Joanna Rossiter

The best online resources to use for home school

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All you carefree millennials sans famille – spare a thought for parents currently in lockdown. While twenty-somethings may be secretly rubbing their hands with glee at the chance to catch up on their books bucket list or work their way through Netflix over the next three months, there is no such joy for parents. The announcement that schools were due to close was met with a mild look of panic by every parent I know – we’ve all become teachers overnight, except without the PGCE or the crowd control skills, all whilst holding down the day job. Wish us luck.

Fortunately, in the age of the internet, plenty of help is at hand online. In fact, the volume of resources out there can be overwhelming and it’s difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff and work out what is going to prove most beneficial for your children. We’ve mined the expertise of teachers to bring you the best educational resources out there, broken down by age.

Early years

Twinkl

In the current circumstances, Twinkl feels like a gift sent from above. Used by primary schools across the country, it provides everything from interactive maths games to helpful worksheets to build confidence in phonics and grammar. The pizza slice game is a firm favourite with my six year old and, by dividing its activities into topics, the site makes it very easy for parents to find resources that slot into the plans being provided to many pupils by class teachers. Twinkl have a week of emergency lockdown teaching resources available to download and are making all of their 630,000 learning resources free to parents, carers and teachers during lockdown.

You can get access to all of our resources by visiting https://www.twinkl.co.uk/offer and entering the code CVDTWINKLHELPS alongside an email and password! So far, the offer has been used over 732,000 times all around the world, which is beyond amazing.


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