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Religious Education
www.dottieandbuzz.co.uk
This site is aimed at keystage one children. It is very bold and colourful and
contains a song about the creation, a creation game and printable creation worksheet.
www.holidays.net
This site covers lots of religious festivals including; Ramadam, Mardi Gras,
Easter, Passover and Christmas. Lovely site full of resources and interactive
areas. Well worth a look
Music
www.bbc.co.uk/music Lovely site for children to explore various aspects of music.
www.playmusic.org A chance for children to look at sections of the orchestra.
Art.
www.scribbleskidsart.com
This site contains information about lots of artists. It also has drawing tips
and examples of techniques. It has an interactive quiz.For younger children
there is a click and drag colouring book.
www.artcyclopedia.com
Has pictures of 125,000 works of art.Easy search engine.
PSHE
www.bbc.co.uk/schools
link to pshe 5-16 years- learning to be you. Nice interactive site where children
have to make lists about friendship and safety issues.The lists can then be
printed.
History.
www.bbc.co.uk/schools
link to history. Children in Victorian Britain (9-11). This is an interactive
site that looks at children at work, school, and play. Includes film footage
and games.
www.ancientegypt.co.uk
Loads of information, games and stories. Really informative and great fun.
www.gridclub.com
Great site, fun, information, games covers Egypt, Greece, Romans, Anglo Saxons,
Vikings, Aztecs, Tudors, Victorians and post 1930 Britain. Huge amount of information.
Snaith Primary School
Lovely site from Snaith Primary School.
This site covers many history and geography topics including India, Ancient
Greece, Vikings, Egypt and Myths and Legends. Incredibly child friendly, much
of the site has been designed and written by children.
www.holnet.org
Covers second world war and Victorian London.Includes maps and different London
boroughs.Loads to browse through.
Science
Planets- BBC site covering the solar system
Nine planets- Another site covering the solar system
Astronomy Find out all about the planets
Plant Part Salad Lovely, lovely! Pick a plant part (eg tomato) pick the part of the plant it is (eg fruit) and bingo! it goes in the salad! Takes a while to download, but you can load it before use and it's worth its wait in gold.
Worm World Get the dirt on the worms! Watch them being born or see their hearts beating (yes, they do have them - five in fact!) Lots of other fantastic resources which the younger scientist will adore! Try the Slime Quiz for starters.
Eggs to Toads lists a superb range of amphibious resources (?). Whether you're a toad watcher or a frog fancier, you'll find all you need to know about the life cycle of these slimy subjects. And no need to handle one, either...
X-ray Imaging This simulation lets you see how imaging techniques can let you see inside an object (such as the human body or an alien!).
Kidsfood An interactive site for kids designed to promote healthy eating and nutrition. Games, competitions, challenges and puzzles make this a good site to let KS2 children loose on. Better still set them a points target to see how well they understand the need for good nutrition.
Seeing, Hearing, Smelling World A multi sensory site providing facts, data and other on-line resources. Links to experts and current research.
Sight vs. Sound A virtual learning tool. Test your responses to these two different imputes. What does this tell us about the development of our senses?
Make a Splash with Colour is a great site for KS2 or as a teachers resource for all primary. It puts colour in context as well as covering some important ideas.
Marvellous Machines Springs, gears, friction, pulleys and planes... some good experiments (including printable resources) to do in school or try at home. Great for technology, too, with a separate section on Hands On Technology.
Bash the Trash make musical (?) instruments from... trash. Or rubbish to you. Great activities for investigating sound and driving the teacher in the next class crazy. Lots more at Musical Craft Projects
Research Lesson This page offers a research lesson plan on health and fitness, understanding nutrition and food nutrients and how these affect physical performance. Web links to enable the research are provided.
Materials and the Weather A website for Key Stage 1 children looking at materials used for clothing designed for different weather. This was created by a primary school and is beautiful in its simplicity!
