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Guidance Online science, PE, wellbeing and SEND resources for home education
Mental wellbeing: secondary
BPS
Website: https://www.bps.org.uk/news-and-blogs
Key stages: key stage 3 to key stage 5
Description: advice on dealing with school closures and talking to
children about COVID-19.
Registration: not required
Children’s Society
Website: https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/coronavirus-information-and-
support
Key stages: key stage 3 to key stage 5
Description: information and support on different aspects of mental health
and wellbeing.
Registration: not required
MindEd
Website: https://www.minded.org.uk/
Key stages: key stage 3 to key stage 5
Description: an educational resource for all adults on children and young
people’s mental health.
Registration: is required
Rise Above
Website: https://riseabove.org.uk/topic/my-mind/
Key stages: key stage 3 to key stage 5
Description: videos with tips on gaining confidence, dealing with anxiety
and coping strategies from other young people.
Registration: not required
The Child Bereavement Network
Website: http://www.childhoodbereavementnetwork.org.uk/covid-19.aspx
Key stages: key stage 3 to key stage 5
Description: advice on supporting grieving children during the coronavirus
outbreak.
Registration: not required
Guidance Online science, PE, wellbeing and SEND resources for home education
Physical education (PE) and physical activity
This updated list of physical education (PE) and physical activity resources
has been collected and assured with support from organisations including:

the Association for Physical Education
Public Health England
Sport England
the Yorkshire Sport Foundation

These resources will help young people to get the daily 60 minutes of activity
recommended by the UK Chief Medical Officer in fun ways.
All the resources listed here are for activities designed to be carried out
indoors or, if available, a garden. Children and their parents/carers can
exercise outside as often as they wish.
Exercise or recreation can be:

alone
with members of your household
with 1 other person from outside your household, while keeping 2 metres apart at all times

Outdoor exercise could include a walk, run or cycle with members of your
household.
Children and young people should always follow the latest official advice on
social distancing.
The activities can be adapted to suit the abilities and physical, emotional
and learning needs of individual children and young people. Always make sure
that the space and any equipment children and young people will use for these
activities are safe.
*[PE]: Physical education
Guidance Online science, PE, wellbeing and SEND resources for home education
Mental wellbeing
This list of mental wellbeing resources has been collected and assured with
support from our partners, the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and
Families.
It is designed to provide guidance on how to support the wellbeing of children
and young people being educated remotely.
Many organisations already working with schools will be able to provide remote
support, and schools are encouraged to discuss what ongoing support might be
available during this time.
Guidance Online science, PE, wellbeing and SEND resources for home education
Science
This list of science resources has been collected and assured with support
from learned societies and subject organisations, including:

the Association for Science Education (ASE)
the Institute of Physics (IOP)
the Royal Society
the Royal Society of Biology (RSB)
the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
STEM Learning

These resources link closely to the national curriculum, however there are
many other resources supporting enrichment and practical activities available
on the societies’ websites and elsewhere.
Care should be taken that all activities, especially practical activities, are
undertaken safely and with due regard for the abilities of the pupil.
Teachers and parents/carers should check that activities are appropriate for
the intended user and that they can be carried out safely in the home
environment.
[ASE]: the Association for Science Education
  [IOP]: the Institute of Physics
  [RSB]: the Royal Society of Biology (RSB)
  [RSC]: the Royal Society of Chemistry
  *[STEM]: Science, technology,engineering and maths
Guidance Online science, PE, wellbeing and SEND resources for home education
Other resources
There are other resources available. BESA’s LendEd
website and the EdTech Impact
website, for example, include varied resources
that teachers already use and rate within the websites.
These have not been verified by DfE’s educational experts but we have included
them on the list because they also cover other areas of the curriculum that
are not covered above.
[BESA]: British Education Suppliers Association
  [DfE]: Department for Education
Guidance Online science, PE, wellbeing and SEND resources for home education
Science: primary
BBC Bitesize
Website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary
Key stages: key stage 1 and key stage 2
Description: interactive resources covering the primary science
curriculum. Suitable for pupil/parent use.
Registration: not required
Century Tech
Website: https://www.century.tech/
Key stages: key stage 2
Description: online learning courses and assessments covering the key
stage 2 science curriculum. Options for either school or parent sign-up,
suitable for independent pupil use or teacher use.
Registration: is required (school or parent)
STEM Learning
Website: https://www.stem.org.uk/primary-science
Key stages: key stage 1 and key stage 2
Description: an online resource bank listing quality-assured resources on
external websites. The site features a live chat function offering support
from subject experts. Main resource bank suitable for teacher use. New ‘home
learning support for families’ section suitable for parent use.
Registration: is required for some resources
Guidance Online science, PE, wellbeing and SEND resources for home education
Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
This list of SEND resources has been developed with a focus on accessibility
and inclusivity and is based on the recommendations of:

trusted organisations
charities
multi-academy trusts
special education headteachers

