EXTERNAL WEBSITES: 5-6 YEAR OLDS
These carefully chosen websites will provide great ideas for over the summer and will also build skills that will help to get your child ready for Year 1. Click on the image to take you through to the website.
PHONICS
Polly's Phonics: Useful website to practise phonics and keep children's skills up over the summer. Videos and activities from Espresso.
MATHS
White Rose Maths: A useful website for consolidating and extending early maths skills. Daily content uploaded each week
FRENCH
Funtime French: Hours and hours of video at your fingertips to help your child learn French through fun songs and activities.
PROBLEM SOLVING AND EARLY CODING
Get creative and build your own city with Nina and the Neurons. Explore her entire series by clicking here
EARLY COMPUTATIONAL THINKING
Barefoot Computing Home Learning: Really fun and simple activities away from the computer that provide the pre-cursor to computational thinking and problem solving for building computing skills.
SCIENCE & EXPERIMENTS
Explore science and creativity with lots of practical ideas for developing curiosity and scientific thinking in this series of experiments with Alex, Max and their dad.
Tips for Reading with your child at home.pdfREADING
The Education Endowment Foundation research page has produced a range of resources for parents to support home learning. These 'Supporting Reading at Home' tips provide helpful hints for encouraging reading and development of early reading skills.
READING TOGETHER
Free stories for children of all ages. Audible is a free website where children of all ages can listen to hundreds of Audible audio titles across six different languages - English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Japanese - for free, so they can keep learning, dreaming and just being children.