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Everyone is adapting to an unusual situation and some parents are feeling the pressure to replicate school behaviour systems. When supporting your child’s behaviour, and their social and emotional needs, there are a few key principles that should help:
With all this fabulous sunshine and dry weather, let’s take the learning outdoors! Below you will find some suggested outdoor activities and websites where you will find lots of ideas, video clips and tips about how to get the most out of our gardens and green spaces.
https://www.edenproject.com/learn/for-everyone
outdoorclassroomday.org.uk
I have attached some links to resources which you may find useful for supporting your children with learning at home. A couple of the links are general support about routines and structure, while others focus on how you can support your child’s literacy learning.
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There are additional resources which you may find useful and these can be found at the education endowment fund website: https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/public/files/videos/EEF_Supporting_daily_routines_during_school_closures.mp4
The Royal Bank of Scotland have created free, fun, interactive learning activities and games around the topic of money for age 5-18yrs. There are live interactive money lessons and activitites which focus on saving/budgeting, cost and understanding payment. Use the link below to access all activities.
https://rbs.mymoneysense.com/parents/
With all this fantastic use of online materials and resources, it’s important now more than ever that we discuss online safety with our children. Miss Farooq has been gathering some ideas of how we can do this and we will post up activities over the coming weeks for you to do with your children. I have attached an activity for P1-3 and P4-7 to get started.
Mrs Burns and I have been missing our time with our vertical group and have created a STEM challenge that you can take part in at home. If you are not part of our vertical group and fancy joining in, please just go ahead. The more the merrier!
Flying Object Supporting Links
What Makes Paper Aeroplanes Fly?
We´d love to hear how successful your invention is or even see a picture of it. Email us at: wlfallahill-ps@westlothian.org.uk
We´ll include the pictures on our STEM sway so you can all see each other’s inventions.
Good luck inventors!