Useful Links – Highfield

CORONAVIRUS UPDATES AND ATTACHMENTS

Here is a summary of the recent letters that we have sent out through our primary provider ParentMail that enables messages to be delivered straight to your registered email in school.

Letter to Keyworkers

Highfield CE Primary School home learning parents UPDATED

More letters and updates will be posted but the primary source of evidence for schools remains as the DFE and the public news programmes. Please keep yourself updated!

There are arrangements for online content delivery that will be shared shortly but please refer to the letter above in the first instance

Coronavirus Links:

https://what0-18.nhs.uk/popular-topics/coronavirus

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-educational-settings-about-covid-19/guidance-to-educational-settings-about-covid-19

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-action-plan

Internet Safety Advice:

Childline: https@//childline.org or 0800 11111

UK Safer internet centre to report harmful content https://reportharmfulcontent.org

CEOP for advice about making a report about online abuse https://ceop.police.uk/safety-centre

Additional support for parents and carers to keep their children safe on-line can be found on:

Internet matters https://internetmatters.org

London Grid for Learning http://lgfl.net/online-safety

Net-aware https://net-aware.org.uk support form the NSPCC for parents

Parent info https://parentinfo.org

Thinkuknow http://thinkuknow.co.uk advice from the National Crime Agency

UK Safer Internet Centre https://www.saferinternet.org/advice-centre/parents-and-carers

Public Health Nursing Update

Home Learning

To supplement the resources that your child’s teacher has already provided for you, here is a list of websites that they might like to try out whilst learning from home.

General

https://online.espresso.co.uk/espresso/login/Authn/UserPassword (Espresso – log on with the username student15299 and the password highfield)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/wellbeing-parents/school-closures-category-free-resources-parents/school-closures-free-resources-parents (In addition to the resources here, some of the content on the rest of the site is also free. Also try https://www.twinkl.co.uk/home-learning-hub)

https://plprimarystars.com/news/home-learning-activities-school-closures (Football related activities)

https://www.teaglo.com/blog/free-home-learning-resources-for-parents-during-school-closures/ (links to a wide variety of educational websites)

https://2simple.com/free-access/

https://www.ltl.org.uk/resources/outdoor-learning-at-home/

Maths

https://www.themathsfactor.com (Currently free, usually about £2 a week)

https://ttrockstars.com/ (Children should have their own logons for this)

https://pages.sumdog.com/ (Free during the school closure period)

Literacy

https://www.sirlinkalot.org/ (Spelling, punctuation and grammar. Free until 12th June, usually £6.99 a month)

https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/ (Free daily audio story from David Walliams for 30 days)

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/books/free-ebooks/ (Free eBooks – you just need to sign up for free)

https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/ (Phonics games for early readers. Free during the school closure period)

Computing

https://scratch.mit.edu/ (Free 2D coding software, regularly used in Key Stage 2. Infant children have also used the Junior version at https://www.scratchjr.org/)

https://www.kodugamelab.com/ (Free 3D coding software, recently used in Year 5/6)

https://education.minecraft.net/ (A number of Minecraft lessons, now available for free until the end of June)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zf2f9j6/articles/z3c6tfr (Online typing lessons – an important life skill!)

Music

https://www.southamptonmusichub.org/resources (Click ‘View Shared Resources’ then ‘Playing At Home’ for a variety of weekly resources)

https://www.singup.org/home-schooling (A selection of free music resources to keep children singing!)

https://www.thebodycoach.com/blog/pe-with-joe-1254.html (Daily workout at 9am)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC58aowNEXHHnflR_5YTtP4g (Daily dance classes)

https://www.testlands.com/online-learning (A variety of videos to try, categorised by year group)

Other Useful Links

For keeping children safe online: https://www.net-aware.org.uk/news/

Tools to enhance the child/parent relationship: Family TLC

School Uniform: https://www.koolskools.co.uk/product-category/highfield-church-of-england-school-southampton/

Koolskools is the Highfield school’s Fairtrade uniform supplier. The Koolskools uniform can be purchased in the following ways:
Koolskools have a shop in Shirley (387 Shirley Rd, SO15 3TS), where HIghfield uniform is always available.

Koolskoolsuniform can also be purchased online from the Koolskools website: https://www.koolskools.co.uk/product-category/highfield-church-of-england-school-southampton/ (modest postal charges will apply). Highfield has a dedicated uniform page on the Koolskools site to assist with ordering.

Please note: Items without the logo can be purchased from any large supermarket/store selling school uniform.

Starting School

Below is useful information in the form of a resource pack/publication for Families and schools entitled ‘A clean and Healthy start to School’ that covers hygiene topics relevant to all parents and carers of children starting school:

A Clean & Healthy Start to School April 2016