Year 4

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Welcome to Year 4

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Here you will find resources and lessons, as well as some links to useful websites and virtual museums that you may wish to view at home with your children.

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Online Safety

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With children potentially working in a completely different environment at home, below are some resources for online safety that you and your child can view together.

NSPCC Learning - Download our free Share Aware lesson plans and classroom guidance to help teach your class to stay safe online.

Think U Know - Play Like Share: animated series and resources.

Think U Know - Band Runner game and website.

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Reading

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World Book Reader - Do you love free books? Worldreader gives you access to an enormous digital library with thousands of free carefully curated ebooks from around the world.

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Writing

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Spelling Frame - Students can choose to practise a set of words, take a test, or play a game with those words

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Maths

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White Rose Maths - Help your child with their studies with home learning.

Times Tables Rock Stars - Times Tables Rock Stars is a carefully sequenced programme of daily times tables practice aimed at schools.

Maths Frame - The most popular free maths games

Gareth Metcalfe Primary Maths - Gareth Metcalfe is going to be providing math video lessons everyday for years 3/4 aired at 9:15am and year 5/6 aired at 10:00am.

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Other

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123 Home School 4 Me - If you need access to free worksheets and activities, here's another good place to start. Our friends in the USA have made a really valuable platform here. You'll need to convert the year groups though! As a rough guide: Reception = Pre-Kindergarten, Year 1 = Kindergarten, Year 2 = 1st Grade

Active Learn Primary - Teachers are ensuring that children’s reading levels are up to date and this site has many great resources. Children can read a book to you or they can enjoy hearing a book read to them.

BBC Bitesize - Mapping the world

Blockly - Educational games that teach programming

Blue Peter Badge Challenges - Different challenges for children to work through. 8 badges in total to try to gain!

Count on - Counting games

Century - CENTURY is the tried and tested intelligent intervention tool that combines learning science, AI and neuroscience.

DK Find Out - Lots of games and quizzes.

Education Quizzes - Select the KS1 option from the home page and there are lots of activities here which will help your child recall previous learning.

First News - Provides schools with a unique platform for news-based learning. Free subscription and resources during closures.

ICT Games - Here you'll find free educational games aimed at children between 5 and 8 years old

Kahoot - Apps and games for family fun or home study

Kids - Classroom Secrets - Classroom Secrets Kids is offering FREE access to everyone until the end of April 2020. The platform is aimed at primary aged children and covers subjects such as maths, reading, grammar and spelling. The platform is really child-friendly so that they're able to access it on their own. There's load of games and interactive activities from phonics to SATs

Off School Flyer - full of ideas for home learning and fun activities. Head to the Activity Zone for 100s of films, created by teachers, across loads of great topics and themes!

National Geographic Kids - National Geographic is a great platform for learning and it’s totally free. There’s online games, resources and competitions too.

Primary Homework Help - Hundreds of pages of easy to read information and facts on many homework topics

Prodigy Maths Games - Free online maths

Shaun's Game Academy - Learn how to make online games here!

Seneca - Excellent to set tasks for GCSE and A Level

Scratch - Computer programming

Storytelling with Leicester Libraries - Anansi and the Tiger - told by Hema Acharya

Storytelling with Leicester Libraries - Nail Soup (retold) a story for older children told by Matthew Vaughan

Storytelling with Leicester Libraries - The Clay Boy: A story for older Children told by Paul Gobey

The kids should see this - Child friendly science videos that does not underestimate their ability

TinkerCad - Free app for 3D Design, electronics coding

Top marks - Topmarks gives children the opportunity to learn online, through safe, fun and engaging games and activities

Twinkl - Instant access to inspirational lesson plans, schemes of work, assessment, interactive activities, resource packs, PowerPoints, teaching ideas at Twinkl!

Access code: PARENTSTWINKLHELPS

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Virtual Museums

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Science Museum - Explore our collection, complete brain-teasing puzzles or learn about science with our range of science games and apps

London Zoo - here

British Museum - Free tours and activities

Google Art Project - Some wonderful pieces from multiple locations across the world

Guggenheim - A chance to view some of the collection online

Museum of London - Online games and some activities to do at home

NASA Langley - Langley Research Center - Virtual Tour

National Gallery of Art - A chance to view some of the collection online

Natural History Museum - On this page you'll find lesson plans and activities for classroom learning, as well as resources to support self-led trails around the Museum

The Dali Museums - A chance to view some of the collection online

The Vatican Museums - A chance to view some of the collection online