General
Send in your suggestions for resources to be added to this free resource bank. Email EMTAS@hants.gov.uk
Topic outline
Advice for parents
Use of first language at home (Webinar)
Community Language Classes
This is a list of community language classes currently available in Hampshire. EMTAS takes no responsibility for the classes themselves; parents are advised to make their own enquiries if they are interested in having their child attend.
Free e-books in English
Access to a range of graded readers, fiction and non-fiction, in English from Oxford OWL
Free access to Fluency Tutor (a reading development/assessment tool) from Texthelp
Online learning materials
National Literacy Trust – Parent Zone
Secondary resources for home learning with the English and Media Centre
Free home learning resources for Secondary students from the British Library Learning
Collaborative Learning Project - Collaborative Activities are ideal for learning at home. You collaborate to make up an activity. You collaborate to do the activity. Then you sanitise the activity and pass it on to another parent or carer. Also try this daily acivity.
BBC Bitesize – cross-phase and cross-curricular learning resources
BBC Programmes categorised as learning
Topmarks - resources for KS1 and KS2
The Confident Teacher – weekly themed activities and resources
Cambridge Assessment – offering their ResourcePlus suite, with videos and teaching resources, for free. Secondary phase
The Children's University of Manchester
Free resources listed by Bett Community Hub
Learn English Games (suggested by Wirral MEAS) from British Council
Bell Foundation - Resources for practitioners working with learners with EAL (including video series)
Resources for use at home (curated by Traveller Times)
More free resources for families (curated by DfE)
Oak National Academy - lots of free online lessons in many different subject areas
BBC - Get the news in your language
Culturally-themed resources
The National Trust - get some inspiration for activities to do on your own or with family... you won't be short of things to do at home or in the garden this spring.
The Royal Opera House - programme of free online content for the culturally curious at home
London Symphony Orchestra Discovery: Digital activities for schools, young people and families
‘A list of free, online, boredom-busting resources’ from Chatter Pack. Includes links to virtual tours of museums and galleries, links to concerts and much more
Distance learning from the Eden Project
Great Big Story - a collection of videos on a variety of themes (many featuring dialogue in a range of languages with translation and closed captions)TED Talks (many in different languages)Discovering Sacred Texts (British Library)Discovering Literature (British Library)Discovering Children's Books (British Library)Resources for learning about Poland
The Polish Cultural Institute has launched some resources for teaching and learning about Poland, Polish people and Polish-British connections. There is a variety of resources for assemblies, SMSC and various subjects, and they are suitable for primary and secondary pupils. Most of them can be adapted by teachers to suit their teaching context. There are also lots of ideas for teaching in the resources and plenty of links to other high-quality resources to learn more about Poland and Polish people
Ebook libraries
- Download eBooks, eAudiobooks and eMagazines for free from Hampshire libraries
- Ebooks and audiobooks for children currently available for free at World Book Online
- Kitabu Dual Language ebook Library
- International Childrens Digital Library
- https://worldstories.org.uk/ - a resource for KS2/3 (shared by Eileen Rawlins from Cove School, Farnborough) - a free offer
- The Fable Cottage - 17 stories in 6 languages currently
- Unite for literacy (non-fiction titles in English with audio in many languages) - worth checking content for cultural relevance
- Storybooks Canada - lots of languages and the books have audio too.