The Bolton College Family Learning Home Survival Guide
Contact the Family Learning Team on; familylearning@boltoncc.ac.uk
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FAQs; The following are some of the questions that we have been asked by parents.
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Bolton College Family Learning maths and English creative ideas
Baking Cupcakes Ingredients (about 12 cupcakes). 6 oz of self-raising flour 6 oz margarine 6 oz sugar 3 eggs. Method:
wl Easy way: add everything in a bo and whisk thoroughly. You can also try the creaming d method: cream the margarine an sugar with a wooden spoon then x add the rest of the ingredients. Mi together with the spoon. Put in the cup cases and bake for 4. 20 mins at 180/160 or gas mark
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Bolton College Family Learning maths and English creative ideas Maths to try while baking
Early Years and KS1 maths:
• Division: Sharing mixture out.
• Observation: What do they notice about the recipe? (equal proportions of everything but half the number of eggs).
• Proportion to adjust the recipe.
• Ratio: 30 cupcakes are shared out between Alex and mum in the ratio of 1:5, how many does Alex eat?
• Counting: measuring ingredients.
• Money: What did the ingredients cost? KS2 maths:
• Conversion: instead of oz, use grams. 1 oz = 28.35 grams.
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• Substitution: Use plain flour instead and add baking powder (2 tsps. for every 150g/6oz).
• Online shopping: Look at prices and compare them. For example, work out offers: ice pops 2 packs of 10 for £1 or 15 for 80p. Which is the best value?
Bolton College Family Learning maths and English creative ideas English ideas for baking.
Phonics and writing:
• What are the initial sounds? For example, ‘f’ for flour. • What are the final sounds? For example ‘r’ in flour. Talk about these sounds in the other ingredients.
• Can they write the sounds? Tip: they can write using their fingers in the flour: spread thinly on a kitchen worktop or small tray. • What other sounds or words can they write? • Draw a picture of the words. Colour or paint the pictures. Make a book or take photos. • Write words and draw pictures outdoors with chalk. • Make writing fun!
Early Years and KS1:
Look at the ingredients (in boxes, packets) from the recipe. • Can they name any? • Where do they come from?
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• Discuss food sources. For example, eggs from a hen, packed in boxes then delivered to
a shop or supermarket.
Reading:
• Look at the packets/recipes/boxes.
• Can the children recognise any logos? For example, ASDA. • Can they read any words?
• Can they recognise any letters?
KS2:
• Write the recipe using extra ingredients they like. For example, cherries in the cupcakes. How can they decorate the cupcakes once they have cooked and cooled?
• Write how to decorate them. Tip: write a list using bullet points. Start with what you need to do first, then second etc. • Look through recipe books. Choose something they can make with an adult or older sibling. Can they make it on their own later? Write about what happened. What they enjoyed/what worked well/what they would like to do next time. Create a recipe book of favourite recipes.
• Write shopping lists for ingredients required in recipes. Check with the recipe quantities and how many they will need to buy. For example, one box of eggs or two boxes for a two egg omelette?
Family Learning
ideas and activities during Lockdown
The following pages are separated into diff erent primary year groups, from Nursery and Reception, up to Year 6. Some of the websites detailed can be acc essed for ALL Primary classes - when you follow the link to the website and log on, simply choose the appropriate year group for you r child. Some of the listed sites are now FREE - pre viously there would have been a charge. Please take advantage of these sites; they are used in schools and highly-recommended by school staff.
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e Twinkl is a great website and on ey recommended by school staff. Th are offering FREE subscription for parents during this time. Go to www.twinkl.co.uk/offer and use the code UKTWINKLHELPS
rces Twinkl has a wide variety of resou on for ALL Primary classes. In additi they have NEW Home Learning Hubs. These change daily during the lockdown and are suitable for 3-16 year olds. They can be easily accessed on the website.
Nursery and Reception
Websites to help your child
at home
Phonicsplay is a wonderful website used in schools to support phonics teaching. Includes reading simple words and spelling. Sign up for FREE for FULL access to the website’s games.
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Lovely online games to support your child’s skills. hs Covers a range of topics, including plenty of mat and literacy games.
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More maths and literacy games.
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Create an account for FREE and play maths games with your child online. Search ‘kindergarten’ in the search box and select a topic.
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Year 1 1
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Use the internet or a non-fiction book to find out about your favourite animal or a different place that you know about. Look at a map and talk about different countries/ places.
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Ask a grown up to tell you what life was like in the past, when they were small.
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Count household objects and write the number dow n, e.g. pegs, buttons, tins. Count in tens 10, 20, 30, 40, 50… Count in twos 2, 4, 6, 8, 10… Count in fives 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30…
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Talk about the time on the clock. The hour, half-past the hour. Play ‘shop’ with real coins. Talk about what each coin is worth. Add and subtract with single-digit numbers.
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Practise reading and spelling year one ‘Common
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Help prepare a meal eg. Taking items from cupboard s, setting the table.
