With many people now having to teach children at home, we’d like to share a list of all the free resources that are available to make the task a little bit easier and keep young people motivated during this time.
Future First Resources
Future First will be uploading our own free resources regularly.
- Skills & Strengths activity – which enables young people to identify the skills shown by alumni in their working life and encourages them to reflect on their own skills and strengths.
- Pathways activity – to encourage young people to reflect on the different pathways alumni take after leaving schools.
- Support networks and empathy – helps students learn about the importance of empathy, who is in their support network, and how to ensure they are listening ‘actively’ when supporting others.
- Balancing your pressures with safe spaces – allows students to understand how supporting their wellbeing can enable them to cope with their school work and other pressures more effectively.
- Hobbies and interests – finding your fit – helps students design a weekly framework for activities, using their time at home to develop skills and find hobbies that they excel at and enjoy.
- Applying flexibility, perseverance and problem solving – students learn about skills that are key to being resilient, and how to use them.
- Work experience profiles – We have collaborated with alumni across our network to gather advice and guidance on how students can gain some crucial work experience whilst staying at home.
- Work experience in the third sector – A virtual work experience week to give an insight into working at a charity like Future First. Activities help students build on the skills and experience they’d need for many careers, not just the charity sector.
- Primary: What is resilience? – helps primary pupils learn about resilience and the different ways for improving it.
- Primary: Transitions – helps primary pupils explore the transitions happening in their life and strategies to manage these.
- Primary: World of work – encourages your pupils to learn more about the world of work through interviewing an adult at home about their pathway, skills and experiences.
Primary Resources
- Teachers’ Club are offering free access to their website full of curriculum-linked teaching resources and competitions for Key Stages 1 and 2 pupils.
- Myleene Klass is hosting several online classes a week including an interactive music class on Monday mornings at 10am.
- Strictly’s Oti Mabuse is hosting children’s dance classes on her YouTube channel at 11:30am with a version for parents at 7:30pm.
- Carol Vorderman’s ‘The Maths Factor’ has waived its £2 joining fee and is now free for all to use.
- Twinkl have created home learning and school closure packs for teachers, parents and home educators to use for free.
- Classroom Secrets have created free resource packs for Key Stages 1 and 2 to help students work from home.
- Natwest have a programme called ‘Money Sense’ for parents and guardians to teach children about finances.
- Theo Cooks is hosting cookalong classes for kids every Monday and Wednesday at 4pm.
- Steve Backshall is hosting weekly wildlife Q&A which you can watch on his YouTube Channel.
- The Anne Frank Trust has free home based learning resources for Primary school pupils to learn about prejudice and discrimination.
- Rosetta Stone are offering 3 months of free access to their website so your children can learn a language of their choice.
- The Robin Hood Multi Academy Trust have created a Learning Project for Parents to teach their children from home.
- PhonicsPlay have waived their joining fee and our offering their resources for free so that parents and guardians can help develop their children’s reading skills.
- Maddie Moate is hosting science sessions every weekday at 11am. You can watch them on her YouTube channel.
- BBC Bitesize has plenty of educational activities and games for primary school children across the UK.
Secondary Resources
- The Brilliant Club have a website full of free resources with masterclasses on a range of topics, study skills sessions and workbooks for independent learning.
- Eton College are offering year 11 and 13 pupils free access to their online learning platform, which is called EtonX.
- Twinkl have created home learning and school closure packs for teachers, parents and home educators to use for free.
- Natwest have a programme called ‘Money Sense’ for parents and guardians to teach children about finances.
- Steve Backshall is hosting a weekly wildlife Q&A which you can watch on his YouTube Channel.
- eParenting have compiled a list of free revision resources for ages 11 and up.
- Rosetta Stone are offering 3 months of free access to their website so your children can learn a language of their choice.
- BBC Bitesize have educational resources for secondary school pupils including Key Stage 3, GCSE and Careers activities. From 20 April, you’ll be able to access regular daily lessons in English and Maths, as well as other core subjects.
- The Department for Education have published their own guidance and list of online education resources for home education.
- Education charity ASDAN have free resources to support home learning and education.
Entertainment
- David Walliams is releasing one free audio book every day for 30 days to keep everyone entertained.
- Joe Wicks is doing live P.E lessons every Monday to Friday at 9am until schools are reopened. You can watch all his P.E lessons so far on his YouTube channel.
- The Scouts have a website called ‘The Great Indoors’ with lots of ideas for indoor activities.
- Audible have released a collection of audio books for free and will continue to do so for as long as schools are closed.
If you have any to add to the list, please email info@futurefirst.org.uk