Home Learning

Please click on the links below for ideas and activities that you can do at home with your child:

• Advice on Home Learning

            o   Reading                   

                    •  Pre-Reading Skills

                    • Emergent Reading Skills

 Please click on the link here to download the 'Lost and Found' story with audio.  

Collins Hub Website - please click on link below:  Home - Collins Hub

Reading at Home                                                            

You can access e-books on-line through the Collins Big Cat eBook Library.

Collins e-books are levelled books, set by your child's class teacher, designed to help them develop their reading skills and to encourage a love of reading.

Please watch this short video link to see how to access the books:  please click here

Once you have watched the video, use this link to get into the library:   https://www.collinshub.co.uk/login/    

If you need a reminder of your child's individual username and password, please contact the school office.

        o   Writing

             • Guidance and ideas on developing mark-making

Home Learning Activities

         o   Engagement and participation activities for sensory learners

                            • Household items colour matching (sensory)          

                            • Mark-making with gel (sensory)          

                            • Personal sensory tray (sensory)         

                            • Tea-time play (sensory) 

                       • Cups and straws 1 to 1 (sensory) 

                            • Home-made shaker (sensory)   

                            • Home-made shape sorter (sensory)

                       • Turn taking skittles (sensory)

        o   Activities to develop skills and knowledge for pre-NC learners

                            • Colour labelling (pre-NC)           

                            • Sock pairing (pre-NC)        

                            • Special interest mark-making (pre-NC)          

                            • Target Ball Game (pre-NC)

                             • Grocery Tower (pre-NC)

                             • Home-made shaker (pre-NC)  

                             • How many cups capacity (pre-NC)

                             • Positional language - in on under (pre-NC)

                             • Sorting by type (pre-NC)

             o   Activities for children working at lower NC levels and advice for parents/carers

                             • Coin recognition (Lower KS1)         

                             • Family writing (Lower KS1)           

                             • Home-made Puzzle (Lower KS1)         

                             • Target Ball Game (Lower KS1)

                             • Alphabet Toys (Lower KS1)     

                             • Build the same - brick activity (Lower KS1)      

                             • Guess capacity (Lower KS1)              

                             • Positional language (Lower KS1)        

                             • Sock Pairing (Lower KS1)