Learning Resources Available At Home for Child Use
The following resources are available for your child to access at school and home, to help them with their education.
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Google Apps for Education We have enrolled the school for G Suit for education, all children from Year 1 to Year 6 have a school account. This gives them access to the complete Google suite, powerful tools to allow collaboration, a free set of office tools, including Mail, Classroom, Google Drive, Docs, Slide, Sheets, Forms. Children can also logon to chromebooks, which we are also trialing in the hope to get more in the future. Google Chrome Is the easiest way for the children to logon to their G Suite account to use their school account. Passwords are saved so when they acces all the resources below they have quick access to these resources. It also gives them quick access to the office tools. The Chrome web browser is free to download if you don't have it at home. Times Tables Rock Stars
We use various methods in school to teach children the times tables, including TT Rock Stars. Additionally we have brought Times Tables Rock Stars to support your children's learning of the times tables at home. So every child has a logon and can practise at home. The more children practise the more tokens they earn, they can then use these tokens to buy clothes and instruments within the software. Numbots
NumBots helps understanding, recall and fluency in mental addition and subtraction, to support children moving from counting to calculating. This web based resource is very good for KS1 but all our children have access to it. My Maths
Is a web based interactive maths learning tool for the whole school. It covers number, measurement, geometry and statistics. It gives children an online lesson teaching a mathematical concept and then exercises follow to practise what has been learnt. This is a good tool used along side teaching to help embed the understanding and application of maths. Children learn at their own pace. They can also logon to their own portal area if homework is set in this way. Discovery Education Espresso
Discovery Education Espresso is a whole school, whole curriculum learning resources. It is used throughout the whole school as a teaching tool but children also have home access to this amazing resource. It covers everything. Phonics Play
Phonics Play is used in Foundation, Year 1 and Year 2 as a teaching tool. Access has been saved to the children's google chromebook toolbar, so they can use it at home. Letter Join
Letter-join is a cursive handwriting scheme for the whole school offering a combination of traditional and digital resources. These include classroom presentations, handwriting activities, online games and hundreds of worksheets tailored to print with or without a lead-in line. Spelling Shed
Spelling Shed is used from year 1 to year 6 to assist children with learning their spellings for home and school use. Their teacher will set them spelling games to play which will help embed the words into memory. Purple Mash
Purple Mash is used throughout the whole school to teach the computing curriculum, It is also used to embed computing and digital skills across your whole curriculum for KS1 and KS2. Every student has a logon to purple mash which is accessible in school and at home. Scratch
Scratch is a free programming language for children aged 8 to 16 years, it is web based but can also be downloaded to run from a computer. For those children who enjoy coding this is a free resource you could allow them to use at home. The children are not allowed to create an account at school but are told to go home and ask their parent / guardian's permission as their parents email address is used to create the account. This allows them to save the scratch projects online rather than their computer. |
Resources Available At Home for Parental Use
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Tapestry Online Learning Journal
Is for parents who have children in Foundation Stage and is an online learning journal helping staff and families to celebrate children's learning and development. For more information on Tapestry see their website. Tapestry is best used through an app which parents have on their phone, it allows parents to upload their children's development, they will also see the uploads from the school on a termly basis. Class Dojo
We use Class Dojo across all classes at Tickford Park, to connect with our parents and school community. Teachers will publish information, photos and videos to their class story to help communication between school and home. Parents can also make contact through the app and be notified when news is posted. Teachers also use Dojo points to reward our children for exhibiting the school’s values of Ready, Respectful and Safe. Mr Smith gives out awards when children reach a milestones. Parents Evening System Parents consultation evenings are held twice a year and we use an online booking system to accommodate this. All children who attend Tickford Park are linked to the system, which makes booking appointments very quick and easy from any web browser. School Gateway
Gateway is for anything payable to Tickford Park School i.e. clubs/educational visits. School meals use Parent Pay. |
