Home activities for learning, mental health and wellbeing.

Learning happens in so many different ways for children. 

Other than the printed learning packs and/ or online learning your children are doing, there are also other ways they can practise their skills and develop. These will also help their wellbeing and mental health.

Some activities to try-

• Den building
• Shoe box houses
• Baking BBC- Top 10 easy bakes for kids
• Build a bird house
• Grow something Picklebums- Veggies to grow with kids
• Make a time capsule
• Sock ball challenges-  How many keepy uppies?  Basketball contests (using a bin or laundry basket). Bouncing them off walls. Make up your own game.



• Collect at home maths aids, for your lessons- Smarties, Lego bricks, pasta shapes, pennies, buttons or paperclips
• Scavenger hunts out and about or at home. Can include looking for letters in the alphabet/ colours in rainbow/ leaves all sorts of things really. 
• Play some card games. They can practise a variety of skills, such as: patience, strategy, focus, recognising patterns with numbers and their reflexes. KIDSPOT 12-classic-card-games-to-teach-the-kids

• The RSPB Wild Challenge

• How many outdoor learning activities can you do by February half term?   Loveoutdoorlearning.com

• Help your young children develop their communication skills.

There are lots of ideas, tips and advice at - www.bbc.co.uk/tiny-happy-people

Twinkl support for BBC education

"To support the BBC content beginning on Monday 11th January, Twinkl will be providing aligned resources to use each day. We’ll be sharing these in our Home Learning Hub, in daily blogs and schedules, and letting you know through our social media channels. Best of all, every resource you’ll need to go alongside the BBC lessons will be FREE to access and share."

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/blog

Greenwich School Sports Virtual League

Greenwich School Sports Virtual League - Weekly home challenges for children, staff and parents

The Greenwich School Sports Virtual League has now enabled staff, children and parents to register their participation in virtual competitions for the 2020/21 virtual league. 

Different challenges will be set each week and you will be able to gain points for the school by completing a survey each time you complete one of the competitions. 

Visit the competitions (all schools area)  https://www.greenwichssp.co.uk/page/?title=Competitions+%28all+schools%29&pid=9 to see the challenges for the week.

Week 1 includes:

• ​1 minute burpees 
• ​Netball throw & catch 
  
• Kick ups
  

Once you have finished any of the competitions for week 1, complete the virtual competition entry survey: https://www.greenwichssp.co.uk/form/?pid=9&form=223 (1 survey completion, per competition completed).  For every survey completed we earn points and potentially prizes for our school. 

You could also visit the 'Stay Healthy at Home' area of the website for some recommended PE and well being resources: https://www.greenwichssp.co.uk/stayhealthy

Have fun whilst keeping active.

BBC education support

Starting on Monday 11 January, each week day on CBBC will see a three-hour block of primary school programming from 9am, including BBC Live Lessons and BBC Bitesize Daily, as well as other educational programming such as Our School and Celebrity Supply Teacher and much loved titles such as Horrible Histories, Art Ninja and Operation Ouch.

If you can't watch when the programmes are initially shown (because you are in your Google classroom with your teacher and classmates), you can still access them on BBC Red Button, as well as episodes being available on demand on BBC iPlayer.

Also, BBC Bitesize online has an expanded offer of structured lessons in Maths and English for all year groups. ‘This Term’s Topics’ also covers other curriculum subjects and curates learning content that works for the Spring curriculum. 

Visit bbc.co.uk/bitesize, click on the year group and subject and all the content is there. If your child is working below that of their year group (possibly with a Special Educational Need), this gives you the flexibility to use resources and learning (especially for Maths and English skills) suitable to their learning level.

Window swap!

Bored of looking out of your own window? 

We all are at the moment!

For all of our mental health, we need to change our environment regularly to avoid going "stir crazy." Getting out for a walk or other exercise is extremely important. Try and do it every day if you can. 

On the days you can't get out, especially if it is raining and miserable weather outside, maybe looking at a view from somewhere else in the world will help to cheer you up.

Investigate views from windows around the world with WINDOW SWAP

Could you even write a story using the view from the window as the setting?

MENCAP- Parent Support Group this Thursday at 10am

The charity MENCAP is for people with a learning disability. They support their families and carers, too. 

Their parent support group in Greenwich is starting this Thursday, 7th January at 10am online via Zoom.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88492479506?pwd=V05BaDJOVmdCL04rVXIwSUhwQ3ZJZz09

Meeting ID: 884 9247 9506

Passcode: Greenlight

Bannockburn Bumper Winter Raffle 2020 Prizes

 

Bannockburn Bumper Winter Raffle 2020

Prizes

 

£50 Amazon Voucher from Berkeley Homes

Christmas Activity/Craft Hamper from Gurj Kalsi

2 x Celtic Design Earrings from Sue Jordan of SilverTebetanSilver.co.uk

A variety of games, celebratory glasses, ornaments and novelty items from Shelter

£10 Tesco Voucher from Clare Carebutt

£20 Body Shop at Home Voucher from Stacey Garrett of Stand Out With Stacey

£10 Cash

Praktika Digital Camera from Dot Warman

Custom Bathroom Bottles from Jodie Mulchrone of Cinders Lifestyle

Beyoncé Toiletries from Nita Patel of Temple Pharmacy

Garlic Rye Bites from Loreta Staske of Garlic.My.Bread

2 x Chocolates from Iceland Foods

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