Category: 6th Form Resources

Do you fancy making some gorgeous art? Tate has put together a marbling photo-guide inspired by abstract paintings by German artist Gerhard Richter, who scraped paint across a canvas. Resources needed include paper, shaving foam, washable inks or food colouring and a ruler. This technique can be applied to hand prints, bookmarks, bunting… or anything…

The Public Examination 2020 document contains details about  regarding public exams for years 10, 11 & 13. Public Examination 2020

Celebrating Architecture has partnered with Open City to create an innovative online learning platform and they have launched a lockdown-friendly, virus-proof challenge that involves building the London skyline with materials you have at home. Junkitecture Challenge  This challenge will make you think like an architect and turn waste into a skyline. The activities are for children, parents,…

The This Girl Can campaign was launched in 2015 funded by lottery funding and Sport England.  Since then they have successfully persuaded nearly three million women to become more active!  The premise of This Girl Can is to celebrate active women no matter ‘how they do it, how they look or even how sweaty they…

Code.org has launched its Code Break program – a free, live weekly webcast where members of the Code.org team teach coding and computer science to children and adults. The team will also be setting weekly challenges for beginners, experienced coders and even students without computers. You can sign up to receive each week’s Code Break…

Primary Engineer and Ford of Britain have partnered with other engineering brands to launch two free online challenges designed to inspire the next generation of young engineers. The first is called the Leaders Award and asks children to submit ideas along the idea of: “If you were an engineer, what would you do?” The programme…

Rosetta Stone are allowing students to access their language learning website free of charge for three months. Children and young people can continue to expand their horizon by learning a new language. https://www.rosettastone.co.uk/lp/freeforkids/  

The #DailyMileAtHome will be producing weekly Challenges for schools, families, carers and children to use to encourage 15 minutes of jogging or running outside, in line with Government guidance.  Instructions from the UK government are very clear – they are allowing us to take exercise outdoors, once a day, as long as we can keep…

The Show Must Go Online are putting together weekly readings of the Complete Plays of Shakespeare by a global cast, in the order they were believed to have been written. They are using global casts, including professionals and amateurs, all of whom donate their time and talent freely to entertain, and make Shakespeare accessible. https://robmyles.co.uk/theshowmustgoonline/