Get Creative!

50 Things to Do before you’re 11 3/4 is a fun and whimsical list of activities to keep you vusy all year round from watching the sunset to making wildlife art. Click here to start your list! Scotland’s Enterprising Schools are releasing project to spark creativity and build on skills for learning, life and work   Adobe posted a colouring booklet for each week of Spring 2020 featuring the work

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Get Knowledgeable!

SUMMER CHALLENGE #DrJoScience online summer holiday #STEAM club A science club with some added creativity thrown in! Investigate the wondrous world of art and science this summer 🎨🧪 5 week #STEAM club with interactive videos and bumper activity packs full of creative follow up investigations. Available to start from mid July. Click here to find out more.   GROW YOUR BRAIN! If you’re looking for a great science experiment Science Sparks is bursting with

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Home Learning 2020 – Lockdown

A warm welcome to our home learning page. This is a very unsettling time for us all. We’re very aware that different families may need different things. For some families managing home learning can’t be a priority right now, whilst for others, the structure of ‘lessons’ and links for learning will help ease anxieties. Only you will know what works best for your family. Use as much, or as little,

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Online Spelling Games & Activities

Click here to play Spelling City games – you can use your own spelling list with.    Click here to explore lots of word games to help improve vocabulary and spelling on Top Marks.      Click here to play Spelling Frame’s games. They have list for different stages Year 1 = Primary 2, etc.   Click here to play games on Slime Kids.   Click here to play the

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Family Fun – Word Games

Word Ladders  Decide on a theme, such as animals, then make a written list of words within a given time. The next word must begin with the last letter of the previous word. e.g. tiger – rabbit – terrapin – newt.   Word within a Word Think of a word, then try to find as many words as possible within that word. e.g. important = pin, ant, rot, etc.  

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Family Fun – Numeracy & Maths

Number Tennis Serve a ‘number’ under 100. Your partner must return the serve by responding with the number that would make your total 100, within a strict 5 second time limit. e.g. 1) serve “45” 2) responds “55”. Variations: 5, 10, 20, 1000, 1 (0.3 served / 0.7 responded)   Gimme 5  Give your partner a start number and ask them to count backwards or forwards. They must say the

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Number of the Day

Choose a number P3-4 Numbers to 100 P5-6 Numbers to 1000 P7 Numbers to 10000 and decimals numbers to 1dp 2. Do something to it! (Choose from the list below) Round it to the nearest 10 Write it in words How many tens? How many units? How many hundreds? Partition it (236 = 200, 30, 6) Round it to the nearest 100 Write it in roman numerals Divide by 5

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