Education Center Activity Eat Right! A brilliant plan to illustrate a healthy diet. Simple print out available for whole class use. Requires simple construction of own food triangle. Can be single lesson or extendable. Very good simple lesson plan.
www.coolmeals.com
Information linked to healthy eating and healthy bodies. Lots of food facts.
www.nutritionexplorations.com
Family site, aimed at parents and children. Contains quizzes and recipe based
around nutrition.
www.channel4.co.uk
follow link to learning keystage 2. Contains good Science, History and Geography
resources linked to QCA. Many printable resources.
www.schoolsobservatory.org
Investigate the universe.Great shots of the current night sky at various places.
Allows you to observe through various telescopes.
Numeracy
Birmingham
Grid for Learning A very colourful website which definitely has a ‘kids’
feel to it. Plenty of activities to keep the young-learner active, but if
boredom beckons then there are plenty of links to more maths learning websites.
Plane
Maths
Visually impressive with a high level of interactivity makes for a fun and
intuitive learning experience. The website incorporates ‘real-world’ concepts
within its structure which makes the maths much more interesting and, inevitably,
more useful. Plane as in aeroplane.
Puzzlemaths
This
website uses shockwave to power the interactive games which are very well
designed and make the user think decisively. Varying levels of difficult
also give the user an added challenge. Excellent graphics compliment this
usable and effective maths learning website.
Maths
Tutor Quite a simplistic and overtly colourful website with some
useful mathematical information, focusing mainly on angles and scientific
measurements (which could be seen as leaning more towards the scientific
than mathematical). It also has an online test facility, similar to that
of an actual exam, which proves to be useful.
MathsMansion
This is a great challenge for ks2 students. Not only is it a good learning
experience, it is also an interesting and somewhat exciting story as well.
Great graphics and a simple and usable interface is an added bonus.
mega
maths
A variety of games allow children to practice their Maths in a fun way.
Aimed at children aged 7-9 and focussing on shapes and multiplication tables.
Particularly enjoyable is the world of tables/pick a number/table tournament.
clockwise
Time: Clever but simple game to teach pupils to tell the time using the
character Dynamo from the popular schools programme. Uses a digital clock
as well as the traditional clock face.
free
school worksheets in english, maths and science
Tutorial world provides free assessment worksheets for the pupil to practice.
Simply print the exercise and then check against the answers provided.
Welcome
to Megamaths
This excellent BBC site is designed to complement and support the TV series
Megamaths. Typically, the site and its activities are top notch.
Aunty
Math
is a basic but colourful website and features day to day challenges which
children must try to complete. Once completed, the solution may, at a student’s
discretion, by emailed to ‘Aunty Math’. A well thought out and explained
site.
Alien
tables
You must only allow (deactivate) spacecraft to enter which have numbers
that are a multiple of the selected number; hyperblast the others
(enemies) - a great for learning multiplication tables
battlestar
mathematica
A superb game where, if you get the questions right, you can control the
battleship and shoot the asteroids.
number
cruncher
Answer these mental maths problems and see the numbers crunch. Four levels
cover operators on one or two digit numbers
penalty
shootout
First choose your player and goalie, then level of difficulty (from four)
and answer these mental maths questions - if you're right you get to take
and score the penalty!
worm
bingo
Shoot the worms to obtain the numbers to complete the sum. a strange and
intriguing game - great for mental arithmetic
Brain Bashers
A unique collection of brain teasers, games and optical illusions. This
site is updated with at least 5 new teasers each Sunday
Primary
Maths Resources
Hosted by Research Machines there is a large number of free resources which
you can download from the site in PDF format.
Checkout
Challenge
An idea for a game to improve pupils' mental calculations. Children get
to become the shop checkout, in a fun activity where children purchase items
and keep running totals. Lots of scope for differentiation with larger numbers.
A good idea for a competitive activity!
Multiplication
Worksheets
Multiplication worksheets that vary in difficulty. A clearly set out site.
Mathematics
Lesson Plans
This site contains seventy-five Maths lesson plans across the whole Maths
Curriculum for Key Stage 2 pupils. Teachers will find a number of useful
suggestions to support their Maths teaching.
Triangles
Various activities related to triangles - manmade triangles, abstract triangles,
and trapezoids.
