Highwoods Academy
Remote Learning & Office 365
Remote Learning
Our remote learning is delivered through Microsoft Teams. This is part of Microsoft Office – your children also have access to Word, PowerPoint etc.
Your child's username and password will have been provided to you.
Your child's username takes the form of an Empowering Minds email address - however with due regard to safeguarding, the email facility has been disabled.
Username: forename.surname@EmpoweringMindsMAT.uk
Password: this has been sent to you - should you have forgotten / lost your child's password please contact Mr Rhodes who will be able to provide it.
Click on the document link below - How to Access Microsoft Office / Teams
Click on the document link below - How to Access Microsoft Office / Teams using a Playstation or Xbox console
Websites and apps we use to provide remote activities
https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects-by-key-stage
Oak National Academy provides free video lessons, slides and worksheets to support teachers and pupils to keep learning.
Created by teachers in response to coronavirus, the resources are freely available, to complement schools’ own teaching. Lessons cover a broad range of subjects, from reception to year 11. There are no sign-ups or logins required.
While parents and carers may find the lessons and resources a useful part of supporting their child’s learning, they should follow the advice of class teachers.
Where appropriate parents may want to use Oak's resources to help their children recap, revise or catch up on learning from their school.
Each lesson takes around an hour for a pupil to complete. There is a pre-recorded video from a teacher, with slides, as well as quizzes, worksheets and creative activities.
Home Learning https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/
Guidance for Parents / Carers https://whiterosemaths.com/for-parents/
White Rose Maths is a company founded within a high-performing, Halifax-based school Trust. Our work with teachers, practitioners, pupils, parents and carers is all aimed at one thing: helping every child and young person to understand, enjoy and succeed in maths. We do this by developing understanding. By truly understanding each maths concept and by mastering learning one step at a time, EVERYONE CAN DO MATHS: EVERYONE CAN!
The White Rose Maths ‘schemes of learning’ are hugely popular with schools in the UK and in many other countries, too. We also produce many other resources to help increase both fun and success in maths. Rooted in globally respected research, our resources are written by experienced, practising teachers and are available for pupils from nursery and primary years and through secondary school to GCSE.
Times Tables Rock Stars
When selecting the school make sure you select
Highwoods Academy, Mexborough S64 9ES
(not Highwoods Primary School - otherwise your login won't work!)
Your teacher has provided you with your login details - if you've forgotten them please ask Mr Rhodes to reset them.
Times Tables Rock Stars is a carefully sequenced programme of daily times tables practice.
Each week concentrates on a different times table, with a recommended consolidation week for rehearsing the tables that have recently been practised every third week or so.
This format has very successfully boosted times tables recall speed for hundreds of thousands of pupils over the last 8 years in over 16,000 schools - both primary and secondary - worldwide.
Numbots
When selecting the school make sure you select
Highwoods Academy, Mexborough S64 9ES
(not Highwoods Primary School - otherwise your login won't work!)
Your teacher has provided you with your login details - if you've forgotten them please ask Mr Rhodes to reset them.
NumBots adopts the best teaching practises to take children from counting on their fingers, to adding and subtracting two digit numbers.
The programme compliments what your child is learning in school and focusses on securing any gaps in their knowledge, before moving them onto the next challenge. This self paced journey improves children’s confidence and means they are fully prepared to tackle each new topic.
We recommend playing for at least 3 minutes a day, 4 or 5 days a week. NumBots is available to play via our website or mobile app, so your child will be able to learn maths at home or on-the-go, whenever suits your family.
https://login.mathletics.com
Bring the love of learning home with the most engaging online mathematics program in the world.
By blending intrinsic and extrinsic motivations and rewards, and using best-practice theories of gamified learning, Mathletics keeps students engaged with maths. With fresh activities, challenges and regularly updated content, Mathletics always has something new to learn and fun to do.
