ENGLISH, MATHS & SCIENCE
ENGLISH
Reading for Pleasure - Summer 2021
We really hope that students read widely over the summer holidays. Here are some helpful guides:
CLICK for Summer Reading Guide for Year 6
CLICK for Summer Reading Guide for KS3 & KS4 with book recommendations.
CLICK for Parent Support Guide which explains how you can help develop your child's reading.
YEAR 7: Creating characters work sheet
KS3, KS4 & KS5
stories.audible.com - Free audio books for children/teenagers during school closure
www.talkingaboutshakespeare.org - Talking About Shakespeare where actors and academics, playwrights and directors, poets and novelists give insight into Shakespeare’s contemporary resonance.
poetrysociety.org.uk - Poetry Society - Learning From Home resources
KS3
www.culturewhisper.com - Literacy podcasts for kids
KS3 & KS4
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/ A wide selection of poetry covering different topics.
https://www.pobble365.com/ A new image is published each day as a basis for creative writing. Story starters, questions and drawing ideas are provided. Registration not required.
lte blog - Let's Think Remote learning platform - click on one of the tabs at the top of the page and chose to explore poetry, film or art. You work through the PowerPoint and then share your thoughts in the comments’ section at the bottom of the page.
www.scottishbooktrust.com - Authors Live On Demand
KS5
www.youtube.com/user/HayLevels/playlists - Hay Levels is a series of over 200 films in which Hay Festival experts from a range of disciplines offer bite-sized inspiration for A-Level students.
SCIENCE
KS3, KS4 & KS5
Click picture for Stem hub
The Stem Hub helps inspire the next generation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians. Activities are great for families to do at home and very interactive.
Witness the Big Bang, the moment a tiny speck packed with energy suddenly expanded giving birth to space and time. Narrated by Tilda Swinton, see stars collapse and expand, and our solar system form.
Download the Big Bang AR app:
App store: https://goo.gl/L8j6LS
Play Store: https://goo.gl/yaYSqX
A journey of invention and discovery with CERN, NASA, and more than 100 museums around the world. Discover more on https://g.co/onceuponatry
If you’re looking for space related learning activities to try out at home during lockdown, have a look at some of these ideas from The UK space education office, ESERO-UK:
CLICK: Space related educational resources for home schooling
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0006p5f/8-days-to-the-moon-and-back
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01rrxdh/africa-the-greatest-show-on-earth
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0007f1h/animal-babies-first-year-on-earth-series-1-episode-3
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0007f78/animals-at-play-series-1-2-playing-together
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0005ptr/big-animal-surgery-series-1-3-elephant
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09l2fgr/blue-planet-ii-oceans-of-wonder
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000gzmg/blue-planet-revisited-series-1-1-a-sharks-tale
www.bbc.co.uk - Can Science make me perfect?
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p06mvrwn/dynasties-series-1-5-tiger
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p03pjd66/highlands-scotlands-wild-heart-1-spring-season-of-extremes
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074t5y/planet-earth-11-ocean-deep
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0861m8b/planet-earth-ii-6-cities
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p06qj389/the-planets-series-1-5-into-the-darkness-ice-worlds
www.bbc.co.uk - The real T-Rex
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000ctbn/seven-worlds-one-planet-continents-of-wonder
www.bbc.co.uk - The Spy in the Snow
KS3
KS3 & KS4
KS4
www.freesciencelessons.co.uk - Free science lessons (the one with the blue screen) is doing a daily science lesson with accompanying worksheet. There is a live discussion of the answers at 2pm on Twitter.
KS5
BIOLOGY
KS3, KS4 & KS5
KS4 & KS5
KS5
youtube.com - Useful lessons for A-level Biology
www.youtube.com - napRevise OCR A-level Biology Playlist
www.futurelearn.com/courses/ecology-and-wildlife-conservation
PHYSICS
KS4 & KS5
www.gcsephysicsonline.com - Live streaming Science lessons every day at 10am - useful to keep your science skills up to date. This will be especially useful if you want to study A-Level science.
KS5
www.alevelphysicsonline.com - If you want to challenge yourself then you could join some A-Level lessons at 12pm and get an idea of what A-Level science is like.
