by Carol Rainbow | Apr 1, 2020 | Curriculum
Kidadl Lockdown website informs: “We might be locked down, but we’ve got the key to spending time at home over the next few weeks. There are loads of free activities for the whole family to get involved in, from STEM experiments and kid-friendly workouts to...
by Carol Rainbow | Apr 1, 2020 | Curriculum
Make Interactive Games with Koji, a free platform that allows users to create amazing interactive games without needing to write any code. Each completed game is allocated a link which users can share with their friends. There are many templates to start users off....
by Carol Rainbow | Apr 1, 2020 | Curriculum
The Great Indoors – Bear Grylls Survival is a website where he shares 100 ‘indoor survival challenges’ for kids under isolation. They comprise of a whole set of activities ranging from: “ boosting communication skills to problem-solving and include...
by Carol Rainbow | Mar 29, 2020 | Curriculum
Purple Mash Update: Just in case there are readers here who did not get the messages from Purple Mash, here is the latest e-mail: “We’d like to send a thank you and well done to all of you teachers and parents adjusting to home learning. We think...
by Carol Rainbow | Mar 25, 2020 | Curriculum
Craft ideas for the stay at home period offers so much more than what parents often think of as home schooling. Cooking, sewing, making, mending, etc are all valuable to children’s development and much closer to the heart of many adults than trying to teach...
by Carol Rainbow | Mar 25, 2020 | Curriculum
Cooking with children is a great way to use practical maths, discuss hygiene and have some extra curricular fun together. Helping to prepare the family meal will also be useful for their development. There are lots of extra simple recipes, some very easy cakes and...
