COVID-19 Home Learning
COVID-19 Home Learning
Below are details covering Home Learning.
Below are details covering Home Learning.
We have prepared an extensive list below of online learning facilities to advise home learning, these include....
Government Information
Here are several links to some of the recent information published by the government:
Coronavirus (COVID-19) what you need to do: Click HereLots of great information can be found on the "What you need to do" link above.There are additional links below.
Number of cases and risk in the UK: Click HereCoronavirus Action Plan: Click HereGuidance for Educational Settings: Click HereTravel Advice: Click Here
Letters to you
Here are some letters and Q&A's sent through for you the parents. Click below to download the PDF's.
SEND Families Covid 19 Click Here
Minister Ford's open letter to the SEND sector Click Here
Q & A Click Here
Communication
Here at St Thomas' we have opted to make communication between Parents/Carers and School as easy as it can be.
To keep the emails GDPR compliant we are sending the emails to individual parents/carers without the access of seeing what others are doing in that class. The emails will allow teachers to share work, as well as receive work from parents/carers. The relevant information should have been already passed out to each pupil. However, if the information is no longer available then you can find it below.
You can get in contact with the class email. Each class email follows the same naming template:
class number followed by @leighsaintthomas.wigan.sch.uk.
An example of this would be: Class10@leighsaintthomas.wigan.sch.uk.
Additionally you can communicate with your teachers through class dojo. If you require a link to your teachers class dojo, contact them through the class email to allow them to set you up a link.
Curriculum Sites
Our subscribed sites:
Pupils should've received their individual log on details for each of the sites we pay for here at St Thomas'. Below are links to all of the websites that pupils can use.
- TT Rocks Stars : https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student- Acc Reader: https://ukhosted1.renlearn.co.uk/1892804/- MyMaths: https://login.mymaths.co.uk/- Education City : https://ec1.educationcity.com/
If a pupils details are lost, feel free to contact teachers through the provided communication methods. They have log in details on hand.
Subscription Sites offering free access
There are several sites that normally require a paid licence that are now offering free resources.
- Twinkl : Setting this up is really easy to do - go to www.twinkl.co.uk/offer and enter the code UKTWINKLHELPS- Emile Education : Emile makes use of the latest games-based learning approaches and engages students so that they answer
thousands of questions. https://www.emile-education.com/schools-corona-virus/
- White Rose : The first lot of resources will be released week beginning 16th March 2020
Free Educational Sites
Here is a list of websites offering free educational help:
Things to keep them occupied
Keeping children from being bored is a difficult task to master. One of the best ways of occupying them is to have them complete physical activities
Below are some resources to allow you to complete some physical activities within your home, as well as information on mental health at home:
There are other resources online with lesson plans to give you ideas on what to do at home.
Here are some great sites for physical education resources:
These websites should give you access to lots of different lesson plans and other unique activities to carry out at home.
Additionally something we should all focus on in this trying time is mental health.
Physical activity is one of the best ways to clear a stressed mind. However, there are other resources available to do with mindfulness and ways to cope with stress.
Below is a link to our Mental Health Page that covers information to do with Breathing Techniques, Positive affirmations and a Well being toolbox. As well as links to our Mental Health YouTube Channel where we will be posting videos to help with home learning.
Mindfulness YoutTube Channel
Online E-Saftey
Please be extra vigilant when children are using devices and online content at home, please see this website (https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/) for more guidance.
Additionally we have more safeguarding details for pupils at home and what we can do to keep children safe online on our Safeguarding page. Click the link below to go the the page.
Contact:
If you have any school requests or general enquiries please email us at the St Thomas enquiries email.
There will be someone in the office that you can contact between 8:00am - 4:00pm.
01942 672730
We may be remote but we will always operate most effectively as a team and that isn't going to change. Thank you so much for your support during this time. Best of luck.
