Home School Helper

Oxplore is a free educational website created by the University of Oxford, designed to engage 11-18 year olds with complex ideas across a...

Paignton Zoo's mission is to conserve species and habitats, and to inspire and empower people to help in the fight to protect...

This is a great set of free online tools (or 'experiments') made by Google, allowing kids - and adults - to explore music in a fun way....

As part of their offering to support Lockdown Learning, the BBC are showing their series of CBBC Celebrity Supply Teacher.

Each episode...

Along with Lockdown#3 in England came the return of Joe Wicks to support children at home with their PE again. But what about us parents...

This recent article from TechRadar lists a mixture of apps and games aimed at 5-11 year olds, with ten Android and iOS tablet games and a...

Do you have a budding artist in your family? Maybe they'd like to enter the Royal Academy of Arts Young Artist's Summer Show?

Who can enter?

Looking for something to keep children engaged with nature as you go on your daily walk?

Both Tree Tools for Schools and Wildlife Watch...

There are two Stargazing Events coming from Oxford, UK in the next few weeks - both online, both free, and both child-friendly!

This...

The Virtual School Library has been developed by the Oak National Academy in partnership with the National Literacy Trust.

Every week a...

If your children (or other members of your family) have a box of Lego hiding in their cupboard, its definitely time to re-ignite that...

Fitting in exercise around the school remote timetable can be challenging, especially if the designated lunchtime slot for one child does...

This is the internet at its best! People have just uploaded 10 mins of video of what they see out of their windows - all over the world....

We have used these activities with our kids before lockdown - and they have been great fun. Now online, you can choose from an even...

If you had fun reading Susie Dent's alternative Christmas dictionary article over Christmas with your family, you might want to take some...

Every Friday for the next 7 weeks the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth will be delivering free live lessons from their Aquarium via...

If you are looking for a treat for any Disney 'Frozen' fans, look no further. 

Disney Cruise Lines are showing their musical stage...

Twinkl are providing their Home Learning Hub accessible for free for the whole of January and beyond, with a range of downloadable and...

As announced last week, the BBC have put together a very comprehensive collection of resources for children in lockdown across the UK.

For my 13th birthday my mum bought me the album  The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars. This was my...

This is a great short article about routines and techniques that can help us deal with lockdown in winter in the UK and other parts of...

If you are looking for something to help boost your wellbeing during the crisis, take a look at Action for Happiness...

• You can download...

From my desk here in Devon I can see a lifeboat and have watched it speed out - full of volunteers - to save people in trouble at sea....

New from the BBC to support lockdown learning from 11th January is a combination of educational content from BBC Bitesize online, CBBC TV...

If you are back in lockdown in the UK - or anywhere else in the world, you may be looking for new ways to keep active and get fit in 2021.