The vast majority of the resources on this list are suitable for both parents
and teachers to use in supporting the home learning of children and young
people with SEND.
We encourage parents, teachers and schools to explore beyond this list to
identify what support is best for their children and pupils with SEND.
*[SEND]: Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
Guidance Online science, PE, wellbeing and SEND resources for home education
SEND: apps and games
(Apps must be downloaded onto a compatible device)
Brain Parade
Website: http://www.brainparade.com/products/see-touch-learn-free/
Description: a visual instruction app, including flash cards and picture-
choosing games, for children with autism and special needs.
HelpKidzLearn
Website: https://www.helpkidzlearn.com/
Description: a collection of games and resources designed for a range of
educational needs and stages. It includes provision for school closure.
Sensory App House Ltd
Website: https://www.sensoryapphouse.com/
Description: a range of apps are available for pupils with Profound and
Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD) or Severe Learning Difficulties (SLD).
All are interactive and many do not require significant coordination
abilities.
Visuals2Go
Website: https://www.visuals2go.com/
Description: an all-in-one app created to support people with
communication and learning difficulties. For verbal and non-verbal learners.
[PMLD]: Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties
  [SLD]: Severe Learning Difficulties
Guidance Online science, PE, wellbeing and SEND resources for home education
Mental wellbeing: primary
Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families
Website: https://www.annafreud.org/coronavirus-support/support-for-early-
years/
Key stages: early years foundation stage to key stage 2
Description: wellbeing advice for all those supporting children and young
people.
Registration: not required
British Psychological Society (BPS)
Website: https://www.bps.org.uk/news-and-policy/bps-offers-advice-
schools-parents-and-carers-help-children-through-uncertainty
Key stages: early years foundation stage to key stage 2
Description: advice on dealing with school closures and talking to
children about COVID-19.
Registration: not required
Children’s Commissioner
Website: https://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/publication/childrens-
guide-to-coronavirus/
Key stages: early years foundation stage to key stage 2
Description: a downloadable guide for children about coronavirus.
Registration: not required
MindEd
Website: https://www.minded.org.uk/
Key stages: early years foundation stage to key stage 2
Description: an educational resource for all adults on children and young
people’s mental health.
Registration: not required, but registration increases functionality
The Child Bereavement Network
Website: http://www.childhoodbereavementnetwork.org.uk/covid-19.aspx
Key stages: early years foundation stage to key stage 2
Description: advice on supporting grieving children during the coronavirus
outbreak.
Registration: not required
Guidance Online science, PE, wellbeing and SEND resources for home education
PE and physical activity: secondary
Seneca
Website:
https://app.senecalearning.com/courses?Price=Free&Age+Group=GCSE&Subject=Physical+Education
Key stages: key stage 4
Description: digital revision materials focussing on the GCSE PE
curriculum
Registration: not required
#ThisIsPE
Website: https://www.afpe.org.uk/physical-education/thisispe-supporting-
parents-to-teach-pe-at-home/
Key stages: key stage 3 and key stage 4
Description: videos delivered by teachers focussing on the PE curriculum
which are accessible on YouTube.
Registration: not required
[GCSE]: General Certificate of Secondary Education
  [PE]: Physical education
Guidance Online science, PE, wellbeing and SEND resources for home education
PE and physical activity: primary
Boogie Beebies
Website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mvsc
Key stages: early years foundation stage
Description: videos that get younger children up and dancing with CBeebies
presenters.
Registration: not required
Disney 10 Minute Shakeups
Website: https://www.nhs.uk/10-minute-shake-up/shake-ups
Key stages: early years foundation stage to key stage 2
Description: 10-minute activities based on Disney films that count towards
a child’s 60 active minutes per day.
Registration: not required
Super Movers
Website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers
Key stages: key stage 1 and key stage 2
Description: videos which help children move while they learn. They
support curriculum subjects, including maths and English.
Registration: not required
#ThisIsPE
Website: https://www.afpe.org.uk/physical-education/thisispe-supporting-
parents-to-teach-pe-at-home/
Key stages: key stage 1 and key stage 2
Description: videos delivered by teachers focussing on the PE curriculum
which are accessible on YouTube.
Registration: not required
*[PE]: Physical education
Guidance Providing free school meals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
National voucher scheme
Redeeming the vouchers
Once families have received their voucher, they will be able to redeem them in
store at the selected retailer by either:

presenting the voucher on a smartphone or tablet
presenting a paper copy of the voucher

