Remote Learning

Family Support Services

https://hackney.gov.uk/find-support-services  Interactive map for families - including food, finances (local food banks)

https://hackney.gov.uk/coronavirus Information for Hackney residents and can also sign up to newsletter and pick which topics you want information on (housing, benefits, what’s on, jobs)

Food Support

These links have been grouped by age category to make it easier for you to find age-appropriate information for your child/ the child you’re supporting.

Self-Isolating

• Ehrenreich-May has produced a Vimeo on dealing with strong emotions when self-isolating with children
• BBC Bitesize – Advice on learning at home
• BBC Bitesize also has a range of home education activities
• 10 indoor activities for children if self-isolating

Resources for parents/ carers explaining COVID-19

• UNICEF’s 8 quick tips for talking to children about COVID-19
• The Flourishing Families Clinic (at the University of Sussex and Sussex Partnership NHS Trust) has produced some tips and advice on how to talk to your child about their COVID-19 anxieties
• The National Association of School Psychologists have produced a resource for parents for talking to children about COVID-19 anxieties
• Wandering Minds of a Psychologist explains why it is important to talk to children about COVID-19 and provides concrete examples of things to say/ questions to ask
• The Guardian – Advice on both how to talk to your child about COVID-19, and what to cover

Information for parents and carers on online safety

• Safety Net Kids – This resource has some really clear messages for children to help them stay safe online during social distancing
• NSPCC – This resource has some helpful information for parents, carers and professionals about online safety

For school aged children

• BBC’s Newsround has a COVID-19 website featuring a range of stories and videos on the outbreak
  These include:
• Facts and myth-busting
• Newsround advice on how to manage worries about COVID-19 

For older young people/ adults  

• The World Health Organisation has released this video containing facts about COVID-19 and ways in which the spread can be prevented
• The Centre for Disease Control has produced a 1 page COVID-19 fact sheet
• MQ: Transforming Mental Health has produced a resource list around Coronavirus (COVID-19) and your mental healt

Resources for children and young people with specific needs

• • Additude has published some advice for parents of children with ADHD
  • Anna Kennedy Online has provided some advice for parents of children with ASC
  • Advice for reducing the impact of routine disruption for those with ASC
  • Social story about COVID-19
  • The international OCD foundation has published advice for parents of youth with OCD
  • Mencap easy-read 

These are resources for Staff:

Resources for those working with children

• The National Association of School Psychologists has a resource preparing mental health professionals in schools for infectious disease epidemics and outbreaks
• UNICEF has published advice for teachers
• The Centre for Disease Control – General principles for parents, teachers and any other professionals working with children
• The British Psychological Society have published some tips talking to children about COVID-19 concerns. It refers to “your child” but the tips and strategies are the same for any adults working with children, not just parents

Videos and Podcasts

• BBC Radio 4’s Women’s Hour: How to talk to children about COVID-19
• This Vimeo provides tips and advice about how to talk to your child about natural disasters and news events
• Ehrenreich-May is a child psychologists and has produced a Vimeo outlining three tips for talking to your child about COVID-19
• The Child’s Mind Institute has published a video providing advice on talking to children about COVID-19

Resources for adults

• The University of Oxford’s Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma has shared useful mental health advice for adults.
• OCD-UK have published advice on managing OCD symptoms with COVID-19 
• OCD-UK have published advice on managing OCD symptoms with COVID-19 
• Rethink have published general guidelines on managing mental health during the COVID-19 outbrea

For younger children

• • Nanogirl Live has produced a couple of videos explaining COVID-19 and why it is important to wash our hands/ sneeze and cough into our elbows
  • This comic strip provides a visual explanation of the COVID-19 outbreak and what we can do to stop its spread

You can find lots more resources and useful links to supporting children, young people and parents with their mental health and wellbeing in the Parents Resources page on our website here.

Mental health & emotional support

School closure means that students are more likely to be spending a lot more time online, you can find lots of guidance and information on keeping your child safe online here.

Phe Home Office published guidance for parents and carers to keep children safe online. This covers a range of online harms including radicalisation.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-keeping-children-safe-online/coronavirus-covid-19-support-for-parents-and-carers-to-keep-children-safe-online

Online Safety Guidance for parents and students

Online learning resources from HM Government (primary & secondary)

BBC Bitesize​

BBC Bitesize are providing 20 minute daily lessons for all year groups on a wide variety of subjects.

