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Healthy sleep routines can benefit the whole family The NHS report that a solid night’s sleep is essential for a long and healthy life, with benefits to mood, weight management and lowering the risk of serious medical conditions such as heart disease and diabetes.  With so much uncertainty and disruption due to COVID-19, it may not be…

This recipe app from Change4Life provides a searchable database of meals designed to feed a family of 4 for around £5.  It provides easy to follow instructions for parents who are short on time and aims to provide ‘tasty, healthier meals the whole family will love’.  The app benefits include:          …

Check our weekly bulletin for updates from teachers, which include encouraging messages and useful information that you can refer to during the week ahead. Swanlea’s 4th Weekly Bulletin

This Girl Can have teamed up with Disney to create fun dance-along routines designed to enable the whole family to keep fit together.  Routines include those from the Jungle Book, Moana and the Little Mermaid.  Additional Disney Dance routines, indoor games and physical activities can be found on the Change4Life Website. https://www.thisgirlcan.co.uk/activities/disney-workouts/    

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…