Phil Morriss – Holbeach Blog

As you will be aware, the government has ordered that from Monday 4th January, all London primary schools will be required to provide remote learning to the vast majority of their children.

At Holbeach, we are providing Remote Learning via Microsoft Teams. Your child will need to log in to their online classroom using the log in details the school provided you with previously. They will then have access to the following timetable each day:

Time	Activity
9:15am – 10:15am	‘Live Lesson’ with your class teacher (via Teams)
10:15am – 10:30am	Assembly (via Teams-click into your Teams Calendar to access this everyday)
10:30am – 11:00am	Morning Break
11:00am – 12:00pm	‘Live Lesson’ with your class teacher (via Teams)
12:00pm – 1:00pm	Lunch Break
1:00pm – 2:00pm	‘Live Lesson’ with your class teacher (via Teams)
2:00pm – 3:30pm	Independent Learning Time (class teachers will provide suggestions for activities that the children can try away from Teams)

Click here to download ‘Microsoft Teams’

For your children, learning in this way will be a relatively new experience. Therefore, it is vital that you take the time to look through the agreements for Remote Learning below.

While we appreciate that very young children will always require a significant amount of time and attention from the adult that they are with at home, we are confident that your experience of the remote learning we are providing this term will be a positive one. Feedback from the parents and carers in the classes who are experiencing this kind of learning has been hugely encouraging.

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At Holbeach, we already have some fantastic online resources that are available to use at home. Your child has logins for all these programs, which will support their learning. Click on the Program you wish to open

Times Table RockStars

Make learning Times Tables fun. Times Table Rock Stars allows children to create a rock star character, practise their times tables and the corresponding division facts and ‘buy’ things for their rock star.

NumBots

Since the success of Times Tables Rockstars in encouraging children to master times table and division fact instant recall, we would like their skills with mental addition and subtraction to be just as good. NumBots will help! All children start at the same place in Story mode, and when they get to a certain stage they will unlock Challenge mode.

** To use NumBots just use your Rockstars Username and Password to login **

My Maths

My Maths develops pupils’ confidence and fluency in Maths through fun activities. There are hundreds of lessons and self-marking homework tasks, worksheets, and games.

Bug Club

Bug Club is the only whole-school reading programme that brilliantly combines an online reading world with fantastic print books, and assessment tools. All children at Holbeach have an account for this fantastic online reading resource.

Microsoft Teams

Welcome to our Online Learning platform. Microsoft Teams is a collaborative online platform for staff and students to use. It allows your children to complete work and see work set by their teachers. Click here to download ‘Teams’

LGfL – London Grid for Learning

Everyone at Holbeach has access to the ‘London Grid for Learning.’ The London Grid for Learning is a community of schools and local authorities committed to using technology to enhance teaching and Learning.

One unique aspect of the LGfL service is the huge array of teaching and learning resources included, all of which can also be used at home by pupils using their LGfL login.

Click here to access the fantastic learning resources available

Click here to access LGfL mail

A Guide to using LGfL

To login to LGfL use your Teams login, but instead of @holbeach.lewisham.sch.uk it is @lgfl.net and the password is the same, however no need for the hashtags (#)

BBC Bitesize – Daily Lessons

The BBC have got lessons full of videos, quizzes and practice activities to help you keep on track when learning at home. Pick your year and subject to get started!

Click here to access BBC Bitesize – Daily Lessons

Bitesize has plenty of straightforward lessons in Primary Maths and Primary English. The BBC are supporting learning at home with collections of educational resources including quizzes, videos and activities hand-picked from BBC Bitesize and the wider BBC, for other subjects such as Science, History and Geography.

The curriculum-based content is developed by educational consultants and is organised by topic or theme to make it easy for you to find.

Click here for a guide to how BBC Bitesize can help you learn on TV and online