If you are a parent or carer, we hope you will find the web links and downloadable documents below useful.
COMMUNITY INFORMATION
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Action For Children – Action for Children supports and speaks out for the UK’s most vulnerable and neglected children and young people.
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Birmingham City Council – Links to services for schools page
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Birmingham Healthy Minds – We provide a wide range of inpatient, community and specialist mental health services.
- Birmingham Settlement – Birmingham Settlement is here to help people lead happy fulfilling lives. Whether it is financial difficulty, isolation or social exclusion we offer independent guidance and support.
- Citizens Advice – Citizens Advice provides free, confidential and independent advice to help people overcome their problems.
- Department for Education – Articles and advice for children and young people
- Domestic abuse counselling service for those in need
- Housing advice from Shelter – Expert advice to help you deal with your housing problems.
- National Crime Agency – The National Crime Agency (NCA) leads UK law enforcement’s fight to cut serious and organised crime.
- New Heights – A charity run drop in cafe which provides help and advice to the Kingstanding community.
- Parent View – This is an online facility that allows you to give your views about your child’s school at any time during the school year.
- Parent Zone – An organisation making the internet work for families.
- Pause – Pause is our city centre drop-in service, based in Digbeth. We also run a weekly pop-up Pause in Aston.
- School Nurses – The school health advisory service aim to promote and support the health and wellbeing of all school aged children.
- Women’s Aid – Birmingham and Solihull Women’s Aid supports women and children affected by domestic violence, rape and sexual assault. We believe that women and children have the right to live free from violence, abuse and fear.
ONLINE LEARNING RESOURCES
- Oxford Owl – Free website with 250 FREE tablet-friendly eBooks and activities to help you support children’s learning.
- Phonics Play – An interactive website for children and parents.
- Primary Homework Help – This has fantastic interactive resources across a range of subjects.
- Star Fall – Starfall.com opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to teach children to read with phonics.
- Teachers Pet – Online learning.
- Teach Starter – Classroom printables, activities and worksheets.
- Top Marks – Website to support phonics and reading
- T.T.S. – A curriculum-focused independent learning resource with over 40 home learning activities all planned and all prepared.
- Twinkl – School Closure Home Learning resource packs
- Year 2 – Time O’clock, Half Past, Quarter Past and Quarter To (link to video on time (o’clock and half past) – Why don’t you make your own clock and have a go at telling the time to o’clock and half past using just the hour hand. Once you are confident with that, have a go at telling the time to quarter past and quarter to. Once you have tried it using just the hour hand, bring in the minute hand too.
- Years 1-6 Classroom Secrets – Learning video clips.
- Years 1-6 Happy Learning English – This playlist from Happy Learning English has some times tables songs, as well as videos about shapes and measurements.