Active Learning
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These outdoor /indoor challenges support pupils in understanding the concept of 2metres. You can adapt them to compare what you can fit into 1m, 500cm, 250cm.
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These outdoor/indoor challenges support pupils in understanding the concept of 20 seconds. You can scale the time up or down and compare them to what you can do in 10 seconds or a minute.
Years Rec-10
OAK national academy, as well as subject lessons, also run clubs covering art, religion, science
EYFS/Year 1
Bud’s Number Garden an online game for children in EYFS or those needing support with recognising numbers, counting and sequencing. Bud the bee invites you to explore his magical garden, try out his fun games and puzzles.
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Plan 15 minutes of fun challenges to complete. This resources gives you a list of different ideas.
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The Drama Geezers deliver workshops in schools. They’re posting a daily video on their YouTube channel with drama games and activities
KS2/KS3
Engineering challenge – Dyson have some great Engineering Challenges for KS2 upwards to have a go at.
Years 1-6
Natural curriculum offers a free programme of learning in which children are immersed in the wonders of nature, provoking their creativity and inspiring their imagination.
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Be Active Kids have provided a bubble recipe, instructions to make bubble wands and 25 fun activities to do
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Ideas for supporting pupils to structure all different genres of writing.
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Online interactive storytelling with The Storycellar. These 20-30 min videos provide stories for different age groups (3-6, 5-9, 7-12 and 8-14).
KS1 & KS2
Active Maths Quizzes for every year group! Answer the maths question and then match your movement to the answer!
KS1 & KS2
A free set of resources which will help your children stay active and support them with their maths learning. Download the Challenge Sheet pdf by clicking on the image for year groups y1/2, y3/4 and y5/6.
Year 5 & 6
Six maths outdoor challenges to hook upper key stage 2 back into maths.
Why not try the Relay trim trail, Grassy Fractions, Rainy Day puddles or Shadowy Spaces?
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Why not have a go at these 6 different outdoor games (Push the ball, shuttle runs, long jump, long distance run, high jump, throw a beanbag) and then record your results? Team record sheet included.
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“There is a wealth of evidence to suggest that exposure to nature is good for both the physical and psychological health of children,” says child psychologist Dr Sandra Scott. Fundamentally, gardening can improve children’s key cognitive, motor, personal and social skills which could help them progress both academically and socially.
KS1/KS2
Natural Connections resources are aimed at teachers who are new to outdoor learning and are intended as an initial helping hand to get started. Teachers with more experience in taking lessons outside will be able to adapt them and take them to the next level.
KS1/KS2
Practice finger counting, songs and rhymes why not try skip counting for learning tables, check out the videos on YouTube.
KS2 & KS3
A new picture is posted every day with a story opening for children to continue; questions to discuss about the picture and a grammar-related activity. A great one stop-shop with a year’s worth of pictures to choose from. Can be downloaded as PDFs to print.
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There is great potential for developing orienteering within schools with simplified and progressive orienteering activities that can take place in the school grounds or inside the classroom. Orienteering is also a cross curricular activity and can support subjects such as Maths, PE and Geography.
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This website has a wide range of fun games, puzzles and challenges for you to use on your playground or in the school grounds to explore mathematics.
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Lots of activities linked to the 4 elements – fire, water, air, earth helping support speech and language, listening and drama skills.
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Philosophy for Children promotes a forum for open dialogue in which participants are not content to exchange ideas and opinions as if they were bits of information. Instead they ask questions, sift arguments and explore alternatives. Above all, they try to understand each other. Some free resources as well as possible subscription
Nursery/EYFS
Small talk provides a wealth of outdoor and indoor activities and ideas to support early reading
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Active Learning Strategies help to initiate learners and instructors into effective ways to help everyone engage in activities based on ideas about how people learn. Multiple active learning strategies may be used in each of the active learning designs. Review an annotated list of active learning strategies
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Plenty of free teaching resources on this site giving you lots of ideas for outdoor learning linked to all aspects of the curriculum.
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Ten fun activities to explore the number 10 using everyday objects.
KS1 & KS2
This YouTube channel from CLPE (Centre for Literacy in Primary Education) has 11 short videos of well-known children’s authors demonstrating how they draw some of their characters. Children can watch and pause the video, copy alongside them and maybe even create their own new stories for the characters.
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Resources to purchase including outdoor waterproof story mats (£12.50) outdoor immersive backdrops (£80). pack of outdoor literacy resources (£120) but include many things you have in school already
EYFS/KS1
Map making activities inspired by Going on a Bear Hunt.
KS2 & KS3
Elementari is a K-12 online platform to read, write, code, share, and remix interactive stories using professional illustrations and sounds.