[SA Chris]

I though this was good for starters.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/mar/23/let-your-kids-get-bored-emergency-advice-from-teachers-on-schooling-at-home

My nearly 8 and 10 yo have done very little so far, not sweating it yet, just going to find our own rhythm. It has become transparent that out aging ipads chock full of games, photos and crap are not suited for all the apps schools have asked us to download, there has been a purge and we are trying again tomorrow.

[RobertHowden]

Was hoping there'd be a thread for this. Two days in with no disasters so far. September still seems like a very long way away though.

 Has anyone got tips for how to put together a mini film from mobile phone footage editing? I've promised my eldest that she can do her explorers project as a tv programme. I'd envisaged filming her doing a little talk on my phone then cutting with that some stills harvested from google. Now wondering if I've bitten off more than I can chew already.

[Oldmanmatt]

Cute Cut, is an excellent little editing suite on iOS ( assume there’s an Android version).
Intuitive and you can slap out fairly professional clip in a few minutes.

[Stuart Anderson]

30 minutes fitness HIIT for the kids (and dad's in this case) if you've not seen it already.

Joe Wicks on YouTube 09:00 Live.

He's what I would describe as a bit 'keen' but he's actually pretty infectious (no pun).

Not a bad way to start the day.

[mrjonathanr]

I thought this was something to do with celebrating Sabbath for a minute there...

Good thread. Some I know, some I am exploring, some are yet to be explored.
General Primary and Secondary:

Seneca adjusts as you learn, loads of subjects and levels
https://www.senecalearning.com/
Twinkl -use UKTWINKLHELPS code to get free
https://www.twinkl.co.uk/offer

Maths
Dr Frost comes highly recommended, includes resources and powerpoints for you to teach/go over with kids
https://www.drfrostmaths.com/
I thought this looks good
https://uk.ixl.com/math/
Carole Vorderman
https://www.themathsfactor.com/

English:
Activities at
https://www.worldbookday.com/
Free David Walliams audiobook every 30 day I am told


For Modern Foreign Languages
Languagesonline. Free language learning, varied, academic, range of languages.
https://languagesonline.org.uk/Hotpotatoes/index.html
Outside of school hours (I know) Zut has a range of free resources in Fr/Ge/Sp
http://www.zut.org.uk/index.html
Language nut is excellent, subscription
https://www.languagenut.com/en-gb/
Memrise has loads of vocab learning
https://www.memrise.com/home/

Quizlet has loads too, search me for short quizzes for Ys 7-10 Spanish vocabulary, feel free to ask to join a class, mostly Mira1 and 2 text books.
https://quizlet.com/subject/JReti/

There’s a lot more out there, Twitter is your friend on this.

[mrjonathanr]

 Has anyone got tips for how to put together a mini film from mobile phone footage editing

Spent quite a while looking for decent free software, settled on this, open source, Kdenlive.
https://kdenlive.org/en/

[Wood FT]

For Primary level numeracy:

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning

Lessons for each year group, good reasoning mastery stuff.

And for literacy:

www.pobble365.com

Daily stimulus and array of tasks underneath. Nice and creative.

[tomtom]

For our little one 3 3/4 we’re theming each day. Today was pirate day and tomorrow space day etc...

[nai]

Free David Walliams audiobook every 30 day I am told

Short story rather than book, the twitter link lands here, looks like it updates daily so only one available at a time

https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/

[SamT]

12 and 14 yo boys in the house.  Its been tense at times, but to be fair, last couple of days have been chilled.  School are setting a shed load of tasks on 'Show my Homework' app.  Which they're ploughing through, as fast as possible, till they can say they've done it all and get on the ps4. 

We only have one that they share.  I've nearly caved in several times and allowed them to buy a second, just to stop the constant bickering over it, and my fingers been hovering over the checkout button again recently. But I resisted, and today, they've really gelled a bit and are getting on.  How long it lasts remains to be seen.  Got them to go out for a run and a cycle too in this lovely spring weather.

Been fretting about the PS4 thing, but its their main way of keeping in touch and 'playing' with their mates.

Than a mate who's a primary school teacher posted this, which made me relax about it all and think, they are actually working quite well in the morning. Chill.

[mrjonathanr]

big collection of links for home schooling
https://padlet.com/rholmesKSA/HLR

Oxford reading tree. Free ebooks ages 3-11
https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/books/free-ebooks/

[Andy F]

YouTube has lots of good revision channels such as this one for maths/science: https://www.youtube.com/user/virtualschooluk

Also: https://www.physicsandmathstutor.com/ had lots of revision materials across maths and science to A level

[JR]

If you have kids of learning to read age, then we've made Teach Your Monster to Read £0.99/$0.99 - normally £4.99. We're approaching 200 million plays now (c. 2 million unique children per month using it), BAFTA nominated and DfE approved now too, it covers everything from letters and sounds to reading full sentences.

