Key Resource Reminders this Week
– BBCBitesizeDaily TV shows return on today Monday 8 June.
– Black Lives Matter – Book List Literacy Trust (excellent list, worth a quick message to staff)
– London Maths Week (22 June) Register bit.ly/2XQhPpf strong focus on effective online Maths + Maths Leader from St Joseph’s is hosting the Teach Meet (Wed 24)
Latest Home Learning Resources, Ideas to connect, communicate, motivate and celebrate, track engagement and targeting support to families.
Katy is a member several advisory home learning groups, as well as family lockdown support groups and evidence on declining completion of home learning, families really struggling to motivate children with vital daily activity such as daily reading and exercise, tension of managing screen time and gaming/social media after 3 months of daily use. Andrew hall highlighted the new Young Minds survey today and importance of phone calls and contact to support families, Below are the latest resources, inc a focus on daily reading + lots of challenges (achievable)
- Summer Reading Challenge Reading Agency #SillySquad2020 https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk
- Islington Libraries have eBook / eAudiobook titles available for primary school children http://orlo.uk/rt36j
- Reading Tube Map https://misterbodd.wordpress.com/2020/05/12/reading-for-pleasure-tube-maps-mkii-2020/
- Keep Your Child Reading https://literacytrust.org.uk/blog/ways-to-keep-your-childs-reading-up-while-schools-are-closed
- June 30 Day Wildlife challenge (suitable for Islington Families https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/30-days-wild-homeschooling
- Visual Prompts for Offline Activities to support Family Routine Visuals and Posters New STEM Challenge Starters via https://www.stem.org.uk/home-learning/ in New June Version
- Primary School Radio https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p007g5y4 Curated content from BBC Bitesize lessons Oak National Academy YouTube curated collection
- Refresh reminders to families selected subscription and online resources but keep simple LGFL Busythings, DoodleMaths, 2Simple, Whiterose Maths
Several haringey schools using J2E via LGFL brilliantly! https://coronavirus.lgfl.net/homelearning/J2E - Home Learning Packs collated blog inc Classroom Secrets, Robinhood, TTS, *Islington School Improvement have local versions And Islington Early Years newsletter for Families
Online Safety Project Ideas via Updated lockdown resources LGFL, CEOP, Safer Internet Centre and Common Sense Media summarised here Highlights include:
– Annual Childnet Film Competition is a perfect challenge for Home learning. The deadline is 22 June
– New Project from Newswise and Literacy Trust on Happy News! https://literacytrust.org.uk/resources/happy-news-project
– Online Quiz tools https://kahoot.com/ https://quizlet.com/en-gb https://quizizz.com/ https://www.educandy.com/
Computing and Gaming Workshops for Families This Week
https://code.org/break And https://www.digitalschoolhouse.org.uk/live-workshops And https://www.raspberrypi.org/at-home And https://www.stem.org.uk/home-learning/primary And https://www.barclays.co.uk/digital-confidence/eagles and a new STEM magazine for 7+ and https://idea.org.uk/
CPD This Week via Webinars from LGFL inc SEND, CAS and DFE Cloud offer
- LGFL Extensive Online Training https://www.lgfl.net/training/ and helpful summary https://curriculumblog.lgfl.net/2020/06/lgfl-online-training
Extensive LGfL Google training can be booked here: https://sites.google.com/appsevents.com/lgfl-gsuite-training/home - LGFL SEND https://coronavirus.lgfl.net/Inclusion
- Computing at Schools communities https://community.computingatschool.org.uk/events & new https://www.computingatschool.org.uk/remote-teaching
- Teach Computing have adapted programmes to enable teachers to participate from home https://teachcomputing.org/courses
- Exciting 2 week PD Programme later in June https://www.computingatschool.org.uk/news_items/918
- New https://edtech-demonstrator.lgfl.net/ with training webinars this week And financial support from DFE with cloud strategy
Continued Support from Islington Lead teachers – Remote Learning, Computing and Online safety, 1-1 sessions inc OFSTED Deep Dives and here (lockdown pushed Online Learning up the educ agenda)
* Assessment tool from Simon Haughton https://sites.google.com/view/simonhaughton/knowledge-organisers
* Mark Boylan, CAS leader has shared a progression template for Computing (Contact Katy for a copy)
Primary Schools have considered live video conferencing for teaching lessons and leaders are unanimous that instead videos will be uploaded. There will be schools who do choose to use VC but this must be done with careful consideration, as there are obviously key safeguarding concerns, as well as practicalities of teaching classes of primary age children, if not already established. https://www.safeguardinginschools.co.uk/live-meetings-with-zoom/ Andrew Hall https://swgfl.org.uk/resources/safe-remote-learning/ https://coronavirus.lgfl.net/
Parent Support direct with Bradley Dardis – offering phone and other support https://twitter.com/BradleyDardis/status/1245258066196680704
J2E have released j2Homework and some guides: https://just2easy.com/media/J2homework.mp4 & https://just2easy.com/distancelearning/index.html
Office 365 support is also available for all LGfL Schools https://education.microsoft.com
Teaching & Learning, Best Practice and Guidance support: jose.kingsley@lgfl.net
Technical support, set up and guidance: https://support.lgfl.org.uk