We hope you find these website links, resources and activities useful to support learning at home 🙂

Glasgow City Council’s site for to support home learning.

Imaginative and outdoor play ideas

Imaginative and outdoor play

Websites

Arcademic Skill Builders Free multiplayer educational games, math games, language arts games, and more!

Autodraw Free online drawing

BBC Bitesize Fun stuff to do and learn every weekday

BBC Dancemat ICT programme to develop keyboard skills to support writing

CBBC Games Enjoy a wide selection of games

Crickweb 252 free educational interactive teaching resources and activities

Doorway Online A collection of free and highly accessible educational games that learners will find easy to use independently.

Duolingo Learn a language for free!

ICT Games for Learning Educational games

Letters and Sounds A range of free, online games to develop knowledge and understanding of letters and sounds. Suitable for ages 5-7.

Primary Homework Help Easy to read information and facts on many homework topics including tudors, victorians, romans, rivers and mountains.

Storyline Online Streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Viola Davis, Chris Pine, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, James Earl Jones, Betty White and dozens more.

Tate Kids The Tate Museum website for kids has lots of suggestions for art and creative activities.

Topmarks Educational Resources and Games

Twinkle*Please Note to subscribe to this site you need to register and use the code UKTWINKLHELPS.

Reading Activities

Book Bingo A variety of reading tasks

National Literacy Trust
Lots of ideas for parents to support their child’s literacy and includes a range of items including, milestones, activities, tips and information as well as recommended books for each of the stages listed below.
Literacy Activities – 3-5
Literacy Activities – 5-7
Literacy Activities – 7-11

Oxford Owl Information for parents on Learning at Home. Both teachers and parents can register. Includes a range of ideas, tips, games to play as well as access to free e-books (ages 0-11).

Phonics Games Phonics games to help your child to practise sounding out words, which will help them to read.

Reading Follow Up Tasks

Read Write Count Parent Club
Features Read Write Count games and challenges parents can use – Primary 1-Primary 3

Make Your Own Wordsearch

Scholastic Learn at Home Projects to keep children thinking, reading and growing

Scottish Booktrust
Useful information and advice on ways to encourage reading from ages 3-14

Writing Activities

BBC 500 words Radio 2’s short story-writing competition for kids, in association with Oxford University Press.

Writing Ideas

Writing Ideas for Confident Writers

Spelling Activities

Spelling City Build Literacy skills with vocabulary and spelling

Cursive Handwriting Practice P3

Maths Activities

Active Maths Games

CoolMath4kids Games and Puzzles

Family Maths Toolkit Tips on helping your child with maths and family activities

March Maths Calendar 1st Level

March Maths Calendar 2nd Level

Maths Games Free Maths games and skills practice

Maths is Fun Home Learning tasks, games and puzzles

NRich Games and activities to work on at home

Sumdog*All pupils have been issued with a log-in

Times Tables Learn your times tables

White Rose Maths White Rose Maths in partnership with the BBC Bitesize Daily team has developed a 12-week learning programme for the summer term. This scheme is designed to help children be ready for their next year of school.

Wild Maths
Brand new website from the NRich team for all ages. Free, open access to all. Great games and puzzles that develop problem solving skills

Coding

Blockly Games for tomorrow’s programmers

Code.org Take a Code break or create a Code Project

Scratch Create stories, games or animations

Music

Mrs Thomas Music Create YouTube Channel
Music songs and games

Glasgow CREATE fun based music activities

CREATE has launched a ‘Love from Glasgow’ song writing competition!

The aim is to encourage creativity and spread messages of positivity to friends, family and the community through music! This could be as simple as taking an existing song and creating your own lyrics or making up a rhyme accompanied by a homemade drum!

Open to Primary and Secondary pupils – entries can be submitted by individuals, groups or families.

Tweet entries to using #GetGlasgowComposing #LovefromGlasgow

Closing date is Friday 8th May

Prize vouchers kindly donated by Haydock Music
The ‘Get Glasgow Composing’ document below has all the details

#GetGlasgowComposing

#GetGlasgowPlaying

#GetGlasgowSinging

Music Lab. Children can create their own music through fun, hands-on experiments

Singing
Taking Part ( Pirie Park’s very own song)

Full Version

Instrumental

Taking Part Lyrics

P1-3
The Boy and the Bunnet
A play with music. Scots and Gaelic language; musical instrument demos; games and other interactive activities.

BBC Bitesize 1st Level Music
Video clips and lesson ideas to explore different styles of music as well as lessons in rhythm, pitch and singing.

‘Melody’ on CBeebies
Learn about classical music and develop creative listening skills.

CBeebies ‘Watch and Sing’
Sing songs from some of the most popular programmes on CBeebies

P4-7
The Boy and the Bunnet
A play with music. Scots and Gaelic language; musical instrument demos; games and other interactive activities.

BBC Bitesize 2nd Level Music
Video clips and lesson ideas to explore different styles of music as well as lessons in rhythm, pitch and singing.

BBC Ten Pieces
An extensive selection of classical and art music with detailed lesson plans and ideas for interdisciplinary learning. The music is presented by celebrities who explain the background of each piece.

Classics for Kids
Learn about composers and play music games.