Huge thank you to Leighanne Ferguson from the English team for this post!

Miss Ferguson has drawn together a list of things we can all do for free, and from home during the school closure and now ‘lock down.’  (She has included one section on local walking with a note about following the government advice.)

We look forward to hearing of your ‘staying home’ adventures!

Physical activity

 

• PE with Joe Wicks: daily 30 minute PE sessions designed for children and young people but open to everyone
• YMCA physical activities on demand

 

Online reading, writing and audiobooks

 

• Audible free audiobooks
• Story Pirates
• Wheelers – the school has signed up to this for students and staff, use your school login details to log in and borrow books or resources (login guidance here)
• Creative writing now – creative writing ideas and a free ebook if you sign up 

 

Virtual tours

 

• National Park Service
• 360 degrees views of cities and places
• Africam safari tours and livecams from African countries

 

Animal cams

• Great Horned Owl
• Eagle Cam

 

Zoos and aquarium

All of these zoos and aquariums have set up webcams so you can watch some or all of their animals online:

• Edinburg Zoo
• Marwell Zoo
• Dublin Zoo
• San Diego Zoo
• Houston Zoo
• Living Coast penguins
• Paignton Zoo
• Smithsonian
• Chattanooga Zoo
• Clearwater Marine Aquarium
• Reid Park Zoo
• Kanzas City Zoo
• Monterey Bay Aquarium
• Atlanta Zoo
• Baltimore Aquarium and Virtual Tour
• Washington Aquarium
• Alaska Zoo
• Vancouver Aquarium

 

Art galleries

• Google Arts and Culture
• Pinacoteca di Brera art gallery (Milan)
• Uffizi Gallery (Florence)
• Prado (Madrid)
• Louvre (Paris)
• The Met (New York)
• Tate Modern (London)
• VanGogh Museum (Amsterdam)
• National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Korea)
• Rijksmuseum (Netherlands)
• Guggenheim (New York)

 

Museums

• Vatican Museum (Rome)
• Athens Archaeology Museum (Athens)
• British Museum (London)

• The Hermitage (St Petersburg)
• Musee d’Orsay (Paris)
• Natural History Museum (London)
• Paris Museum Collections
• National Air & Space Museum (Smithsonian)
• Field Museum (Chicago)

 

Special sites

• Eiffel Tower
• Great Pyramids of Egypt
• Great Wall of China 360 and Virtual tour
• Anne Frank House Virtual Tour
• Buckingham Palace
• Soon Doong Cave (Vietnam)
• Ellis Island New York

 

Courses

• Ancient Rome Virtual Tour with Lessons
• Disney Imagineering in a Box: a 2-hour course showing you how Disney Imagineers develop their skills

 

Education and interest

 

STEM

• Science with Bill Nye – experiments you can do at home
• Discovery science virtual field trip
• Arizona Science Centre science from home
• Liberty Science Center (New Jersey)
• Marine Traffic Around the World
• NASA Mission Operations Room and NASA image library

 

Walks and local activities

 

(24/03/20) The Government advice is that you can go out for one form of exercise a day to maintain your physical and mental well-being, but in your household group only, and make sure to stay 2 meters away from everyone around you. So here are some ideas: 

• RainbowTrail UK or Chasetherainbow Gosport and Fareham: basically, paint or draw a rainbow and put it in your windows so people can see it. As you are going on your walk, look out for rainbows in the windows around you!
• Gosport Rocks local Gosportians paint rocks with bright colours and images and hide them around Gosport, you can find them when you go on your walks. Stay safe – don’t touch the rocks!

 

Crafty and creative

• Draw with Rob
• Bread Ahead baking tutorials
• Origami
• VideoJug learn to make or do a whole range of things with these youtube videos
• Good Tricks learn to do magic!

 

Music and the stage

 

• Patatap make your own music using your keyboard!
• Tabletop Audio – an ambient sound mixer with a fantasy fiction/game leaning, immerse yourselves in different places, like a fantasy library. Studies show ambient sounds can help with concentration and improve both the output of work and your mental well-being as you do it, so this is a great option for studying.

 

Watch concerts

• Berlin Philharmonic: Digital Concert Hall
• Kennedy Center Digital Stage
• The Met Opera you do need to buy a subscription to watch the full operas, but you can watch clips, short videos, etc., free
• Liverpool Philharmonic live streamed concerts
• Oslo Philharmonic videos

 

Miscellaneous

• ABC Australia: Multiple Education Resources
• Reach the World journeys and adventures for teachers and students
• Rainforest Alliance
• National Geographic – Kids

 

Not free but close!

British Sign Language – £5 for students £10 for key workers; learn British Sign Language online