Creative Isolation is a fantastic website with links to a wide variety of home based, creative ways to support mental health and entertain the whole family.

https://www.marchnetwork.org/creative-isolation

Free Children's Classics eBooks & Audiobooks
https://www.researchify.co.uk/audiobooks.html
 
Find Great Literature Online for Free https://readgreatliterature.com/how-to-find-great-literature-online-for-free/

Storyline Online
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Viola Davis, Chris Pine, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, James Earl Jones, Betty White and dozens more.
https://www.storylineonline.net/

Virtual Story-times happening now!
Josh Gad's Gad Book Club - the man who contains the voice of Olaf in Frozen has been live-streaming himself reading picturebooks on his twitter account (https://twitter.com/joshgad). You can find the videos of past performances under the hashtag #GadBookClub

Lunch Doodles with Mo Williams, the creator of the Pigeon and Elephant & Piggie has been live-streaming doodle workshops at 1pm ET every weekday, you can catch up with his videos here.

Museums Online

• Visit Museums & Art Galleries from home: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner?hl=en
• Imperial War Museum Online: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections
• London Transport Museum Online: https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online
• National Army Museum: https://collection.nam.ac.uk/
• Science Museum:https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/
• V&A Museum: https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections?type=featured
• Puppetry Workshops: https://puppet.org/center-for-puppetry-arts-home/
• National Literacy Trust Family Zone https://literacytrust.org.uk/family-zone/
• RIBA Learning Resources: https://www.architecture.com/education-cpd-and-careers/learning/riba-national-schools-programme/learning-resources

 
Ballet & Opera
The Royal Opera House will be bringing the drama to your home, the theatre will offer a free schedule of both opera and ballet broadcasts so audiences can access world-class performances right at their fingertips.
Full details: https://secretldn.com/royal-opera-house-free-performances/

Music
 
TogetherAtHome Concerts 
Musicians from John Legend to Chris Martin have been recording themselves playing concerts in their homes. You can catch up on these concerts here:https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=togetherathome
 
Dropkick Murphys Streaming Up from Boston
The Dropkick Murphys broadcast their annual Saint Patrick's Day concert live online from an empty studio. The full concert can be watched online here: https://youtu.be/5j06g0TE_Ao
 
Full-length Performances to Stream Online for Free
https://allarts.org/2020/03/5-full-length-performances-available-to-stream-for-free/
 

Things to do if your school library is closed, by Sarah Pavey: https://slgtalkingbooks.com/2020/03/23/things-to-do-if-your-school-library-is-closed/

More resources for students studying at home.

Blockly https://blockly.games

Learn computer programming skills - fun and free.

https://scratch.mit.edu/explore/projects/games/

Creative computer programming

Ted Ed https://ed.ted.com All sorts of engaging educational videos

National Geographic Kids https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/ Activities and quizzes for younger kids.

Duolingo https://www.duolingo.com Learn languages for free. Web or app.

Mystery Science https://mysteryscience.com Free science lessons

The Kids Should See This https://thekidshouldseethis.com Wide range of cool educational videos

Crash Course https://thecrashcourse.com You Tube videos on many subjects

Crest Awards https://www.crestawards.org Science awards you can complete from home.

iDEA Awards https://idea.org.uk Digital enterprise award scheme you can complete online.

Paw Print Badges https://www.pawprintbadges.co.uk Free challenge packs and other downloads. Many activities can be completed indoors. Badges cost but are optional.

Tinkercad https://www.tinkercad.com All kinds of making.

Nature Detectives https://naturedetectives.woodlandtrust.org.uk/naturedetect…/ A lot of these can be done in a garden, or if you can get to a remote forest location!

British Council https://www.britishcouncil.org/school-resources/find Resources for English language learning

Big History Project https://www.bighistoryproject.com/home Aimed at Secondary age. Multi disciplinary activities.

Geography Games https://world-geography-games.com/world.html Geography gaming!

The Artful Parent https://www.facebook.com/artfulparent/ Good, free art activities