Learning Resources
At Vaughan, we like to make your learning fun! There are a number of online resources which students have access to which enables them to extend their learning outside the classroom.
Home Learning
If you have any questions regarding logging into the websites provided for home learning please email homelearning@vaughan.harrow.sch.uk with your child's name and class in the subject box and your query. A member of staff will get back to you as soon as they can. In the meantime please continue to use the many free websites that are posted under our Curriculum tab under Learning Resources.
Physical Education
GoNoodle engages 14 million kids every month with movement and mindfulness videos created by child development experts. Available for free at school, home, and everywhere kids are!
Fun curriculum linked resources to get your class moving while they learn
Early Years Resources
Here you will find lots of information and links to useful resources to explain various aspects of the UK school curriculum, and how you can help your child to learn without causing confusion.
Good for phase 2 blending and segmenting. You can also search different series of alphablocks on youtube to find the relevant digraphs that your child has been learning in phase 3.
This is a great website with online books and activities to do after reading.
This is a great website for children to watch programmes at different levels and from a range of Maths Topics.
General Resources
KS1 Bitesize
Key Stage 1 is a phase of primary education for pupils aged 5 to 7 in England, or 6 to 8 in Northern Ireland.
Key Stage 2 is a phase of primary education for pupils aged 7 to 11 in England and Wales.
Award winning, safe and secure learning resources to help learners improve effectiveness.
Maths Resources
MyMaths provides complete curriculum coverage and offers a wealth of resources to develop students confidence and fluency in maths.
Provides easy to use videos to help your child apply their mathematical understanding at home.
Times Tables Rock Stars is a carefully sequenced programme of daily times tables practice.
This is a great tool where you can practice your times tables under timed conditions using the times tables test simulator.
Numbots
For pupils in Reception to Year 2 to use efficient mental calculation strategies
Reading Resources
Everything you need to know about children's books and authors.
Words for Life is the National Literacy Trust’s website for parents. Visit our main website for literacy news, support for schools and more information about our work.
Listen to the world's best poetry read out loud.
Writing Resources
English educational kids games and activities to teach your child, spelling, reading, alphabetical order and grammar with these English learning games.
This resource is closely mapped to the National Curriculum appendix for vocabulary, punctuation and grammar, with every item in the appendix scripted into a short, clear video to demonstrate what the term means and how it can be applied to every day situations.
Science Resources
Science games for children, interactive resources and activities to aid learning science facts about animals, materials, sound, water cycle, your body and the weather.
Explore the science museum collection, complete brain-teasing puzzles or learn about science with our range of science games and apps.
The St Mary’s University Primary Science Team has been working with the Primary Science Teaching Trust (PSTT) and Spectrum Drama on a project called Science at Work. This project has created opportunities to meet past and present scientists, and to learn more about people whose work involves using science.
Explorify activities during science week to bring science into sport. Have a look at their latest activities using their website.