Useful Links

Doncaster Summer Staycation

Keeping your children safe and healthy during this time

Government and community advice

Doncaster Community Hub - support for families that might need help during this time.

Covid-19 Leaflet for families.pdf

Mental health advice






Advice for dealing with bereavement

Locality CAMHS Bereavement Booklet for families and professionals.pdf

A fantastic resource written by our local NHS team.

Parents of children with SEND

SEND Poster April 20.pdf
ReallyHelpfulList.pdf

Staying safe online

Tips, advice, guides and resources to help keep your child safe online from 'UK Safer Internet'
Lots of useful advice to help parents and children that are struggling, for example with anxiety.
Online courses for children to complete that teach them about internet safety.
10 Internet Safety Tips - Staying Safe Online
A police organisation where you or your child can report if you worried about the way that someone has communicated with them online.
Online courses for children to complete that teach them about internet safety.

Our Families' Guide Document to online learning at XP

Family Guide to OL@XP.pdf

This document gives a brief overview of online learning at XP.

Much of this information us available here in this website, but this document gives the basic, most important information, all in one place.

Google Classroom

2020 Parents' Guide to Google Classroom.pdf

This is an extensive guide to Google Classroom for parents.

This was not created by XP School but it is really useful for parents that are not familiar with how it works.

Our EMBRACE website with ideas for supporting your son or daughter at home

Our EMBRACE website has lots of ideas on beating boredom at home, and ideas on how to maintain good well-being too.

Students that have been accessing out EMBRACE sessions at school may find some of these ideas particularly helpful.

Government recommended online learning resources

Useful resources

Podcast for curious minds from Brian Cox and others. Schedule here.
Steve is hosting Geography lessons on his Facebook video account.

Mark Thompson

Mark is hosting family astronomy events, search his Twitter feed for #FamilyStargazeWithMark

Video channels

Daily workouts at 9am
Daily music classes
Daily dance routines at 1.30pm
Live cooking at 4pm on Mondays and Wednesdays

If you have younger children too...

Educompendium


Free downloadable workbooks for younger pupils.
Lots of ideas for creative and craft based activities.

If you fancy spending your time doing something different and would like to learn a little more about coding? Why not take a look at the Hour of Code website! Here you can explore a range of coding activities to challenge even the most avid coder...

Time for a little reading and run out of books? Why not try Oxford Owl for home free book Free eBook Library! There are a wide range of texts available to view and read online and I'm sure these will be great on a tablet if you have one so sit back and enjoy a good story.

Sometimes you just need a little funtime and a distraction from all this heavy stuff we are going through right now and that's where a site like Go Noodle comes in. Simply click on the link and follow the fun. If you enjoy Just Dance and the likes, this could be your lucky day - go wild!

Click here for access to all the resources provided by Hamilton Trust to support home learning over the coming weeks. There are resources for Key Stage 1 on the site too if you need it.

Click here to access a range of interactive resources that might support your home learning for your little darlings. Again, there is learning both below and above Key Stage 2 so take a look around.