Remote Learning
In the event of a whole school closure or the temporary closure of individual bubbles due to a positive case of COVID 19, remote learning will commence online the next working day.
Aims of Remote Learning
Our aim is for pupils to access the full curriculum learning for their year group using the online platform through the use of Google Classroom, Google Meet, Seesaw and Tapestry.
Below are some useful sites to use with your child(ren) which may support you in your home learning.
Google Classroom - Online classroom area
Google Classroom enables teachers to create an online classroom area in which they can manage all the documents that their students need. Documents are stored on Google Drive and can be edited in Drive’s apps, such as Google Docs, Sheets, and so on. But what separates Google Classroom from the regular Google Drive experience is the teacher/student interface, which Google designed for the way teachers and students think and work. Google Classroom sits between you and Google Drive and provides a teacher/student-friendly way of managing classroom documents.
Seesaw - Platform for online engagement
Seesaw is a platform for student engagement. Teachers can empower students to create, reflect, share, and collaborate. Students “show what they know” using photos, videos, drawings, text, PDFs, and links. It’s simple to get student work in one place and share with families, and nothing is shared without teacher approval.
Tapestry - Online journal for Nursery and Reception
Tapestry builds a very special record of a child’s experiences, development and learning journey through their early years and primary education. Using photos, videos and diary entries, a teacher or early years practitioner, along with the child’s parents, ‘weaves’ the story of the child and how they are growing and developing. The Tapestry platform then works seamlessly to enable these memories to be kept as a permanent record of each child’s unique journey. All information held in the platform is stored securely, and can be downloaded and shared as required. Parents are able to view online their child’s progress and how much fun they’re having, whilst also uploading their own comments and media.
The communication between staff and parents that Tapestry enables, helps build a shared understanding of how every child can reach their full potential, from birth to the end of primary school. The Tapestry online learning journal is also available as an easy-to-use, secure app, meaning capturing key learning moments, and videoing milestones are even easier.
The communication between staff and parents that Tapestry enables, helps build a shared understanding of how every child can reach their full potential, from birth to the end of primary school. The Tapestry online learning journal is also available as an easy-to-use, secure app, meaning capturing key learning moments, and videoing milestones are even easier.
TT Rockstars - Daily times tables practice
Times Tables Rock Stars is a fun and challenging programme designed to help pupils master the times tables.
Times Tables Rock Stars can be used in the classroom as whole-group instruction, a math centre, or homework. You can set which multiplication facts you should be working on. Depending on classroom access, you can choose to print worksheets or play the game on the app or website. You can complete worksheets, but the app and website make timing your speed easier.
To be a Times Table Rock Star you need to answer any multiplication fact up to 12×12 in less than 3 seconds!
Times Tables Rock Stars can be used in the classroom as whole-group instruction, a math centre, or homework. You can set which multiplication facts you should be working on. Depending on classroom access, you can choose to print worksheets or play the game on the app or website. You can complete worksheets, but the app and website make timing your speed easier.
To be a Times Table Rock Star you need to answer any multiplication fact up to 12×12 in less than 3 seconds!
Phonicsplay - Interactive phonics games
There has been a huge shift in the past few years in how we teach reading in UK schools. This is having a big impact and helping many children learn to read and spell. 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.
Oxford Owl - Free e-books
Oxford Owl was written specially for parents and carers by leading experts in education, it’s to help you be as well-informed as you can be, making sure you have everything you need to support your child on their journey through school. From learning to read, to tackling tricky maths, from the very first day at school, to the big move up to secondary, Oxford Owl provides all the important information you need, when you need it. On this site you can find the perfect book for your child, boost your child’s English and maths skills with fun activity books, prepare your child for SATs or simply print some colouring sheets.
Topmarks - Games and online activities
Topmarks gives children the opportunity to learn online, through safe, fun and engaging games and activities.
We feature great, educationally sound online resources. Topmarks is a safe environment for children because we only include trustworthy, reliable educational content. A good place to start is our fun learning games area.
A teacher
Topmarks helps teachers and parents save time finding the best, inspirational educational web resources.
We include only the best educational websites on our site, saving you time in trawling the web and providing you and your pupils with safe access to high quality, free teaching and learning resources.
We feature great, educationally sound online resources. Topmarks is a safe environment for children because we only include trustworthy, reliable educational content. A good place to start is our fun learning games area.
A teacher
Topmarks helps teachers and parents save time finding the best, inspirational educational web resources.
We include only the best educational websites on our site, saving you time in trawling the web and providing you and your pupils with safe access to high quality, free teaching and learning resources.
Explorify - Science activities
Free resources of engaging, creative science activities that have been designed to spark curiosity, discussion and debate. From video to hands-on activities, it’s easy to get Explorifying!
World Geography Games
This website will bring you many entertaining and stimulating map games to improve your geographical knowledge. The quizzes include questions about countries, capitals, flags, regions, bodies of water, mountains, deserts, metropolitan areas and other topics that will test and challenge your brain.
Espresso - a video rich cross curicular resource
We use Discovery Education Espresso in school to help motivate, engage and support learning in the classroom. Now your child can continue to enjoy what they have been doing at school, and you can be involved in their learning at home. Espresso is an online cross-curricular service that provides video-rich resources to schools throughout the UK. It contains thousands of videos and multimedia activities, as well as a weekly news service — all designed by teaching professionals.
Purple Mash - Cross curricular learning
Purple Mash is a cloud-based platform for primary-aged children. It contains a wide range of age-appropriate, creative software tools for writing, drawing, coding, animating, blogging and much more. ... Purple Mash contains digital tools for writing, drawing, painting and activities across the curriculum.
You can log in to Purple Mash on desktops, laptops and tablets.
Learning Powers at Morgans
At Morgans school we use Building Learning Power as part of our aim to develop independent learners with a growth mindset. Lifelong learning is our birth right and we can continually develop our capacity to learn throughout our lives.
Research suggests that there are several dispositions that we need to develop in order to become successful lifelong learners.
Guy Claxton, who has created Building Learning Power, suggests that there are key learning dispositions.
We have called them our 7 Learning Powers and are known as
Creativity Champ (Purple)
Confidence Champ (Red)
Collaboration Champ (Blue)
Commitment Champ (Yellow)
Curiosity Champ (Green)
Craftsmanship Champ (White)
Communication Champ (Orange)
These dispositions are inherent in us all. They are not fixed at birth, or when we leave school; they can be developed by everyone regardless of “ability”, social background or age. In fact, ...there are NO limits to extending our learning power!
How empowering is that? How liberating? How exciting?
We can think of these dispositions as being like groups of "learning muscles". Just as we can build our physical muscles with the right kinds of exercise, so we can exercise our learning muscles to develop their strength and stamina. Each of these dispositions is made up of a number of learning behaviours, which are called capacities. Because the learning capacities are quite specific in nature, they can be individually trained, nurtured and exercised.