Favourite Websites and Home Learning

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Login to Purple Mash, our virtual learning environment, for coding, game-making, homeworks and lots of creative activities to support your learning.

When you have logged in, you can find the work that has been set for you by clicking on the red tick.  This is your 2Dos list. Find a task, then click on Start. 

To save, click on the purple square with three white lines and click Save. You can also save by clicking on the red square with the white arrow, then Save and Exit. 

When you have finished go to 2Dos and click Hand In.

Maths lessons, challenges and games for homework and classwork. Try using your Purple Mash login and password or see Mr Cannell for help. School id 41975.

Login to your Times Table Rock Stars account.  Have you picked your avatar and rock star name?  

  To access your Big Cat ebooks, click on the image above.

Enter the username and password provided by school to access your library. 

Once logged in, you will land on the library. Here you will see any books that have been assigned by your teacher. You can access a resource sheet for each book by clicking the three dots, then “Resources”. 

 To open one of the books, select either the cover or the “Read” button. 

Sign into Spelling Shed to practise and learn your weekly spellings.

Start programming with Scratch.  Click on Create for the programming window where you can develop your own games, stories and animations.  Take a look at other people's projects for ideas.  There are lots of places to find help.

These are the White Rose Maths lesson videos. 

The Oak Academy have several weeks of lessons that you may wish to access.  When you choose a lesson, there are a number of dots which take you through a sequence of: an introductory  quiz; a video with a teacher; a worksheet (some lessons) and a final quiz. 

Welcome to the Virtual School Library, brought you by Oak National Academy in partnership with the National Literacy Trust.

Every week a popular children's author or illustrator will provide you with free books, exclusive videos and their top three recommended reads.

Having access to a school library is really important for children. School libraries nurture a love of reading that can enrich children’s literacy skills, academic achievements and mental wellbeing. Our Virtual School Library will complement existing school libraries and will ensure that children have access to the magical world of stories all year round, whether they are learning at school or at home.

We’ve worked with brilliant publishers and inspiring authors and illustrators to ensure that the books and activities in our Virtual School Library will support children’s wellbeing through reading.

Sign up for a free account and read extracts from recommended books before buying them. Try reading something by an author you haven't read before! 

The CAFOD primary schools page has lots of resources  for home learning, teaching activities and fun games, films and prayers for children.

 You can use the excellent online Collins English Dictionary and Thesaurus to find out the meanings of words, how to pronounce them and similar words. 

If you set up an account with Oxford Owl, you will have access to over 100 free, tablet-friendly ebooks  that are banded in the way we do in school. There are also a wide range of other activities for Maths and English.

Learner guides, class clips and games to help with understanding, practice, homework and revision of all subjects.

NRICH problems are here for you to get your teeth into.

    - to provide you with engaging mathematical activities.

    - to provoke you into mathematical thinking.

    - to explore, question, notice and discuss.

Immerse yourself in the mathematics...

Yoga, mindfulness and relaxation through adventures recommended by several of our teachers.

St Edmund's Music from Crosby have set up a website where you can learn about: pulse and rhythm; duration and tempo; melody and pitch; harmony; texture; dynamics; emotions; film music; world music;

classical music and unusual intruments.

Practise your times tables on the Complete Maths website.

CodeBug is a cute, programmable and wearable device designed to introduce simple programming and electronic concepts to anyone, at any age. CodeBug can display graphics and text, has touch sensitive inputs and you can power it with a watch battery. It is easy to program CodeBug using the online interface, which features colourful drag and drop blocks, and an in-browser emulator. 

Lots of reasoning practice for Maths SATs revision. Use your Purple Mash login.

Start programming the BBC Micro:bit

Online lessons with Natasha Lamb and Kelly-Ann

 Try out some more Hour of Code  activities. For example - Dance Party, Minecraft, Star Wars, Angry Birds, Google logo, Frozen.... 

These are practical Science, Engineering and Computing live lessons to have lots of fun with.  There are plenty to look back on too in the 'Past Doses' section, including bridge building, the World's best aeroplane and lava lamps.

These are guided lessons helping you to work through great Scratch projects.

This website has science experiments, fact files, quizzes and games about microbes.

5-a-day, videos, worksheets, practice papers for Y6 and Y5.

Topic tasks, video guides, arithmetic practice, times table challenges, home learning tasks for KS2.

Learn to touch type on a keyboard with BBC Bitesize Dance Mat Typing. You will need a keyboard with a space bar and enter key. 

The Literacy Shed has a number of activity packs related to short films with comprehension, writing, art, maths, history, geography and more.

Collins Learning at Home website has free ebooks, songs, maths and languages activities. You may need a login and password for their Class Connect portal 

Username: parents@harpercollins.co.uk

Password: Parent20!  

FInd out about lots of books and read reviews. You can even win free copies of new books so you can write a review yourself. 

Choose a spelling rule then choose to either practise the spelling or take a test with those words. All words are read aloud (make sure your sound is turned up) and provided within a sentence for context. 

Listen to History storytime for children with 7 year old Sophie, 5 year old Ellie and their Daddy. Exciting stories of knights in shining armour and their battles. Henry VIII, the Tudors, Romans, World War 2, George Washington, Columbus and more. Even amazing stories of animals in history like elephants, dogs, cats and pigeons. Stirring stories of love and betrayal. Strong women and how they changed history. Real life narrative history as it should be told. Valued by teachers, enjoyed by parents, loved by kids. Helps support the National Curriculum with Key Stage 1 (KS1) and Key Stage 2 (KS2).  

Learn the principles of programming with Blockly using Rapid Router to move the delivery van. 

A fantastic interactive maths dictionary and wall charts to download. 

Practise your times tables. Every 10 correct answers provides one day's water for one person in the developing world! 

WordArt.com is an online word cloud art creator that enables you to create amazing and unique word cloud art with ease.

Explore the Earth and Space with NASA.

Numbots focuses on key skills of number bonds, addition and subtraction through a number of challenge levels. 

Children should aim to play in Story Mode for three minutes four to five times a week, to get the best out of NumBots. Little and often is key (spaced practice is more effective than blocked practice). 

Our 2021-22 league starts on Saturday 16th October.  Sign up or login to set up your team.  Join our league xrg89i. Click on the image to check your team.