Step by step guide to draw a bird

Teach your child how to draw detailed birds with the help of this template.

Drawing is an excellent activity for children as is offers all sorts of benefits, both physically and mentally. These included improving hand-eye coordination, heightened concentration and development of fine motor skills.

Post your finished pictures on the school’s facebook page!

Leaf necklace activity

Making a Leaf necklace is a fun outdoor threading activity perfect for young children in any educational setting. Children can collect the leaves for their leaf necklace during their outdoor play or on a visit to the local woods. They can then develop their fine motor skills whilst threading the leaves onto their very own leaf necklace.

Post your finished necklaces on the school’s facebook page!

Check your change!

A useful worksheet for practising adding and subtracting money to check amounts of change.

Symmetry – Numeracy

This handy Symmetry Powerpoint about symmetry with a particular focus on how symmetrical designs are used in Islamic architecture and design, along with two different worksheets to help consolidate your child’s learning.

Mosque Symmetry Activity Sheet

Prayer Mat Symmetry Activity Sheet

Draw your favourite move!

This BBC Children in Need Joe Wicks Draw your favourite move activity! is an ideal way to support your children to get more exercise. They can make up a move or use one they know and feel they are good at. They would draw this move and then say how they will make sure they carry on doing it. It might be that they will do their favourite move to help them to exercise first thing in the morning, after lunch or at some other time of the day.

Eight times table practise!

Follow this BBC Bitesize Link.

Use these 8 times table practise sheets to assist children with exploring and practising the eight times tables.

Print and play this 8 times table board game to consolidate your learning whilst playing a fun game at the same time.

Make your own board game!

The resources in this resource pack will give you everything you need to make a homemade board game.

Board games are a great activity to support your child’s learning of different subjects, or just to play for fun!

The templates include a range of different board designs you can make at home, cards to use for forfeits or questions, and even an instruction writing template.

Scavenger hunt!

Use this fun ‘Around the House Scavenger Hunt’ to teach your children about the simple properties of some common household objects. Can they find items that are soft, shiny or see-through in the home or garden?

What objects are made of metal or wood? Perfect for a fun, science-themed home learning activity while the schools are closed.

What Animal am I?

Why not try this What am I? – Animal Quiz as part of a family quiz? You could play in teams or on your own to see who is the best animal detective!

Healthy Eating Diary

A Food Diary template like this is a great way to note down everything you’re eating on a weekly basis. This simple yet effective food journal enables you and your children to record what they’ve eaten for each meal over the course of a week.You can display these on your fridge or on the wall in your kitchen as a fun way of incorporating healthy eating into your household.

Dice Dilemma!

Follow this BBC Bitesize link and read the learning summary slideshow (6 slides)

Then complete the two activities below. You will need a die for the first game and you will create your very own die in the second game!

Mr Whoops’ Spelling Mistakes!

Let me introduce Mr Whoops- he’s a little clumsy when it comes to spelling! Can your pupils spot his mistakes, which are all taken from the Y3/Y4 statutory spelling list? The perfect way of seeing how well your children REALLY know their statutory spellings!

Why not try one of Mr Whoops’ Spelling Sheets each day?

Multiplication Mosaics

These Multiplication Mosaics times tables worksheets will help children practise those all-important number facts. These sheets cover multiplication facts to 12 x 12. Why not try completing one sheet each day?

Pebble Art

Pebble art has become a really popular hobby. People decorate pebbles and then hide them in all kinds of places, such as parks, beaches and even shopping centres. When you go on a pebble hunt, you can either keep the pebbles you find or hide them again for someone else to find. You could get the adult with you to take a photo of a pebble if you are going to re-hide it. There are Internet groups on social media where an adult could post a photo of the pebble you have found.

You could even post your completed work on the St George’s Facebook Page!

Follow these instructions to find out how to make your own Pebble Art!

Home Exercise Log

How many minutes of exercise do you do every day? It is important to try and do at least 60 minutes of physical activity a day. Record how much daily exercise you are doing each day with this Home Exercise Log.

You can follow Joe Wicks’ Live workout sessions every weekday morning at 8:55am here to help!

Mindfulness Activities

Use these Mindfulness Activities to help students focus and practice mindfulness. The worksheets can be used individually or together to create a mindfulness workbook. Each page contains beautiful illustrations and writing prompts to help students practice mindful focus.