Guidance
is available from Edenred for parents to help answer any questions they may
have.
Families are free to select the most appropriate food and drink for their
child. When selecting products, we encourage families to consider health and
nutrition. The School Food
Standards and the NHS Eat Well website may act as a useful guide for
families.
Vouchers must not be used for age-restricted items, such as alcohol,
cigarettes or lottery tickets.
Guidance Providing free school meals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
Additional costs
The payments for the national voucher scheme will be met centrally by DfE.
We understand that other approaches, such as providing food parcels or
purchasing vouchers for shops not in the national scheme, may mean that
schools incur additional costs. We have published guidance on the financial
support available for schools who incur these additional
costs in this way.
Schools will be able to claim up to a certain limit, depending on their number
of pupils, and where they are unable to meet these additional costs from their
existing resources, or which they could only meet by drawing down on reserves
and undermining their long-term financial sustainability. In exceptional
instances where individual schools face additional costs that are higher than
the grant’s limits, schools will be able to apply to increase their limit.
*[DfE]: Department for Education
Guidance Providing free school meals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
National voucher scheme
Alternative approach
You can choose a supermarket on the family’s behalf and either post the eGift
card to the parent or carer or arrange for them to collect it. The family will
be able to redeem the eGift card as soon as it arrives. You should take this
approach if the family receiving the voucher does not have access to an email
address or the internet.
If you choose this option, you should think carefully about which shops and
supermarkets are most convenient for families to access - if possible, ask the
families.
Guidance Providing free school meals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
Providing meals or food parcels through your food provider
We know that many schools and food providers are already finding very
effective ways to ensure that eligible children already receive free healthy
meals during this period.
As schools prepare to open more widely, they should speak to their school
catering team or provider about the best arrangements for school meals.
Schools should ensure that they are supported to return to school to provide
food both for those children attending school and for those remaining at home
who are eligible for free school meals.
We have published a planning guide for
schools to help schools prepare for children returning
to school. This includes suggested approaches to help school leaders in their
decision making around school meals, including working out arrangements for
lunch so that children do not mix with children from other groups.
This could mean having several lunch sittings or serving lunch in more than
one location, including if appropriate in a classroom, or asking your caterers
to look at other flexible ways of giving pupils access to lunch such that it
can be eaten in the small group setting (for example taking cold or ‘packed’
lunches to children in the areas they are in for the day).
In addition, please speak to your catering teams and food suppliers about the
most effective ways to manage the ordering and delivery of food during this
period. This may include:

arranging fewer food deliveries each week compared with standard periods when the school is open to all pupils
ordering longer shelf life products during this period, such as frozen foods or foods that can be safely stored at room temperature

In addition to providing meals in schools, you should consider with suppliers
whether they can prepare meals or food parcels that could be collected by or
delivered to families that are not in attendance. If you do provide meals or
food parcels, ensure they are distributed in line with guidance on social
distancing at all times.
The Food Standards Agency has issued general guidance for food
businesses.
Guidance Providing free school meals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
School food contracts
Speak to your catering provider(s) about your arrangements in response to the
coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
The Cabinet Office has published guidance for public bodies (Procurement
Policy Note 02/20) on payment of suppliers
that are at risk. It provides details on identifying suppliers that are at
risk.
Inform suppliers who you consider to be at risk that they will be paid as
normal (even if service delivery is disrupted or suspended) until at least the
end of June.
The government will continue to provide schools with their expected funding,
including funding to cover free school meals and universal infant free school
meals, throughout this period.
You should continue to make payments to food suppliers (that are considered at
risk) for the cost of free school meals and universal infant free school
meals. Payments should be based on the previous 3 months’ invoices, provided
the supplier agrees to act on an open book basis and make cost data available.
Schools should make payments to suppliers promptly and on time.
This does not apply to the costs of meals usually purchased by parents for
pupils who are not eligible for free school meals.
Guidance Providing free school meals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
Free school meal eligibility
You should continue to accept and verify free school meal applications. The
eligibility criteria for free school meals can be found at apply for free
school meals.
During the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, we are temporarily extending free
school meals eligibility to include some groups who have no recourse to public
funds (NRPF).
This temporary extension covers both children who are attending school and who
are at home.
See guidance for the temporary extension of free school meals eligibility to
NRPF groups for more information.
Pupils who attend a breakfast provision
We are committed to supporting schools and their pupils who would usually
benefit from the DfE breakfast programme.
If you’re on the programme, you will have received an email from the National
School Breakfast Programme about children who would normally receive a healthy
breakfast at school.
You can choose to support eligible children in the way which works best for
them, this could include:

running breakfast provision in school for children who are attending
families collecting food parcels
delivering breakfast food parcels to families

