Home Learning Environment
Welcome to our Home Learning Environment page, filled with resources and information to help our school community with learning from home. You can find links to all our learning portals, Year Group Workbooks, and many other activities and resources.
As of Monday 20th April, tasks will be set on our learning portals (linked below) weekly from 9am Monday morning and will be available until 6pm on Sunday. The workbooks below are a guide designed specifically for each year group with guidance per subject and email addresses for teachers. Paper copies of workbooks and tasks are available by contacting the school.
For any questions please click here to send a message to our Home Learning email.
Learning Portals
Please see below the links to the learning systems students can access from home as well as the guides on how to login.
Should you have trouble logging in, please contact main reception where you will be directed towards someone who can help.
SAM Learning:
SENECA Learning:
Pearson Active Learn:
Year Group Workbooks
Literacy and eBook Resources
Please see attached reading/literacy resources that students can access at home, as well as instructions on how to log-in to the school's eBook library.
All students have an individual username and password for this that they can access via their school email account.
The eLibrary has a vast number of books and audiobooks.
Student Email Guide
Activities/Resources
- Free Resources Available Online
- 40 Things to do with your Child at Home
- Thinkuknow Home Activities
- https://www.mathschase.com/
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
- Zumos 70 Day Wellbeing Through Mindfulness
- Oak National Academy
- Maths Round Up - Edition 1
- Bletchley Park Challenge - Caesar Wheel Guide
- Bitesize "How to avoid 'news anxiety'" post
- MATHS - Ratio KO
Careers Resources
All Year groups - Careers in Energy & Utilities:
https://mailchi.mp/successatschool/careers-in-energy-utilities
All Year group and parents:
To help parents and students studying from home, electronic versions of all of our Gatsby Subject Guides available free of charge.
Year 10:
Year 10 can read what are employability skills – this is to help the with future jobs.
Fast Tomato:
Children's Commission Coronavirus Guide
CyberFirst 2020 Summer Course
From CyberFirst:
"We are delighted to announce that a new timetable of CyberFirst student courses will be available on the 27th April at 10am and applications for places will be via The Smallpeice Trust website.
In light of the serious impact of the global Coronavirus pandemic and the uncertainty of when social distancing measures will be relaxed, we have taken the pragmatic step of moving our CyberFirst summer courses online. We intend to maintain instructor led lessons which registered students will join daily, via a log in. Each course will run as half day sessions over 10 days where the content will be delivered in our usual fun and interesting way. All of these courses will continue to be certified by SQA and the NCSC.
To attend one of these virtual courses you will require access to a computer and an internet connection. Students will be sent information in advance to help confirm they have all that is required for the course.
Rather than just focus on the theory behind cyber security, students will actually experience it. These free online courses are all carefully designed to bring out every student’s potential.
There are three different student course levels available, depending on the age group, click the links below to view course details and dates."
- CYBERFIRST DEFENDERS - Aimed at 14 to 15 year-olds offering an introduction to cyber security
- CYBERFIRST FUTURES - Aimed at 15 to 16 year-olds exploring advanced cyber security threats
Portsmouth Hive Hub
Year 11
The Southern Universities Network have worked together with colleges across Portsmouth to create a learning resource for Year 11 students starting college in September. This work will help prepare students for college and is available to view on this website:
https://www.sunoutreach.org/resource-category/flying-start-portsmouth/
Ms Panou-King has provided a handy guide to help students navigate the website.