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Look at millilitres and litres on bottles and cartons. Pour liquid into a measuring jug. Have fun at bathtime talking abou t full, empty, half-empty. Look at grams and kilograms on packets in your cupboards; talk about light and heavy. Use bathroom scales to find out how many kilograms you weigh. Do some exercises in the garden. Go on a ‘mini-bea st’ hunt, look for spiders, worms, slugs, woodlice etc. in your gard en. Play ‘I spy’. Look around the house at what objects are made of; talk about wood, metal, plastic.
Help with the laundry – folding and sorting cloth es, putting socks into pairs etc.
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Help write a shopping list. Write a letter or a post card to a member of your family or a friend.
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Read a story book every day and draw a picture.
Year 2
website links for learning in every subject
Interactive activities, great for learning times tables. Click Here
FREE maths worksheets for ALL ages. Click Here
FREE maths games and resources for ALL ages. Click Here
Literacy resources and activities. Click Here
Offers a picture a day stimulus with comprehension questions, story starter, sentence challenge, improve sentences and perfect picture (ideas for pictures to draw). For ALL ages.
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Variety of activity, colouring sheets and creative ideas. For ALL ages.
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Year 3
website links for learning in every subject
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Offers a picture a day stimulus with comprehension questions, story starter, sentence challenge, improve sentences and perfect picture (ideas for pictures to draw). For ALL ages. CLICK HERE
Includes handy bite-size videos. CLICK HERE
Have prepared home learning packs for EYFS, KS1 & KS2.
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Year 4 Practise your times tables. CLICK HERE
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Complete comprehension activities for ALL ages.
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Pictures to inspire writing.
Home learning packs with a variety of curricular areas.
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• Play a variety of games and write sets of instructions. • Bake a cake and write out the recipe. • Tidy your room and make your bed every day. • Create your own mythical creature and write a Greek myth. • Create a pattern in the style of Greek art. • Keep a diary. • Make a card, write a letter and then post it to a care home.
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Year 4 Online quizzes. Maths games available on:
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Write a news report and keep up to date with what is happening in the world.
Books to read. CLICK HERE
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Story books brought to life. CLICK HERE
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Year 4
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Write a list of animals, food, places to visit, names using each letter of the alphabet.
• Write a story using the Greek alphabet. • Create your own mythical creature and write a Greek myth. • Find as many things as you can that will fit inside a match box. • Make puppets and put on a puppet show. • Make a musical instrument and create a piece of music – find your own instruments from around the home to make a band e.g. pots and pans (ask mum first!). • Play board games. Make your own board games, write the instructions and play it with your family. • Make a pasta necklace and bracelet. Make it with younger brothers or sisters. • Design and make a pizza. Ask older brothers and sisters to help. • Make a den: indoors or outdoors in your yard or garden.
Very simple science experiments to complete at home with household items: CLICK HERE
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Years 5&6 Grammar Revision
English:
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Pictures to inspire writing.
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Offers a picture a day stimulus with comprehension questions.
Read an e-book. CLICK HERE
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Maths
Aimed at higher level maths questioning.
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Try Corbett’s 5-a-day questioning.
Years 5&6 General Links:
Learn a new language.
Make learning fun with these interactive websites: CLICK HERE CLICK HERE
Learn Sign Language.
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Play dress-up in mum and dad’s clothes – do a photoshoot.
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Have a living room disco – play freeze, musical chairs, have a dance off.
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Go through old photos and videos, and old crafts and paintings.
Go through recipe books together and have a bake off challenge. Gardening – pull weeds, trim bushes, and tidy up. Wash up, hoover and dust. Help out at home. Use Lego characters or other small toys to make a stop motion movie. Download the app Stop Motion to your phone or ipad. Create a daily journal using drawings, photographs and writing about daily activities.
Family Learning advice for all Primary School children in lockdown
Top 10 Tips: 1
Have a daily routine.
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Go through old photos and videos, and old crafts and paintings
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Complete at least one literacy activity every day.
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Complete at least one maths activity every day.
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Do some exercise: PE activities, indoors or outdoors.
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Wash up, hoover and dust. Help out at home.
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Use Lego characters or other small toys to make a stop motion movie. Download the app Stop Motion to your phone or ipad.
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Learn something new each day. What did you enjoy? Record it in a journal: write, draw pictures or take a photograph.
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Read every day: magazines, books, your reading books, TV guides, on an ipad, an e-book, online.
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Complete as many activities as you can outdoors. Don’t forget sun cream if it’s sunny!
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Relax every day completing an activity you enjoy and makes you happy. Have fun!
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We all have to stay in our homes so go on a virtual trip to Chester Zoo, the Natural History Museum in London and even a trip to Buckingham Palace. Look out for the Queen! Where else can you go on a virtual trip in the UK or in other countries of the world?
Links to further information and guidance Mind
The Department of Education
websites have been identified by some of the country’s leading educational experts and offer a wide range of support and resources for pupils of all ages.
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provides information about how physical activity can help your mental health, and tips for choosing an activity that works for you, and how to overcome anything that might stop you from becoming more active.
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Hungry Little Minds has simple, fun activities for kids, from newborn to five.
Greater Sport have pulled together a number of different resources that are freely available online to help you and your children keep moving.
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Mind Click Here
Times Tables Songs 1-12 for Kids | 23 Minute Compilation from Silly School Songs!
explores the relationship between what you eat and how you feel, including tips on how to incorporate healthy eating into your life.
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