The breakfast food parcels should be arranged alongside the school’s wider
support for children on benefits-related free school meals, and schools must
follow Public Health England’s advice on social distancing at all times.
[NRPF]: no recourse to public funds
  [DfE]: Department for Education
Guidance Providing free school meals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
National voucher scheme
Sending eCodes to families
You can send a redemption eCode from the Edenred system directly to the parent
or carers of the pupil(s) eligible for free school meals. They should receive
the eCode and instructions on how to use this to create an eGift card within 4
days.
You should only consider this approach if the family receiving the support has
a working email account which they can access.
Guidance Providing free school meals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
Support for pupils who have to stay at home
Under normal circumstances, schools do not provide free school meals to
eligible children who are not in school. But during the coronavirus (COVID-19)
outbreak, we expect schools to continue supporting children eligible for
benefits-related free school meals who are at home.
The steps you take will depend on your circumstances. This could include:

providing meals or food parcels through your food provider
using the Department for Education’s (DfE) centrally-funded national voucher scheme
providing alternative vouchers for a local shop or supermarket

Free school meals should be offered to eligible pupils not attending school
during term time weeks. Costs of the national voucher scheme to provide free
school meals for eligible pupils will also be met by DfE over the Easter and
May half-term holidays.
Schools can claim for additional costs incurred in supporting free school
meals pupils, for example by providing vouchers for an alternative local
retailer, as outlined in the additional costs section below.
Universal infant free school meals
Schools should provide meal options free of charge to all infant pupils
attending school, including Reception and year 1 children returning from 1
June.
There is no requirement to provide universal infant free school meals to
infant pupils who are not in school.
Free meals for further education students
Further education institutions should continue to provide support for free
meal students where their existing funding and delivery arrangements allow for
this.
Further information is available in the 16 to 19 free meals in further
education guidance.
*[DfE]: Department for Education
Guidance Providing free school meals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
Providing meals for pupils attending school
Schools should provide meal options for all children who are in school, and
meals should be available free of charge to all infant pupils and pupils who
meet the benefits-related free school meals eligibility criteria.
The government will continue to provide schools with their expected funding,
including funding to cover benefits-related free school meals and universal
infant free school meals, throughout this period.
Guidance Providing free school meals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
National voucher scheme
How to order vouchers
Schools have received an email from Edenred with an activation code and a
step-by-step
guide
to using the online ordering portal.
Once you have activated your account on the Edenred portal, you can begin to
order vouchers.
When ordering vouchers, please do so in an efficient manner to cover multiple
weeks.
You can:

order a single voucher to cover a longer time frame, for example, £45 to support one eligible child over 3 weeks
order a single voucher to cover more than one eligible child within the same household, for example, £90 to support three eligible children over 2 weeks
set a weekly £15 rolling voucher

Once you have confirmed the voucher’s value, you can either:

send an eCode directly to the parent or carers of the pupils(s) eligible for free school meals - they will need to choose an eGift card from a range of supermarkets
select an eGift card on the parent or carer’s behalf, and print and post the eGift card to them
select an eGift card on the parent or carer’s behalf, print the eGift card and arrange for families to collect it
Guidance Providing free school meals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
National voucher scheme
As schools open more widely, and their kitchens reopen, we expect schools to
make food parcels available for collection or delivery for any children that
are eligible for free school meals who are staying at home.
Arranging food parcels helps ensure that eligible children have access to a
healthy free meal, and can also help the school to stay in contact with those
families. We know that many schools have made excellent food parcel
arrangements throughout this period.
If your school catering service cannot provide meals or food parcels for
children who are at home, you can continue to offer vouchers to families of
eligible pupils.
Before ordering vouchers, check which pupils are eligible and would be
receiving benefits-related free school meals.
We are monitoring voucher orders at school level to broadly check if they are
ordering in line with our estimates of the number of eligible children,
recognising that for some schools this will be lower if they are providing
food parcels, or using a local arrangement. If a school’s orders are higher
than expected, we may speak to the school about why this has occurred and will
take forward any necessary action to rectify the position. A cross check will
also be done for those making a claim for free school meals funding via the
financial support available for
schools.
For any voucher queries, please email:

freeschoolmeals@edenred.com for schools
freeschoolmealsparentscarers@edenred.com for parents and carers