COVID-19 and home learning

This page brings together useful resources for supporting families with home-learning while settings and schools are closed during COVID-19 restrictions. See also: Twelve links for supporting home learning: early years and primary External links: Playing and Exploring The Gruffalo website Siren films website has short courses using their video clips from Dr Sue Allingham and Anne O’Connor […]

Twelve links for supporting home learning: early years and primary

Here are twelve links with free ideas to support play and learning at home, suitable for early years, nursery, reception and school aged children in lower primary years  Growing and learning together from Highfield Nursery School, Children’s Centre and Daycare is a page with recipes, ideas and their new PDF leaflet “Activities to try at home” […]

Supporting families to support their child’s learning

Since the introduction of the EYFS framework in 2008 there has been a huge emphasis upon encouraging parents to become engaged in their children’s learning. Research has recognised that parents are children’s first and most enduring educators and that improving the home learning environment is an important role of the practitioner. In 2004 Kathy Sylva […]

Sharing home learning at a distance – loving home learning in lockdown, by David Yates

Entering the unknown It was extremely hard and emotional to say goodbye to the children and parents in my Reception class at the end of the day, before our school closed to all but a small number of children, due to the Coronavirus pandemic. We did not know when we would see each other again, […]