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Free virtual coding programme

With many schools closed due to COVID-19, Amazon Future Engineer has launched a free virtual coding programme available for students, teachers and parents to help build computer science skills for students learning at home.

The website can be accessed here and has been recommended by one of our students. (Added 21.04.20)

• Audible - all children’s audiobooks are available for free while schools are closed.

• Free online learning during Covid-19. Wide ranging courses to consider.

Learn a language for free with duolingo.

Futurelearn homepage.

Futurelearn are now offering courses for schools - Working alongside top education institutes across the globe, FutureLearn is offering school students aged 13+ free courses to support their learning and expand their horizons until September 2020. Students will be able to access tests, gain certificates when eligible and keep access to the course content. (Added 23.04.20)

This is to give you some information on the online courses for Years 11-13 developed in collaboration with a Google Innovator Academy Coach and the TED Ed Talks team.

These courses are facilitated by Cris Turple and are open to girls from across the Trust.

They are designed to run for six weeks, with a live session each week led by Cris.

The timing of the live session will be scheduled so as to complement rather than clash with the normal timetable.

We encourage you to sign up for a course.

Here are some videos and registration links for the courses:

Design Thinking Sprint: Embracing the New Normal (You Tube video)

TED Ed Student Talks: Ideas Worth Sharing (You Tube video)

• This is provided by Google and is a hub of information and tools to help teachers during the coroavirus (COVID-19) crisis.

• Explore distance learning resources for schools affected by COVID-19.

• This looks at Google (Hangouts) Meet for educators.

• This looks at Google Forms for educators. It includes how to use this for creating quizzes.

• List of online education resources for home education.

• This links to beautiful news daily - A collection of good news, positive trends, uplifting statistics and facts all beautifully presented by Information Is Beautiful which takes data, information and knowledge and distils it into beautiful, useful graphics & diagrams.

• Here is a guide to Microsoft Teams for Education.

• This shows how to create a quiz using Microsoft Forms.
  Note - this gives more options than Google Forms.

• British Museum, London - Travel through time & discover artefacts from all over the world

• Bringing Hogwarts to You - magical treats from the World of Harry Potter

• Natural History Museum - activities & crafts to do around the home – also teaching resources and a virtual tour

• Science Museum Group - explore online the five museums in the Science Museum Group

• Tate - Lots to see.

• V&A Museum - the world's leading museum of Art and Design. You can explore the collections.

• You can access free productions by clicking here.

Remember that this is a very helpful resource for you.

A timely reminder for our school community is that the OHS library’s on-line resources are available and can be accessed through the firefly library page as below:

Firefly/Resources/Co-Curricular/Library https://oxfordhigh.fireflycloud.net/library

The first library page hosts a link to our e-book platform where you will be re-directed to the OHS vle-library. You may read any of the available books on-line, but should you wish to download a copy you will need to install Adobe Digital Editions (for free) for the first time of borrowing.

The second library page hosts links with passwords to a host of on-line study resources:

• Masolit – on-line lectures across Classics, History, Psychology, English Lit, Government & Politics, Philosophy

• BMJ – Medical Journal for budding medics

• Dynamic Learning – A Level Review magazine archives across Humanities and Sciences

• Issues Online – Issues for debates linked to PSHCE topics

• E-Magazine – Archive collection for A Level English

• JSTOR – Arts and Sciences scholarly content

• Britannica – Access to Britannica on-line encyclopedia

OpenLearn courses are provided by the Open University and are free to everyone.

• This link takes you to the website which let's you listen to poetry read out loud.

• Helpful collection of distance learning solutions.