Home Learning Advice and Support
Home Learning Advice and Support
This section of our website provides resources to support your child's learning if you are self-isolating at home. The resources provide a mixture of activities to support:
- Emotional well-being
- Physical exercise
- Academic learning 
It is important to maintain all 3 of these areas. To support emotional well-being, we strongly recommend that you establish a clear timetable that suits your circumstances but allows you to maintain a shared routine. Routines will ensure that everyone knows what is going to happen and will reduce arguments about what to do and when.
A possible timetable for a key stage 2 pupil might be:
Before 9.00am | Wake up | Eat breakfast, make your bed, get dressed, brush your teeth, put dirty washing in the laundry. |
9.00am | Exercise or physical activity | Play in the garden, time yourself doing steps, star jumps or marching up and down stairs or complete Change4life activities. |
10.00am | No electronics | Simple daily activities - times tables, simple sums, flash cards, reading book, information book research, handwriting, spellings, book, study/revision guides, write a story/report/poem |
11.00am | Creative time No electronics | Lego, drawing, painting, model making, role-play with puppets/dolls dressing-up, singing, cook/bake. |
12.00pm | Lunch |
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12.30pm | Helping hands | Help to clean and tidy your home e.g. wiping the table/ doors. Wash the dishes etc. |
1.00pm | Quiet time | Reading, puzzles, games (dominoes, cards, board games, keep a diary, watch a film) |
2.30pm | Electronics OK | Online learning activities – see Year Groups and Activities website for ideas. |
4.00pm | Exercise time | Play in the garden, time yourself doing steps, star jumps or marching up and down stairs or complete Change4life activities. |
5.00pm | Dinner |
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5.30pm | Helping hands | Help to clean and tidy your home e.g. tidy your bedroom |
6.00pm | Free time Electronics OK | Creative or quiet time activities.
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8.00pm | Bedtime story No electronics or TV | All children: Read a bedtime story or share your ‘Story of Today’ to review the main things that have happened and your ‘Story of Tomorrow’ so that you know what is going to happen the next day. |
9.00pm | Bedtime
| For those children who follow the daily schedule and don’t argue!
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This is simply an example of what you might follow to keep a structure under these extremely unusual circumstances. Whilst we would normally break up the day by going out and about to grandparents, shops or the park, this may not be possible during the coming weeks. What we do know is that structure and routine are really important in maintaining emotional and physical well-being of everyone involved.
Please see our activity pages for more ideas.
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