Home schooling resources
We’re well aware that it can be a struggle to balance working from home with home schooling, and getting this balance right can make all the difference to everyone’s wellbeing in the household.
As you know, there are many online resources to help with home schooling, but it’s good to get some variety in there, to break the monotony and keep your children interested, so we’ve listed some more below for you to check out:
- Mindfulness: Every day at 9.30am, the Facebook group (it’s private, so make sure you join in advance)MiniMe Mindfulness provides a coaching session for kids to help keep them in a healthy mindset as we all tackle a new ‘normal’.
- Maths: White Rose Maths offers five free maths lessons for children in years 1-8, and each lesson comes with a video that you can watch on your own, to understand the lesson first, or with your child. Each lesson lasts 20-30 minutes and the group, made up of teachers and mathematicians, recommends you do one session per day.
- Art: Children’s book author and illustrator, Rob Biddulph, is running draw-along videos every Tuesday and Thursday at 10am which you can leave your kids to follow along to, armed with a pencil and paper while you get some of your own work done, or join in too.
- DT: Study science, engineering and computing with Dr Chips at 10am every weekday, where he teaches children how to code, make musical instruments out of household objects and how cybersecurity works through video lessons and quizzes.
- Food technology: The Feasted Facebook group does daily cooking classes for children, at 10am Monday to Friday. It has 30 minute slots you can book onto as far ahead as 13 May, with themed weeks such as chocolate (where the kids can make recipes such as brownies).
- English: Collins Dictionary is running a word of the day series, which can help you explain what a pandemic is, what furlough means, why we’re in lockdown and more, so you can help keep your children calm and understand why they can’t go to school or see their friends.