Supporting your child (school closure)
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Below are a list of resources and ideas to support your child in the event of prolonged absence or school closure. If you need any help in supporting your children at home, eg passwords and usernames for Purplemash, Oxford Owl or Learner Journey then please email: closure_help@devonshire.portsmouth.sch.uk
Here are some new activities you can do at home with your child in addition to those already on this page For previous activities please click here
A bit of fun! Marcus Dilly visits our school to perform to the children and is now putting on some free shows on Facebook. Please click here to go to his Facebook page
Here is a link to Zest Dance Workshops who visit us every year
FREE BBC Bitesize Daily content for primary schools
Springboard have provided us with some vocabulary video clips and worksheets which might help Y2's in preparation this term for their transitions for juniors.
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The Oak National AcademyThe oak National Academy is a government-backed online school to support pupils while schools are closed. |
If you need any help in supporting your children at home, eg passwords and usernames for Purplemash, Oxford Owl or Learner Journey then please email: closure_help@devonshire.portsmouth.sch.uk
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Please find below the link for PurpleMash If you do not know your child's log in details please email: closure_help@devonshire.portsmouth.sch.uk |
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Please find below the link for Education City If you do not know your child's log in details please email: closure_help@devonshire.portsmouth.sch.uk |
Please click the link below for Phonics Play
To log in to Phonics Play use the following:
Username.............march20
Password..............home
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Please click the link below for Twinkl To support you during this period, Twinkl is offering every parent or carer in England access to all Twinkl resources totally free of charge. So your Children can have access to high-quality learning during any periods of disruption. Please click the link above and set up an account using the code UKTWINKLHELPS
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Year 2 e-portfolios (Learner Journey)
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Reception Parent Handouts |
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English |
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ReadingTo support your child with reading try the following websites!
Oxford Owl is an online resource that has a variety of ebooks which your children can access at home as well as at school. This can be through listening to the books whilst following the text, or reading them independently. Year R/Owls.............. Username: dev r Password: 1234 Squirrels.................... Username: dev squirrels Password: 1234 Hedgehogs................ Username: dev hedgehogs Password: 1234 Badgers..................... Username: dev badgers Password: 1234 Foxes......................... Username: dev foxes Password: 1234
Learning to Read, Literacy, Key Stage 1 A wonderful guided reading story with accompanying printable worksheets and guided reading discussion sheets. There are 80 interactive literacy games.
Objective: To read words with known spelling patterns. .... This is not so much a reading activity, rather more a starting point for discussion.
Fun activities to help children at KS1 learn more about Literacy. |
Storytime and activities
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Audio booksDavid Walliams - Live StoriesEvery day at 11am, you can listen one of David Walliams’ World’s Worst Children stories, so sit down, take a break, and enjoy 20ish minutes of pure fun! Click link below |
Stay at Home Story Time — Oliver Jeffers |
Kes GrayA different story everyday, until Coronavirus goes away! |
Free audio books |
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Phonics |
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There has been a huge shift in the past few years in how we teach reading in school. This is having a big impact in helping many children learn to read and spell. At Devonshire, we use the Jolly Phonics scheme as the core of our teaching strategy.
What is phonics and why is it so important? Phonics is recommended as the first strategy that children should be taught in helping them learn to read. It runs alongside other teaching methods such as Guided Reading and Shared Reading to help children develop all the other vital reading skills and hopefully give them a real love of reading.
What is Jolly Phonics? Jolly Phonics is a fun and child-centred approach to teaching letter sounds through synthetic phonics. With actions for each of the 42 letter sounds, the multi-sensory method is very motivating for children and teachers, who can see their students achieve.
Letter Sound Order The sounds are taught in a specific order (not alphabetically). This enables children to begin building words as early as possible. The letter sounds are split into seven groups as shown below.
How does Jolly Phonics work? Using a synthetic phonics approach, Jolly Phonics teaches children the five key skills for reading and writing. Complemented by Jolly Readers and Jolly Grammar, it provides a thorough foundation for teaching literacy over three years in school. The order of sounds and blends we teach: 1. Learning the letter sounds - Children are taught the 42 main letter sounds. This includes alphabet sounds as well as digraphs such as sh, th, ai and ue. 2. Learning letter formation - Using different multi-sensory methods, children learn how to form and write the letters. 3. Blending - Children are taught how to blend the sounds together to read and write new words. 4. Identifying the sounds in words (Segmenting) - Listening for the sounds in words gives children the best start for improving spelling. 5. Tricky words - Tricky words have irregular spellings and children learn these separately.
Visit the Jolly Learning website for more information about phonics and for details about resources which you might like to purchase to help you child at home. |
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Maths |
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Click the links below for some great online maths resources |
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Music
Portsmouth Music Hub - Song SourcePlease click the link below to access over 200 Primary Aged Songs
Please click here for information about the free musical opportunities available to families in the city. We kindly ask if the attached poster could be sent to parents. Both our weekly choir and free resources can be accessed by children currently studying at home and those who have returned to school.
Out of the Ark Music@HomeDuring the current climate, and with the challenges we are all facing in the coming weeks and months, we want to do everything we can to make our resources available to you for use at home. Music has an extraordinary power to bring us together, it can lift us when we feel low, energise us when we feel tired, and is something we all have in common. So, to help with the rhythms and routines of your new daily life, we are releasing seven songs, one for each day, all with challenges and activities related to each song. Every week for the next few weeks we will continue to add songs and resources. Click link below
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