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A Cultural Quarantine
Continuing from Learn and Shine!
Many online resources have been made available to help support home learning. The following websites, TV programmes, podcasts and theatre performances could be useful to dip into over the next few weeks. They cover a range of areas in the curriculum and hopefully provide a lot of awe and wonder. Keep an eye out because things are changing all the time; for example, on Thursday 2 April Tate Modern announced that from 6 April you can take a free online tour of their Andy Warhol exhibition.
Why not take a virtual day out?
If you find any other useful sources, please tweet @CDPStoday with your recommendations.
The Royal Institution has a wide range of lectures and podcasts linked to Science.
A huge range of Ted Talks on topics from Science to Sport.
Free Audible stories and books aimed at children and teens. Also in French, Spanish and German to practice MFL.
The weekly From Our Own Correspondent podcast provides interesting news stories from across the world.
You can visit The British Museum to access their collections and find out more!
Take a virtual tour of the Museum of London.
Access a range of Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) productions via Marquee TV (free 30 day trial)
Dan Snow's History Hit has a free 30 day trial and loads of History documentaries.
Storytime at 11am every day with David Walliams as part of Elevenses.
From the BBC World Service, The Documentary podcast has stories from across the world.
A virtual tour of the world famous Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.
Explore the world with 360 cities and find out more about different locations with photographs and videos.
The National Theatre will be streaming a free performance every Thursday from 7pm.
Online music lessons on the Myleene's Music Klass YouTube channel
Sessions and Sounds performances exclusively for the BBC.
Discussions about Science and Space with Professor Brian Cox and Robin Ince on The Infinite Monkey Cage.
A virtual tour of The National Gallery in London.
The Google Expeditions app provides virtual tours across the world from Mount Everest to the coral reefs of Australia.
There are hundreds of great documentaries available on BBC iPlayer which can take you across the world or into the past. For example:
The Americas with Simon Reeve; The Blue Planet 1 and 2; The Earth from Space; Race across the World; Back in Time for the Corner Shop; The Planets; Africa with Ade Adepitan.