If you are required to stay at home to self isolate, please remember that this is just for a short period and won’t be forever. You are still a valued part of our school community, even when you are learning from home.
St David’s Primary School is committed to ensuring a continuity of education provision for children and young people during any period of self-isolation for pupils. We know that this may be a difficult time so please click the image below to read the Local Authority’s guidance about Home Learning and how to make sure you are also looking after your health and wellbeing too:
This page is dedicated to sharing resources, tips and ideas of things that might be useful to you during this time as well as targeted activities for pupils at each stage. Please share you Home Learning with us via Seesaw. If you need any help to access this or another copy of the access code/login details, please get in touch by phone or email. If you require resources to allow your child to work from home, please get in touch and we will arrange to drop these off to you in a safe delivery.
Targeted Activities
Please click on the appropriate link below to access a 2 week activity pack for your child at their working level.
Home Learning Grid for pupils working at Early Level – P1
Home Learning Grid for pupils working at First Level – P2, P3, P4
Home Learning Grid for pupils working at Second Level – P5, P6, P7
Home Learning Ideas
Learning opportunities come in all shapes and sizes and from a wide range of sources – we don’t have to be in the class with a teacher to achieve. Families are the first educators of children and have a wealth of skills and knowledge to share. All opportunities are learning opportunities. A period of self-isolation is the perfect time to Play, Learn and Grow together.
Wider Achievement
Youth Scotland are running a campaign offering materials for parents and carers to help their children to gain qualifications at home . Hi-5 and Dynamic Youth awards offer a fun, home-based way to learn and earn accreditation for ages 5+ and 10+.
Youth Awards like Hi5 and DYA are a great way of recognising children and young people’s personal achievements which is a key part of Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence. Recognising personal achievements can have a really positive effect on young people’s confidence and motivation and help them connect experiences at home or in their community with all aspects of their school learning.
Find out more here
Play
At school, our pupils are encouraged to be inquisitive, curious and explore the world around them at all stages. We know children need play to thrive and make sense of their world, and that play supports their mental and physical health and wellbeing. Play Scotland have created this pack in order to support children and families to stimulate their imagination, creativity and play time. Many ideas can be led and carried out by children themselves, with very little adult support and some are good fun for all the family! Many are suitable for indoors or confined spaces, and most are low cost or free. Play has never been more important to help children get through these difficult times but given the current pressures on families, it can be a real challenge for all of us to find time to play. The Home play pack has some great tips and ideas for helping families to fit play in to your day. Click on the image below to access the pack or have a look at the Play Scotland website for more ideas:
Scotland Learns
Education Scotland are supporting schools and pupils during this difficult time and have published a new resource called Scotland Learns which provides resources and activities to support learning at home. There is a website as well as a weekly newsletter that you can sign up to for Parents/Carers. The content is for all ages and aims to give ideas and suggestions to help parents/carers deliver learning activities. You can access the resource by clicking on the image below:
BBC Bitesize Home Learning TV Programmes
The BBC have created some exciting new resources with teachers and other educational experts to support home learning at this time. The resources can be accessed online, through BBC iPlayer and using the red button on your TV. It features a mix of videos, animations, practice activities, quizzes and games.
You’ll find daily lessons for home learning in Maths and Literacy for every year group, as well as regular lessons in Science, Social Subjects, Technology and more. Check back every weekday for brand new lessons – you will also find a schedule of what is coming up over the next few weeks here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons
Outdoor Learning
If possible, getting outside is one of the best ways to take a break and relax, even if this can only be in your own garden at this time. Remember that there is no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothes! Over the last few years, our pupils have become increasingly used to taking their learning outside and exploring the environment around them come rain, wind or shine– this is always one of the aspects of the curriculum that they are most passionate about! You don’t need any special resources just dress for the weather and head to the garden.
Love Outdoor Learning Ltd – are a Scottish company who specialise in outdoor learning activities for children, within the natural environment. They are sharing their Mini Fledgling sessions for free through their Facebook page.
Each Monday, they will share a well loved story with you and then throughout the remainder of the week at 10.30am, they will provide an activity or craft to try at home or in the garden based on that story, all with minimum resources required.
So far they have explored well loved books such as ‘We’re going on a Bear Hunt’, ‘Three little pigs’ and this week they are doing ‘Superworm’. You can catch up with all the previous posts by searching for #MiniFledglings
Lego Challenge
If you are a lego fan and have any spare lego, duplo or similar type of building blocks at home then here is a set of challenges for you. Don’t worry if you don’t have any lego – you can use anything you have at home. The limits are your own imagination. When you have completed a challenge (and shared it with us!), why not challenge someone else at home and compare your results or even create some new Lego Challenges and share them to the school page for others in our school community.
Health & Wellbeing
Physical and Mental Health and Wellbeing are always top of our priority list, even more so during these times.
