Oak National Academy

The Oak National Academy website has free video lessons, resources and activities, covering most subjects, from Reception to Year 11.

Weekly Challenge

From now on our challenges will be for the whole school, and can be found on our new Weekly Challenge page.

This week, as we are unable to have Sports Day this year, we are setting you a sports challenge each day ! 

Videos of New Classroom layouts

We have made videos of the new classroom layouts with details of the new routine for arriving at school.

There are videos for

• Robins,
• Falcons and Blackbirds, 
• the Hall, which is where the keyworker children will be from now on.

** New videos added for  Years 5&6, Kingfisher, Swift, Puffin and Dove for the week beginning 29th June.  Swift children will be back in their own classroom. **

You can find them in the Video Resource Centre :

https://fitzmaurice-primary-school.primarysite.media/playlist/new-classroom-layouts-new-routines

Year 6 : Sorry, we didn't have time to do videos of your classrooms, but if you have a look at the other videos it will give you an idea of what your classroom will look like and the routine for when you get to school in the morning.

Computer Science

The barefootcomputing website has lots of home learning resources to help children learn about computer science during lockdown, and plenty of them don't require screen time !

Check it out here -

https://www.barefootcomputing.org/homelearning

Handwriting

Check out this cool website for help with your letter formation !

http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/skyWriter/index.html

Literacy Radio Show

RadioBlogging.Net is a daily radio programme that teaches literacy and is aimed at families and schools. It is interactive so that children write and their work is published during and after the show. Each day there are spelling, grammar and vocabulary games, followed by creative writing and responding to reading. The show features a poet of the day and author of the week.

Previous shows are also available to listen to.

Click on the link to find out more:

https://radioblogging.net/

Science Story

Follow the link below to hear Dr Tiffany Taylor (Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath) read her new book, Little Letters, which  gently introduces the ideas of genetics and DNA in the form of a bedtime story. (Video link is at the end of the article.)

https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/help-your-children-learn-about-biology-with-a-bedtime-story/

Phonics

Parents' Guide to Phonics

DfE Letters & Sounds YouTube Channel

Starting Monday 27th April.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw/channels?view_as=public

PSHE Resources

PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic) home learning resources from Coram Life Education.

Try out some of their ideas for keeping healthy on the outside and on the inside. This link will be updated with new resources every other week.

https://www.coramlifeeducation.org.uk/SCARF-home-learning-plans-set-1

Website Recommendations

Top Marks
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/
A whole host of activities and weblinks to
other providers for all National Curriculum
and Early Years areas.

Smiling Mind
https://app.smilingmind.com.au/
Meditation. Short audio sessions to help
with mindfulness.

Other Resources and Links

Staff Video for our children - Who's got the toilet roll?

We are missing you all so much that we made you a video. Hope you enjoy it ! Stay safe and keep smiling ! 

https://fitzmaurice-primary-school.primarysite.media/media/fitz-staff-video-whos-got-the-toilet-roll