Websites/Remote Learning
These websites can help your child practise and extend their learning at home. Most are free. Times Tables Rock Stars uses a school login – if your child doesn’t know theirs, please ask their class teacher.
Reading and writing
Oxford Owl
Over 100 free e-books for ages 3–11, including phonics books for early readers. Free parent account.
Words for Life
Reading, talk and writing activities for families, by age, from the National Literacy Trust. Free.
Maths
Times Tables Rock Stars
Fast-paced times tables practice – great preparation for the Year 4 multiplication check. School login.
Hit the Button
Quick-fire games for number bonds, doubles, halves and times tables. Works well on phones and tablets. Free.
Across the curriculum
Scratch
Create games, stories and animations with block coding. Younger children can try the ScratchJr app. Free.
Explore and discover
Natural History Museum
Articles, videos and quizzes about dinosaurs, animals, rocks and our planet. Free.
From our school and Trust
Early Years Sing-Along
Join in with favourite songs and rhymes – perfect for Nursery and Reception children. Free.
TTLT YouTube Channel
Videos from across the Tapscott Learning Trust, including PE, music and learning activities. Free.
Science: rocks and fossils in 3D
The Lapworth Museum of Geology and others share free 3D models of real rocks and fossils on Sketchfab – perfect for our Year 3 rocks unit.
Igneous and metamorphic rocks
Rocks formed by heat and pressure. Free.
Pumice
Obsidian
Metamorphic rock (sample A)
Metamorphic rock (sample C)
Sedimentary rocks
Rocks built up in layers over millions of years. Free.
Fossils
Real fossils you can spin and zoom in on. Free.
Carboniferous fossils (collection)
Fossilised plant (Ctenozamites)
Megalodon shark tooth