Family Member of the Day – In school everyday a pupil is chosen at random to be the Pupil of the Day – they are given special privileges and are also given compliments from their peers as well as from themselves. Why not try to establish this routine in your family? Who will be first? How will you choose the Family Member of the Day? What will their special privileges be?
Parent Club Scotland – We are all adjusting to new circumstances and challenges which can feel overwhelming at times. Parent Club Scotland has lots of useful advice for families adjusting to Home Learning and the impact of the current crisis on our home life. Click on the link below to access their page:
Coronavirus: A book for children – Axel Scheffler, illustrator of the Gruffalo, has illustrated a digital book for primary school age children, free for anyone to read on screen or print out. The book is all about the coronavirus and the measures taken to control it. It has been written in consultation with education and medical professionals. The book answers key questions in simple language appropriate for 5 to 9 year olds:
• What is the coronavirus?
• How do you catch the coronavirus?
• What happens if you catch the coronavirus?
• Why are people worried about catching the coronavirus?
• Is there a cure for the coronavirus?
• Why are some places we normally go to closed?
• What can I do to help?
• What’s going to happen next?
Click the image below to access the book:
CAMHS
https://www.camhs-resources.co.uk/
Child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) is part of the NHS who provide services that work with children and young people to support them their emotional or behavioural wellbeing.
This site was created for young people, carers and professionals to pool together lots of helpful resources from across the internet that are available to help support your mental health and well-being during these difficult times.
Sciences
Glasgow Science Centre – will be bringing a bit of science into your home every day at 10am to help keep everyone inspired in these challenging times. You can join them every day on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram at 10am each day. Search for #GSCAtHome
Numeracy
Team REN Maths – Our fantastic central team have provided fun daily maths challenges for pupils across Renfrewshire. The maths problems are accessible to all and are designed to suit a range of stages and abilities. This means families can work on a task together.
The challenges are meant to be a bit of fun and not cause additional stress or workload to families. Hints will be provided where appropriate and the solution to the problem will be issued the following day. They are presented via a short video clip and can be found here:
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/re/resourcestosupportlearning/team-ren-maths/
RBS Money Sense – The Royal Bank of Scotland have launched Money Sense Mondays through their Facebook page and You Tube channel. Hosted by experienced teachers and community bankers, they will be looking at Using notes and Coins, Budgeting and other aspects of financial education for 5-18 year olds.
Financial skills are essential for life and not just as part of the maths curriculum – what better time to start learning than now!
https://rbs.mymoneysense.com/home-learning/
Literacy
Big Cat – If your child is missing reading the Big Cat books we use in school, you can access a wide selection of these books online. The books are banded so that they provide an appropriate level of challenge for the reader. There is also a mix of genre and subjects to suit every reader’s discerning tastes. Click on the image below to access the site. Collins have kindly provided free access for families at this time – to access this, you need to use these login details:
Username: parents@harpercollins.co.uk
Password: Parents20!
Expressive Arts
Creative Arts – The Glasgow School of Art Community along with Jonny Kirkwood, the Garnetbank Creative in Residence, have put together a series of creative lesson plans and activities for families to do together during lockdown. They are based around materials you can find at home and aim to encourage playfulness and imagination! Click the image below to find out more:
Music Service
Each week in school we are visited by a number of music specialists to work with our children throughout the school. They are sending us some resources and ideas of how you can keep up your connection with music whilst at home.
Try this song maker experiment: https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/
The best way is just to explore it and find out what it all does using your ears. You can adjust the tempo (speed) at the bottom, as well as changing the sounds next to the play button (bottom right).
Once you get to grips with it and have created something you like the sound of, it would be great if you could hit save, then copy the link below as a comment below. That way we should all be able to hear each others’ music!
Here’s a link to one we wrote earlier. Hope you like it 😀
https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/song/6009497504972800
Sean Gray:
Sean has previously delivered tin whistle lessons to pupils in St David’s and many of them have been gifted their tin whistle at the end of their tuition to keep at home.
Sean is keen to develop and broaden the pupils’ knowledge and learning in this area. Have a look at the youtube video below. The lyrics are in the comments section – why not sing along or even make your own musical instrument to play along with Sean.
RSNO
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra is committed to engaging the people of Scotland with music across key stages of life from Early Years through to Later Life. During the school closure period, they are providing weekly challenge videos on youtube to get the whole family involved in music at home whilst having fun. You can find their videos here or have a look at a sample video by clicking on the link below:
Do you like Samba music? Perhaps you could try to make a Samba beat in your own kitchen using everyday items just like the RSNO:
NYCOS
NYCOS are Scotland’s Youth Singing Organisation who provide opportunities for young people and teachers to develop singing skills across Scotland. The offer a daily challenge video that is suitable for pupils from P1 through to P7. Click here to access them or have a look at a sample video below:
Have you ever, ever, ever heard a song as fun as this?