Once downloaded, it's free to continue to use on that device even after the promotion has ended.

App store download links:

Apple: apple.co/2V92VL5
Amazon UK: amzn.to/2PjLBiJ
Amazon US: amzn.to/2VgOwfR
Google (£0.99 / $0.99 now): bit.ly/2cohkeR

It's also free to play on laptops and PCs in browser at teachyourmonstertoread.com

[SA Chris]

My daughter has been doing videos with Stop Motion Studio for a while now. It's really easy to use, just need a secure mount for a phone or tablet - I have a gorillapod with a phone clamp, but otherwise it could be a good LEGO project to make one.

It obviously takes ages to do (which is great) but once complete you can add sound and voices, and share easily.

My son has been running with me, but daughter doing Wicks workout. I think she's quite keen on him, overtaken AJ off strictly.

[adamb]

Some random things (maybe mentioned above, sorry if so). Mainly targetted at secondary maths, but some for younger too.

Hegarty Maths is great (servers have been struggling) but depends on schools having signed up to it. If they are, get your children on it!

Dr Frost mentioned above is also good (like a free version of Hegarty) and can sign up individually. If your kids enjoy maths then look through his Y7-11 slides from his own school (his is a top performing grammar school I think, so they go quickly but they're great).

Corbett maths is also good - has videos and then accompanying exercises. Similar vein to the above but (unlike Hegarty) free.

Timestables Rockstars is great for loads of age groups I think. Quite addictive (even to me, need to beat the kids!). Bruno (the founder) has made it free to all schools for 60 days so hopefully your kids' schools have it. If not, you can get a family subscription I think (maybe not free though).

By the same makers, Numbots (numbots.com) is about addition and subtraction - similarly addictive, starts really basic (just counting) and nice storyline running through it.

Good luck to all the parents out there! Ask your kids about what they learnt today - see if they can explain it back to you. Massive well dones for independent learning. We're basically asking a generation of kids to get really good at learning in a style that I didn't really sort out till I got to uni (and maybe not even then!).

Adam

[sidewinder]

Can see both sides of this but thought I would mention new playstation and Xbox both being released this year (in theory) which I suspect could end up on Xmas lists...

12 and 14 yo boys in the house.  Its been tense at times, but to be fair, last couple of days have been chilled.  School are setting a shed load of tasks on 'Show my Homework' app.  Which they're ploughing through, as fast as possible, till they can say they've done it all and get on the ps4. 

We only have one that they share.  I've nearly caved in several times and allowed them to buy a second, just to stop the constant bickering over it, and my fingers been hovering over the checkout button again recently. But I resisted, and today, they've really gelled a bit and are getting on.  How long it lasts remains to be seen.  Got them to go out for a run and a cycle too in this lovely spring weather.

Been fretting about the PS4 thing, but its their main way of keeping in touch and 'playing' with their mates.

Than a mate who's a primary school teacher posted this, which made me relax about it all and think, they are actually working quite well in the morning. Chill.

[Oldmanmatt]

We have 2 between 4
That seems to  work, not least because allotting change over  times helps to limit individual times. 

Also, currently branded worlds worst father, after sending number3 back to redo the last hour’s maths, with workings out and presented in a legible fashion...

[SA Chris]

LOL, I'm reviewing assignments, providing comments and requesting resubmission before approval and submitting to teacher too.

I'm getting great at Sonic All Stars racing, son and i are always first and second now. If anyone wants to join in on XBOX live, give me a shout.

[RobertHowden]

I had a quick play with cute cut, it's amazingly easy. Kdenlive looks like it would be the next step, maybe for week 4. Thanks for the suggestions.

Our school has created accounts with Purple Mash which was great until the youngest managed to reduce the font size to about 4 point for both logins ...

[Hoseyb]

Our school has created accounts with Purple Mash which was great until the youngest managed to reduce the font size to about 4 point for both logins ...

Chrome has a zoom in the settings, my kids have often played same prank/cock up

[mrjonathanr]

CTRL + mouse wheel to zoom in/out

[tomtom]

CTRL + mouse wheel to zoom in/out

CTRL + 0 (zero) to set it to default.

[Hoseyb]

Just saw this on Facebook
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10158386508046474&id=560826473&extid=gkGSNkXOdu2kP6J0&d=null&vh=i

Hope its visible