ This the maths scheme we follow in school and they have provided some online lessons.
Bug Club- Reading
https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?e=-1&c=0 You will have found your pupil login for these eBooks in your school closure learning pack. The children will be able to access books that are levelled appropriately to where they have been reading in class and children can complete short quizzes about the book.
Doodle
https://www.doodlemaths.com/#! You will have found your pupil login in your school closure pack. We will be putting up daily challenges for the children to access which will review their learning from this year.
Fun Science
https://fun-science.org.uk/funscienceblog/ This is a blog created by Fun Science who run afterschool clubs at our school that many Year 2 children attend. There are loads of free experiments, most of which use everyday household equipment. Fun Science are also doing Coding Kits and Coding Club for children during the school closure period. This comes at a cost but you may be interested in looking into this. Information can be found by following this link https://fun-science.org.uk/product/fun-science-code-club-kit/.