Independence Resources
This page has been put together for you so you can pick and choose the activities and tasks you work on each day.
We are suggesting you pick one task from each section to work on every day you normally have college. We will still be contacting you and keeping in touch via email so don’t forget to send us your completed work!
If you have any ideas for activities, tasks or challenges you would like to work on – please let us know and we will create some resources for you.
If you have any questions about any of the tasks or just want to get in touch, please email your tutor.
nickcouzens@exe-coll.ac.uk
louiselewis@exe-coll.ac.uk
markmcgee@exe-coll.ac.uk
We’ll see you all as soon as we can, take care.
Independence
This section is where you can find ideas for developing your independence skills. Have a look at the targets below for ideas on areas you can work on. Make sure to capture evidence of you working on and achieving your target and send it to your tutor. If you want to work on any other skills that aren’t included in RARPA that is great.
Kitchen Skills
Community Independence
Employability
PSHE
RARPA Personal, Social and Health
Resources
English
This section has lots of resources to help you maintain and develop your literacy skills. Pick a few different activities to work on each week.
Online Games and Activities Links
- www.diaryzapp.com/
- www.my-diary.org/
- https://www.helpfulgames.com/subjects/english/#
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/skillswise/english/zjg4scw
(more links to follow)
Intro Activities
This section is for those of you who find reading and writing difficult
- Going To A Cafe
- Invitation Email
- College Interview Letter
- Going to the cinema
- Recognising common words
- Job Interview Letter
- Party Invitation
- Writing instructions
- 45 Creative Activities
- Cooking Instructions
- Cooking spellings and verbs
- Footy Alphabet
- Pushbike
- TrueFalse
- What is it
Engage Activities
This section is for those of you who find reading and writing ok
- Advertise Your Town Activity
- English Ancient Myth Creative Writing Activity
- Classroom Conundrum Creative Writing Activity
- Continue The Story Activity
- Letter To Your Map Activity
- Hedgehog News Report Activity
- Simplifying Spelling Booklet
- Functional Skills
- Newspaper article template
- What do I need to do
- Caring Comments Activity
- Fury Good Activity
- Logo Loony Activity
- Meal Deal Activity
- Functional Skills Tasks
- Spelling Games
- Community Research
- Spelling games 2
- Be Creative
- Compare
- Dictionary Skills
- Footy Descriptions
- Footy Fact or Opinion
- Footy Fan Diary
- Footy New Product
- Footy Profile
- Footy Words
- Headlines
- Job Reading task
- Magic Carpet
- New Products
- Punctuation
- Robot
- Word parts
Stretch Activities
This section is for those who want to try something a bit harder
- John’s Crazy Socks News Report Activity
- Unanswered Questions Activity
- Volunteer Job Advert Activity
- Square Eyes Activity
- English Words Activity
- Footy Definitions
- Footy Highs and Lows
- Footy Living Abroad
- Footy VIP
- Heroes
- Home Learning Pack
Practice Papers
https://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/functional-skills/english/assessment/
Maths
This section has lots of resources to help you maintain and develop your numeracy skills. Pick a few different activities to work on each week.
Online Games and Activities Links
- www.bbc.co.uk/teach/skillswise/math/zfdymfr
- www.funbrainjr.com/games
- www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/collections/primary-games/1
- www.prodigygame.com
- www.learnyourtables.co.uk/en/index2.h
- http://fluencychallenge.com/play/play-claw.html
- https://www.piximaths.co.uk/functional-maths
(more links to follow)
Intro Activities
This section is for those of you who find maths difficult
- Addition to 10
- Shape and Position
- Vending Machine
- Halloween Maths
- Add the Dots
- More, Less or Same
- Colour the patterns
- Count and Colour
- Money
- Functional English and Maths Tasks
- Symmetry
- Footy Kit
- Footy Shapes
Engage Activities
This section is for those of you who find maths ok
- Counting up to find change and money differences
- Decorating a room
- Division
- Challenge Cards
- MojiMaths Challenge Cards
- Number Lines
- One more one less
- Phone passcode
- Pokemon missing number
- What do I need to do
- Train journeys
- Short and Tall of it Activity
- Functional Skills Tasks
- Footy Fan Spaces
- Footy Finance
- Footy Heights
- Footy Kit Wash
- Footy Outing
- Footy Stadiums
- Footy Tickets
- Footy Time
- Footy Travel
- Footy Weights
Stretch Activities
This section is for those who want to try something a bit harder
- Bathroom Project
- Dimensions
- Estate Agents Task
- Handling Data
- Mental addition and subtraction strategies
- Phone investigation
- Time and Fractions
- Footy Advertising
- Footy Budget
- Footy Circles
- Footy Club Shop
- Footy Gifts
- Footy Pitch Area
Practice Papers
Personal Development
This section has links and resources that have been put together to help you learn some new skills and keep you busy. If you would like to work on a project of your own about something that interests you that is absolutely fine, just make sure you email your tutor to let them know.
- First Aid Project - (Click to view)
Over the next couple of weeks we would like you all to work on a First Aid project. We will be adding a few resources onto this site but please use YouTube and the St John’s Ambulance site to help develop your skills. When we return you will have a chance to demonstrate your skills! Practice making a pretend emergency call with someone you live with and write your address near the phone to help you remember should you ever need it.
(We plan to add a new project every 2 weeks)
Resources
- 25 Great Non-Screen Activities
- 60 Daily Wellbeing Tasks
- Stay at Home Challenges
- Art work Community Activity
- Feeling Anxious Choice Cards
- Wellbeing
Links
The Government has put together a selection of online training to help develop your IT and numeracy skills. Have a look at the link below to see if this is something you want to work on.
Free Digital and numeracy training
https://theskillstoolkit.campaign.gov.uk/
Competition Time
While we are all away we thought it might be a good idea to set up some competitions that we can all share when we return. If you want to have a go at some or all of these and submit your entries to your tutor.
- Recreate your favourite scene from a movie. Film it and edit it together as best you can. We will need to guess which movie it is from!
- Create a song using an app like Garage band or similar or make your own instruments to play it on. You can either write your own song or do a cover version!
- Draw a self-portrait. Take a picture and send it to your tutor. You can use anything to do this!
- Learn to say some simple phrases in a new language. Record yourself saying them and send to your tutor!
- Bake a cake and get your family to judge the results. Send your pics and crumbs to your tutor!
- Fix something that is broken…before and after pictures to be sent to your tutor!
- Teach a pet a new trick. You will need: a pet. Record the new trick and send to your tutor!
- Draw a picture of a member of your family by holding the pen with your feet. Show them the picture and tell them “It looks just like you!”
- Make a home for wildlife. It could be for a bird, mammal, insect etc.
- Learn a magic trick. Film yourself and send the results to your tutor.