Home-schooling Resources

From free books to SEN online lessons. Find everything you need to help with home learning.

Online SEN School Resources

HelpKidzLearn
Website: https://www.helpkidzlearn.com/
Description: a collection of games and resources designed for a range of educational needs and stages. It includes provision for school closure.

Oak National Academy
Website: https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom
This online classroom and resource hub for all offers daily videoed lessons and resources and has specialist classes too.

Do2learn
Website: https://do2learn.com/
Do2learn provides free resources to help with academics (although it is a US based organisation) as well as social skills, behavioral regulation activities, life skills and more.

Priory Woods School
Website: http://www.priorywoods.middlesbrough.sch.uk/page/?title=Resources&pid=3
Resources from an award-winning, innovative school, rated by Ofsted as outstanding and put together by SEND teachers. The resources include apps and programmes.

Inclusive Teach
Website: https://inclusiveteach.com/free-printable-sen-teaching-resources/
downloadable teaching resources to support pupils with SEND.

Institute of Education – UCL – University College London
Website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2020/mar/resources-available-support-homeschooling
A series of information resources to help parents, carers and families support pupils with SEND at home during the period of school closures.

Empowering Little Minds
Website: https://www.empoweringlittleminds.co.uk/resources-1-early-years-send
SEN Early Years resources: a multisensory practical alternative learning approach with printable worksheets for Preschool, Early Years & SEN children (Age 2-10 yrs) 

Monster Math App
Website: https://www.monstermath.app/
Monster Math is a fun K-5 math program designed to make your child love Math – no matter what proficiency they are at.

Online General School Resources

BBC Bitesize is offering regular daily lessons for homeschooling in English and Maths, as well as other core subjects

Twinkl curriculum materials and activites for teachers and parents

STEM Learning A selection of free activities and materials on Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths.

Seneca free interactive online learning platform for KS2 to A-level.

Oak National Academy Oak National Academy is a new collection of high-quality lessons and online resources. Backed by the Government, it has been created in response to the coronavirus lockdown.

For further references see this government website page.

Books

  • Borrow eBooks for FREE Cerebra are offering free borrowing of ebooks for 28 days. They have a special ADHD list of books, some for adults and some for kids, some about ADHD and some just to be enjoyed. Find our here how to get access.
  • Coping with COVID 19 A guide from students, to students.This guide has been created as part of the Rethink Mental Illness Step Up Universities project and is aimed at older students and adults. It’s packed full of tips and ideas to help you cope and stay well during COVID19. Find it here.
  • Struggling with ways to explain COVID19 to younger kids? The World Health Organisation have produced a book aimed at 6-11 year olds called ‘My Hero is You’ to help explain what the coronavirus is in a gentle way. Here are the links to the book and also to Take That’s Howard Donald narrating it on YouTube. Hard Copy of the Book: https://bit.ly/3avvYfN YouTube: http://ow.ly/gqok50zmyYG

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