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Some of our Favourite Things

by Hannah McGrath | Apr 7, 2020 | Latest News, News | 0 comments

Some of our Favourite Things

This week’s favourite things!

  • Royal Opera House – Serene Swan Headdress

  • Real Ideas’ Bluff it

  • Into Film – Get creative with archive

  • Tate Kids – Soap Carving

  • SS Great Britain – Stuff to do at home

Links to ideas, activities and support for children and families during lockdown.

Curriculum Linked

  • BBC Teach: Home to thousands of free curriculum-mapped videos, arranged by age-group and subject
  • Craft Council – School resources

Tech Linked

  • Online cyber security & computer science education
  • Computing curriculum online
  • Microsoft platform for developing programming skills by quickly creating and modding retro arcade games
  • Barefoot – Home learning
  • Side Quest – Design your own video game

Activities, Crafts and Fun

  • Real Ideas’ Bluff it

  • How I See Tomorrow

  • School Reading List – Children’s Writing Competition

  • Into Film – Get creative with archive

  • Tate Kids – Soap Carving

  • SS Great Britain – Stuff to do at home

  • Royal Opera House – Serene Swan Headdress

  • Torre Abbey – Young People’s Lockdown Photography Competition

  • Listing of free online boredom-busting resources

  • Making the most of the outdoors around you
  • Drama workshops for primary and secondary
  • Early Arts creative ideas for families and schools
  • Inspired indoor activity from the Scouts
  • Crafts Council – Craft for Home School
  • Into Film – Best family films to stream at home
  • Medium – Simple and fun non-screen activities
  • Literacy Zone’s Book of Hopes
  • Theatre Alibi – Things for Now
  • IKEA furniture forts

Arts & Culture

  • National Portrait Gallery – Hold Still

  • The Box Plymouth – COVID19 Collection

  •  Bristol Museums

  • Online theatre and dance
  • Sadler’s Wells Theatre
  • Getty museum Challenge
  • Royal Shakespeare Company – Live lessons
  • From Lockdown with Love
  • Royal Opera House – Learning Platform
  • Bristol Plays Music – Let the music play
  • Get Creative 2020
  • Into Film – Competition
  • At Home With Nature, Somerset
  • Rambert Home Studio
  • Young People’s Trust for the Environment
  • Unicorn Theatre – A free streaming theatre for children aged 3-8
  • Kneehigh
  • Ancient Mariner Big Read
  • Contains Arts – Challenges to do at home
  • The Box, Plymouth – Creative curriculum
  • Real Ideas’ Future Make Challenges
  • Hall For Cornwall – Home is Where the Heart Is
  • Bristol Museum and Art Gallery – Weekly themed activities
  • Artist Darrell Wakelam – #ArtJumpStart
  • Above Bounds – Activities for families
  • Little Angel Theatre – Puppetry fun
  • Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra – Summer activities

Links to articles providing thoughts and support for home schooling:

  • Real Ideas: help for home-working parents 1
  • ‘Try to minimise stress’: how to home-school your child
  • Experts’ tips on surviving – even enjoying – life under lockdown
  • Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour; Five Tips for Home Schooling
  • Coronavirus Tech Handbook

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