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Kids Country offers free home school solutions in light of Covid-19 challenge
Kids Country, the East of England Agricultural Society’s education initiative, has quickly adapted to the challenges that Covid-19 school closures have placed on parents, carers, teachers and children at home, with an exciting schedule of daily activities that can be accessed for free. These activities are also suitable for teachers to deliver to the children of key workers that are still in school. The programme includes Grow Your Own, Easter Chicks, Bees and Mini Beast themes for the first four weeks, and will be extended as long as the closures continue. Education manager, Sandra Lauridsen, said: “We are really aware that the school closures are placing a lot of
pressure on parents and carers to think of fun ways to educate at home in line with the National Curriculum, and at Kids Country we quickly decided to come up with a free plan of activities that can be done at home for little to no cost. We are very lucky to have strong relationships within the agricultural industry and many of the companies that we work with to deliver our normal events have kindly helped support these activities with their knowledge. We have postponed our own programme of events to the autumn term, but that doesn’t mean that children have to miss out now with our new online resources.” Sandra continued: “We are privileged to work with over 5,000 children in a typical school year, but we want
to reach even more with our online resource of activities, with everything from growing your own potatoes, to mini beast trails and making a bee bath. Without even realising, children will be learning about food, farming and the environment, and importantly, getting out into the fresh air, which we all know has essential benefits to mental and physical wellbeing.”
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Oxford University Press makes flagship education and home learning resources available for free to teachers, parents and children
Oxford University Press (OUP) has made many of its flagship educational and home learning resources available for free, in order to support teachers, parents and learners affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, both in the UK and internationally. OUP has brought together its free offering for home and school under the
umbrella of “Supporting you with learning anywhere”, with a new online portal where teachers, parents and learners can access resources that will hopefully make adapting to teaching and learning in new circumstances slightly easier. Support and free content are available through a number of OUP’s online educational platforms, including its award-winning websites Oxford Owl for School and Oxford Owl for Home. OUP is offering schools free access to MyMaths, the UK’s leading maths platform for secondary schools, until September, and is running a series of dedicated webinars for teachers to support them while they are using the site to teach remotely. International schools can also gain free access to MyiMaths for the same period. OUP has also launched a series of free webinars to support teachers teaching
remotely with its digital platforms, including Kerboodle, which is currently used by over 3 million students and teachers across a wide range of secondary subjects, including Modern Languages, Science, Maths, English and Geography. For parents of primary-aged children who are learning to read, more than 70
Read Write Inc Phonics eBooks are freely available on OUP’s flagship platforms for parents and teachers, Oxford Owl for Home and School, as well as practice sheets and parent information booklets. Ruth Miskin Training, the organisation behind one of the UK’s most popular phonics programmes, is also streaming three daily phonics lessons on YouTube, each available for 24 hours.
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Nursing students sign up to support the NHS
More than 200 nursing students from the University of Northampton have answered the government’s call to step up and help the health service by offering extra people hours to fight the coronavirus pandemic. 212 third and second year students from all four nursing fields have opted in to take Clinical Extended Placements. This means third year students in the final 6 months of their degree could
be in full-time clinical practice, supporting health colleagues during the pandemic (pending the outcome of their application). As they start over the next few weeks, there will be extra nursing hands in the workforce supporting and enabling their registered peers to care for more seriously ill patients. Final year students in the first 6 months of their year will spend 80% of
their time in clinical practice and 20% of their time in online academic study (which is the same for second year students). Usually, the clinical/academic split for second and third year nursing students is an equal 50/50. Although the locations of their Clinical Extended Placement are yet to be
confirmed, many have asked to work in Northamptonshire. This follows a move from the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) – the profession’s regulator – late last month to allow more flexibility for nursing and midwifery programmes. Donna Bray, Subject Lead for Nursing at the University of Northampton,
said: “This was a difficult decision for our students to make but we are living in difficult times. So, I am pleased see that our nursing cohorts have signed up on the double, bringing their energy and commitment to this ongoing battle. “University nursing lecturers will continue to teach and support them
wherever they are located and are rightly proud of the way all our students have responded to this national crisis.”
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