With the new school term starting today we have rounded up some really useful resources to lend a hand. Let’s face it, the majority of us are not trained home-schoolers and are muddling through the best we can. But if we can just get the kids to do a little bit of something each day then that’s a win in our eyes! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
30 Day Free Trial to Reading Eggs & Math Seeds<\/a><\/strong> Enthuse Education<\/a><\/strong>, save 83% on LittleBird Developing Experts<\/a><\/strong> Online Science Lessons, save 50% on LittleBird Scholastic Free Resource Bank<\/a><\/strong> Khan Academy<\/a><\/strong> BBC Learning<\/a><\/strong> (Archived website) National Geographic Kids<\/a><\/strong> The Kids Should See This<\/a><\/strong> Crash Course Kids<\/a><\/strong> Cbeebies Radio<\/a><\/strong> Blue Peter Badges<\/a><\/strong> Seneca<\/a><\/strong> DK Find Out<\/a><\/strong> Red Ted Art<\/a><\/strong> Geography Games<\/a><\/strong> Scratch<\/a><\/strong> Blockly<\/a><\/strong> Duolingo<\/a><\/strong> Paw Print Badges<\/a><\/strong> Crest Awards<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Big History Project<\/a><\/strong> Tinkercad<\/a><\/strong> iDEA Awards<\/a><\/strong> The Imagination Tree<\/a><\/strong> Oxford Owl for Home<\/a><\/strong> The Artful Parent<\/a><\/strong> Openlearn<\/a><\/strong> Futurelearn<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Have you got any amazing home learning resources that you use with the kids? We would love to hear all of your ideas. Tag us on Facebook @LittleBird and Instagram @littlebirddeals for a chance to be featured on our socials!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the new school term starting today we have rounded up some really useful resources to lend a hand. Let’s face it, the majority of us are not trained home-schoolers and are muddling through the best we can. But if we can just get the kids to do a little bit of something each day … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7341"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7578,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7341\/revisions\/7578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Age: 2-13 Years<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Personalised Maths & English Tuition for 4 weeks.
Age: 5-11 Years<\/p>\n\n\n\n
12 Months of Hands-On Lessons
Age: 4 – 14 Years<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Scholastic Resource Bank have put together a range of FREE home learning packs for Early Years, KS1, Lower KS2 and Upper KS2 children to help parents and teachers prepare for all eventualities<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Great for Maths & Computing
Note this uses the U.S. grade system but it\u2019s mostly common material.
Age: 4 – 18 Years<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This site is no longer updated but there\u2019s so much still available, from language learning to BBC Bitesize for revision. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Activities and quizzes
Age: 6+ Years<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Smart videos for curious minds<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fantastic YouTube Channel on fascinating subjects.
Every Tuesday & Thursday for new subjects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fun radio stories, poems, songs and listening activities for babies, toddlers and young children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Get the kids earning their Blue Peter Badge, there are eight to collect! Simply send in letters, stories, makes, pictures, poems, good ideas for the programme!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tons of free revision content.
Paid access to higher level material.
Ages: 7+ Years<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Search, learn and explore a range of subjects!
Age: 4+<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Easy arts and crafts for little ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Challenging and entertaining quiz games to improve your geographical knowledge!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Program your own interactive stories, games, and animations \u2014 and share your creations with others in the online community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Blockly Games is a series of educational games that teach programming. Great for kids who have not had prior experience with computer programming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Learn languages for free. Web or app.
Age: All Ages<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Free challenge packs and other downloads. Many activities can be completed indoors. Badges cost but are optional.
Age: All Ages<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Science awards you can complete from home.
Age: 5-18 Years<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Big History Project is a free, online social studies course that helps us better understand people, civilisations, and how we are connected to everything around us.
Age: 11+ Years . <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tinkercad is a free, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding. It’s used by teachers, kids, hobbyists, and designers to imagine, design, and make anything!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Digital enterprise award scheme you can complete online.
Age: All Ages<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Creative art and craft activities for the very youngest.
Age: 2+ Years<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Great range of free resources in Reading, Maths and English
Age: 3-11 Years<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Good, free art activities on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Free taster courses aimed at those considering Open University but everyone can access it. Adult level, but some e.g. nature and environment courses could well be of interest to young people<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Free to access 100s of courses, only pay to upgrade if you need a certificate in your name (own account from age 14+ but younger learners can use a parent account).<\/p>\n\n\n\n