This is a great way for your child to get to know their tables or to revise them. Write the tables on sticks. Take it in turns to pick out a stick and try to correctly answer the table. If you are correct, keep the stick. If not, you place it back in box. If you receive a stick with ‘Kaboom’ on it put all the sticks you have collected back in the box and begin again!

Children of all ages can benefit immensely from play. So step back, allow your child to play. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop the skills children will continue to use in life. This is a fantastic website and now they have organised the play resources and ideas for indoors to be easily accessed for all during Covid 19 crisis. The link for this is: https://www.playboard.org/play-ideas/

A great STEM activity to try for the older children using an avocado pit. You can access it here at: https://www.shareitscience.com/2015/11/grow-an-avocado-hands-on-science.html

Don Conroy has launched his own YouTube Channel where he will teach us how to draw – a great way to pass the time while we must remain indoors. The first lesson shows us how to draw a clown!

The Ark @ Home is a way for children who are home from school to connect with The Ark through a series of at-home arts activities, virtual events, online screenings of live performances and much more.