KS2 Resources

Nowadays, more and more parents and teachers are seeking online educational tools to help teach their children.  But with the wealth of material that is now available online, as a parent it is actually very easy to teach your own child personally, in order to boost their education.  I am not suggesting pulling them from school and doing it all yourself! Unless of course this is a route you have carefully considered. 

You do not have to be a qualified expert to take up this additional learning, just access to the internet and of course… the time.

I believe that spending as little as one hour per week Monday to Thursday is more than enough to boost their learning with great noticeable results.  I wouldn’t advise more than one hour as you do not want to ‘overload’ your wee one’s.

There are numerous websites available on the internet providing material to support teachers, schools, tutors and parents. 

They can use these websites for a range of resources in order to educate their children; such as,

Maths sums

Literacy skills

Games

Puzzles 

Lesson plans

Fact sheets

Videos

Spellings

Activities

KS2 is the abbreviated term for the Key Stage 2 of the compulsory schooling system in the United Kingdom. Under this system, key stages are the different phases during student life created on the basis of the learning levels, categorisation of teaching topics and teaching resources to be used. The four distinct stages are Key Stages 1, 2, 3 and 4.

At Key Stages 1 and 2, there are a number of core and foundation subjects that all children will learn.

The Core subjects are Maths, English and Science.

As the pupils progress, they start to learn other subjects such as Technology and Design and ICT (Information and Communication Technology), Geography, Art, Music, PE and History.

Schools also have a duty by law to teach Religious Education, but it is not a necessity for children to attend these classes if parents decide not to include them in these lessons.  Schools are also advised to teach personal, social and health education (PSHE), citizenship, and at least one modern foreign language.

Key Stage 2 involves using various kinds of teaching resources so that the learning process becomes student centric, interesting and developmental. Some of the most popular and effective resources are

Presentations,

Games,

Quizzes,

Activities,

Worksheets,

Flashcards, and

Interactive blackboard exercises.

Colourful, informative and interactive presentations or worksheets can be used while addressing an assembly on theoretical knowledge about a topic or instructing about how to go about doing something, e.g. writing poems.

Creativity thought out activities also goes a long way in making learning interesting. For example, assigning students to be tree detectives and chalk out an activity so that they learn about all tree details. Provide the world map as a puzzle and let them fix it. Games like hangman are very useful in word construction. Showing a set of informative flashcards and asking the associated information is one of the best memorizing techniques and can be used extensively in case of subjects like Science and History.

The best strategy for teachers is to plan the lesson well regarding what is to be taught, creatively assess what kind of resource would suit the students best, view the resources or create them, use them effectively and regularly monitor progress and evaluate progress of the pupils, using KeyStageTwo.com

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