Curriculum Support

This page provides staff with useful links to activities to support remote learning.  You may wish to signpost learners to activities online or download and adapt activities to share with learners in your class.  There are many links on the pupil website page which staff may also find useful.

Staff working in Early Years may wish to access some of the resources and activity ideas on the Early Years page. 

January 2021

To enhance and complement the work practitioners, schools and local authorities are already undertaking, Education Scotland have curated a single list of the wide range of support available on remote learning from national organisations:

https://education.gov.scot/improvement/supporting-remote-learning/supporting-remote-learning

 

The OECD reportQuality Education for all during Covid-19 crisis‘ published in April 2020,  lists 10 resource pages that they have found to be the most useful and practical to meet our community’s needs.  The full report and resource links can be found on the OECD report page.

Education Scotland – Supporting online learning – links for practitioners

May 2020 –  Have a look at the first issue of the Scotland Learns: Practitioner Newsletter to see hints and tips for supporting children with autism and new online learning activities across English and Literacy, Numeracy and Mathematics, as well as Health and Wellbeing. You can also discover how West Lothian Inclusion Service and Laxdale Primary School in Lewis are approaching the four contexts.

https://wakelet.com/wake/6cb85071-dd72-4709-bc5c-19374b58cd78

https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/a-trauma-informed-approach-to-teaching-through-coronavirus

https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/teaching-through-coronavirus-what-educators-need-right-now

Literacy

JK Rowling

https://www.jkrowling.com/j-k-rowling-grants-open-licence-for-teachers-during-covid-19-outbreak/

Audible – free books

Oxford Owl

https://creativestarlearning.co.uk/c/literacy-outdoors/

https://www.getepic.com/educators – books online

https://www.penpalschools.com/coronavirus-update.html

https://www.pobble365.com/

Numeracy

https://highlandnumeracyblog.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/remote-learning-ideas-and-activities-for-parents-and-teachers/

https://nrich.maths.org/fortwo

https://www.youcubed.org/resource/youcubed-at-home

https://diagnosticquestions.com/

https://teachinnovatereflectblog.wordpress.com/2020/03/22/ecpd-recommendations-for-maths-teachers-while-working-from-home/

http://www.mathematicsmastery.org/our-response-to-coronavirus-covid-19

https://www.teachitmaths.co.uk/membership

https://thirdspacelearning.com/blog/home-learning-resources

https://earlymath.erikson.edu/

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/

https://www.hoddergibson.co.uk/teejay

https://matholia.com/uk

Health and Wellbeing

https://education.gov.scot/improvement/learning-resources/compassionate-and-connected-classroom/

https://education.gov.scot/improvement/scotland-learns/health-and-wellbeing-activities/resilience-alphabet/

 

Science/Outdoor Learning 

National Geographic Kids https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

Mystery Science https://mysteryscience.com/

The kids should see this https://thekidshouldseethis.com/

Crash course kids  https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcoursekids (Science videos)

Detectives https://naturedetectives.woodlandtrust.org.uk/naturedetectives/

https://wowscience.co.uk/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/4_11/site/science.shtml

https://www.tigtagworld.co.uk/mindmap/#/modules/

https://www.powerpackpals.com/

STEM activities

https://www.rhet.org.uk/teachers/resource-portal/

Global Citizenship

https://www.unicef.org.uk/rights-respecting-schools/coronavirus-resources/

https://worldslargestlesson.globalgoals.org/all-lesson-plans/

http://www.seet.org.uk/euroquiz/resources.php

Modern Languages

Online Resources for Primary

Northern Alliance Language Challenge – sheet 1 2nd level

Northern Alliance Language Challenge 1 – 1st level

General

https://www.myworldofwork.co.uk/partner-resources

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/go

https://twitter.com/littlelessons20

https://radioblogging.net/

https://sites.google.com/pk.glow.scot/pkcdigitalschoolshub/home?authuser=0

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/gc/mrfeistsblog/remotelearning/

Fischy Music – lots of resources and online assemblies

https://flipclacks.org

https://ed.ted.com/lessons

https://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/

Art for Kids Hub – https://www.youtube.com/user/ArtforKidsHub

Tate Kids

https://kahoot.com/

https://www.duolingo.com/

Free packs from Education Suppliers

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/curriculum-for-excellence/school-closure-resources-scotland-cfe – Free access to resource packs from print off booklets to early, second, third level online resources to follow. 100’s of hours of consolidating learning…. free.

5-7 TTS activity booklet

7-11 TTS activity booklet

List of Educational Companies offering free subscriptions:

http://www.amazingeducationalresources.com/