Durham Gilesgate Primary School

Kepier Crescent, Gilesgate, Durham, DH1 1PH

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Educational Information

We will update this page regularly with lots of useful links to help our children learn at home so please check back with us regularly. We appreciate not everyone will have access to a printer and stationary so we will include a range of interactive and downloadable resources.

Please see our school videos page for our latest videos.

Please see our Providing remote education information (Jan 2021)

All subjects

Twinkl have the option to sign up for a free account. You can search resources by year group and subject making this a suitable resources from Nursery to Year 6. There are hundreds of different resources including Power Points, worksheets and interactive resources.

Scholastic have devised home learning activities. This free resource provides children with exciting articles and stories, videos, and fun learning challenges. Children can complete them anytime, in any order. They can work on their own or together with you and your family. The active learning journeys are available on any device and will provide your child with up to three hours worth of exciting learning experiences per day. They can go on virtual field trips, meet best-selling authors, or dig deep into a topic they love. Please note this is an American website and the ‘grades’ match up to our year groups as follows
K1- Reception
K2- Year 1
Grade 1- Year 2
Grade 2- Year 3
Grade 3- Year 4
Grade 4- Year 5
Grade 5- Year 6

Reading

Phonics Play have some free  resources on their website free. The resources include worksheets and games (some that are tablet friendly). The resources are grouped by phonics phase which are as follows;
Phase 1 – Nursery
Phases 2 & 3- Reception
Phases 4 & 5- Year 1
Phase 6- Year 2
Please note any children who are in years 3 or 4 who struggle with spelling or reading phase 6 would also be a useful recap.
Also Letters and Sounds is a useful website for phonics.

Oxford Owl have lots of free ebooks for children to read and enjoy. Search by age, level, book type and series (located at the top of the page). There is also a section with free games that the children will enjoy.

ELEVENSES WITH THE WORLD OF DAVID WALLIAMS allows you to listen to one of David Walliams’ World’s Worst Children stories, so sit down, take a break, and enjoy 20ish minutes of pure fun!

Adam Bushnell is a local author and a brilliant story teller and has his own YouTube channel. We’ve always wanted to work with him in school but he’s always fully booked! We’re sure our children will love listening to his stories.

This a a lovely book that explains the Coronovirus to children and hopefully answers some of their questions.

An excellent resource on how to use shared reading with your child to develop their language and communication and to boost their reading skills.

Spelling

For spelling the school have signed up to Spelling Shed and the children from Years 1-6 have logins. The ‘stages’ on the game correspond to your child’s year group (eg. stage 1-year 1). The children play through the games to build up their shed score and they can choose the degree of difficultly from easy to extreme. The children will be set weekly assignments so keep an eye out for those.

Maths

Times Table Rock Stars is a learning platform that we use for pupils in years 1-6 and all the children in these years have logins. The children are leveled by the automatic training mode. The garage section gives the children tables aimed at their ability level whilst the studio tests their speed with all tables. We have been working really hard as a school to move up the leader board of our local schools by upping our whole school studio speed! The children who have Times Table Rockstars logins will be set sessions on a weekly basis.

Top Marks Maths have lots of online games. Select your child’s age from the top menu bar and then select a category from the box at the top of the page. There are 100s of games to choose from to keep the children busy!

Join White Rose Maths for a Maths lesson each day!
⭐ Choose your year group
⭐ Watch the video
⭐ Try the questions
We use White Rose Maths in school to support the children’s learning. In these home learning lessons all have a teaching video and even if you can’t print the questions out your child can still have a go and verbally discuss their answers.

Computing

The government have released updated guidance relating to keeping children safe online. In light of many children spending more time online during this time.

Guidance for parents and carers: keeping children safe online

We have updated our information for parents and carers to include a section on keeping children safe online. It provides links to online resources that will help support parents and carers in keeping their children safe online.

Full details can be found in section 6.3 of the guidance for parents and carers on the closure of educational settings:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/closure-of-educational-settings-information-for-parents-and-carers 

PE

The Body Coach has lots of videos on his YouTube channel. They are aimed at children of all ages and even adults too! The aim is to get the nation’s children and parents feeling happier for 30  minutes and beyond each day.

Our School Sports Partnership are updating their website with home learning resources. There are fitness videos, online competitions and PDF documents showing children’s circuit training.

Music

Durham Music Service have set up their own YouTube channel. They have short musical learning videos for your children suitable for both in and out of school. To find out more information please click the Durham Music service link. 

Mental Health

The NSPCC have created a new webpage with information and advice for parents/carers who are worried a child or young person may be struggling with their mental health or has anxiety about Coronavirus. The webpage includes information on: talking about feelings and worries; keeping in touch and balancing screen time; ways to create structure and routine; and helping to give children a sense of control.

CAMHS have pooled together some really useful resources made by professionals to help any children who are struggling with their emotions and feelings at this time. You can find these here. 

Our Classes

  • Nursery
  • Reception/Year 1
  • Year 1/Year 2
  • Year 3 
  • Year 4
  • Year 5
  • Year 6

 

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  • School Office
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    • Healthy Eating
  • Childcare Provision
  • Online Safety
  • Sport @ Durham Gilesgate
  • Positive Futures Adviser
  • Useful Links

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Durham

DH1 1PH

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