Forces Children's Education

There are a number of resources available to help parents with supporting learning and creativity at home, below are just some of them.

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Support for parents

Resource	Site address
National Parent Forum Scotland: has produced some Educational Resources for Parents and Families	www.npfs.org.uk
Parentline Scotland: a free helpline, email and web-chat service from Children 1st and Edinburgh Together offering support for parents and carers. Tel: 08000 28 22 33	www.children1st.org.uk
Parentzone Education Scotland is a national body for supporting quality and improvement in learning and teaching, working in partnership with Scottish Government and various partner groups to develop information and advice about how parents can get further involved in their child’s learning.	www.education.gov.scot
Glow Access to Glow is restricted to learners and educators to ensure that it is a safe online environment. However, several resources are provided to help keep parents informed about their children’s learning.	glowconnect.org.uk
Parent Club Scotland The Scottish Government’s advice and support service to parents and families. A wide range of advice, hints and tips on social distancing, health information as well as learning at home.	www.parentclub.scot
Enquire Information and advice and resources for parents and families of children with additional support needs.	enquire.org.uk

Partners & Armed Forces support

Resource	Site address
Royal Caledonian Education Trust (RCET) Scotland’s Armed Forces Children’s charity, committed to giving Armed Forces children every opportunity to achieve and thrive	www.rcet.org.uk
Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust details on emergency funds available and the launch of programmes to support the Armed Forces Community	www.covenantfund.org.uk
Naval Families Federation Information for Royal Navy and Royal Marines families during the coronavirus outbreak.	Covid-19 updates, Useful Resources
Army Families Federation (AFF) Information for Army families during the coronavirus outbreak.	covid-19 – education, Chief of Defence – letter to families
RAF Families Federation Information for RAF families during the coronavirus outbreak.	Coronavirus: education support, COVID-19 advice for parents of children in UK Boarding Schools

Mental health and wellbeing

Resource	Site address
Childline help and advice on a wide range of issues available by telephone, online chat, email or forum support FREE Helpline 0800 1111	www.childline.org.uk
Penumbra is one of Scotland’s largest mental health charities. They support around 1800 adults and young people every week and employ 400 staff across Scotland. Their website has a dedicated COVID Hub page, that includes resources for Keeping Well	www.penumbra.org.uk/coronavirus
Young Scot have just launched an initiative for young people to submit any questions directly to the First Minister to answer on Covid-19 – and then they will be hosting and Q&A session.	membership.young.scot
Parentline Scotland Free helpline from Children 1st, email and web-chat service offering advice and support for parents and carers. Available Mon-Fri 9am-9pm, Sat 9am-12pm tel: 0800028 22 33	www.children1st.org.uk

At-home education resources

Resource	Site address
Home Learning Site a wide range of resources available are across several different curricular areas and in line with Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence	sites.google.com/homelearningsite
DEKKO Comics Over 140 educational comic stories to help you with your schoolwork. Dekko Comics teach lessons through fun and very whacky comic stories	dekkocomics.com
Reading Force Keeping forces families close and connected through shared stories	www.readingforce.org.uk
BBC Bitesize has videos and interactive lessons for all age groups and subject areas	www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
BBC Scotland has a range of educational programmes each weekday	www.bbc.co.uk
Twinkl home learning support on a range of subjects for ages 3-5, 5-7 and 7-11	www.twinkl.co.uk
Spelling City has online spelling and vocabulary games that help children explore spelling, phonics and aspects of writing. Printable resources are also available	www.spellingcity.com
The Literacy Shed has a wide range of films and visual resources and your child can choose a genre that meets their individual interests, such as adventure, history, myths and legends, and fun. Each short film is accompanied with discussion questions and suggested follow-up activities	www.edshed.com
Topmarks has a variety of literacy-based learning games for 3-11-year olds, including letters, sounds, punctuation, spelling, grammar and much more that can reinforce the learning set by your child’s teacher.	www.topmarks.co.uk
Authorfy have a 10-minute writing and illustration challenges	www.authorfy.com/10minutechallenges
World of David Walliams for his reading Audio Elevenses	www.worldofdavidwalliams.com
Story Time for Home Time for end of day reading	youtube.com/james_mayhew

Numeracy and maths

Resource	Site address
Mathsfactor website with lots of numeracy support	www.themathsfactor.com
Khan Academy has videos and interactive courses for almost every maths topic imaginable	www.khanacademy.org/math
Corbett Maths has video tutorials and worksheets on many topics	corbettmaths.com/contents

Social subjects

Resource	Site address
BBC Newsround is a good resource for social subjects and current affairs written for children to understand	www.bbc.co.uk/newsround
History Hit podcast with Dan Snow	tv.historyhit.com

Science

Resource	Site address
Steve Backshall YouTube channel has lots on science and wildlife	youtube.com/SteveBackshall
Science Show Bob YouTube channel goes live from Glasgow Science Centre	youtube.com/scienceshowbob

Music and Art

Resource	Site address
Myleene’s Music Klass YouTube channel with regular videos	youtube.com/MyleenesMusicKlass
The Primary Art Class with videos and resources on Facebook	www.facebook.com/Theprimaryartclass/

Languages

Resource	Site address
Virtually There modern languages tv programme	bbc.co.uk
Duolingo mobile app with game-style learning	www.duolingo.com