Games
Excellent games site from the Birmingham Numeracy Strategy. Aimed at primary
level pupils
Farmer
Grovers Maths Game
Help Farmer Grover find the numbers that are scattered throughout his farm
www.counton.org
Great maths sites for all ages.
www.mathsphere.co.uk
Nice site.In the games section there is a great Tangram game.
www.bbc.co.uk/revisewise
Science,literacy and numeracy revision for year 6 children.
www.aplusmath.com
Contains nice basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division games.
Lovely key stage one site
www.schooldiscovery.com
Loads of maths and English puzzles for teachers to print out.
www.cadburylearningzone.co.uk
Nice slant on maths looking at making and packaging chocolate with interactive
maths games. Has a parent and teacher area.
Literacy
rhyme
zone
A wonderful site, type in a word and find rhymes and synonyms. Plus searches
of certain ´´great works´´ and an on-line quiz area.
Good fun, but beware, the rhyming area is mildly addictive
beantime
stories
A great site for stories for younger children. Beautifully illustrated with
lots of related activities, this site will enchant children and be welcomed
by parents and teachers.
stories
for children of all ages
Here's a wonderful resource for all busy parents, just select a story and
print it out. Parents and Teachers will discover a wealth of great stories
to read to their children and pupils respectively.
Grimm
fairy tales
fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. Read and hear interactive, narrated,
animated stories.
BBC Education - Words and Pictures Colourful games, print offs, animations and activities to help 5 to 7 year olds with reading and phonics - an invaluable resource for the Literacy Hour and fun to use at home
spelling it right - slightly pedantic format, but an excellent basic grammar and spelling guide aimed at helping parents to help their children
grammar gorillas - this website offers online activities for visitors to test their grammar knowledge. A teachers' practical advice, suggestions and good information about reading. Worth checking out for new approaches.
writing den - an on-line learning tool to assist students with their writing. Features include help and tips for grammar, words, sentence writing, and paragraphs. There is a teacher's guide and you can have a "word of the day" e-mailed to you.
puzzlemaker - students can devise their own word searches or crossword games, based on the spelling lists they have just learnt, then try them out on each other.
primary
resources
if you like worksheets, this site has a fairly good selection. Some on-line
versions, others in pdf format for better printing, though of course you
can't edit them.
absolutely
whootie
is brightly designed and great. Stories to print off, sounds to listen to,
word searches and so on. Don't be put off by the login, keep clicking around;
there is loads of stuff from different cultures and religions.
stories
from the web
a lovely site for children to develop a love and understanding of literature
and writing. Some unusual activities and inspirational ideas for materials
relating to pirates.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Everyone can enjoy this online version of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" complete with accompanying music. You'll have to pay for the complete version but this site is well worth a visit.
Consonant, vowel, consonant list Web page providing a printable checklist of cvc (consonant, vowel, consonant) words which are intended to be learned and then tested.
Resources for teaching writing There are links here to a range of downloadable writing frames.
Learning
Games for English.
Dozens of activities to let your students loose on!
The Big Harbour the story of Theodore the Tugboat- several activities and the background to this story
Animated Picture Book is a great resource for KS1 literacy, an on-line book with simple graphics
Ideas and Resources for Literacy Teaching This site offers ideas and resources for literacy teaching. David Wray thinks about literary audience, environment and skills.
Playmaker Expert advice on how to put on play: costumes, masks, scripts and ideas!
Grammar Gorillas Grammar Gorillas website offers online activities for visitors to test their grammar knowledge.
cyberkids
creative works
Cyberkids website publishes original creative work by kids ages 7 to 12.
Also, in the "Kids Connect" area of Cyberkids, they provide chat
rooms and message boards where kids can communicate with their peers. This
page takes the visitor directly to the creative works page which offers
stories, poetry and art.
characters
Children can use the activity to build simple profiles of characters linked
to stories they have read, describing characteristics and appearances with
pictures, single words, captions and sentences.
spellbound
A simple but fun to play spelling game
abc
teach
all sorts of activities for children, some on line, some to be used as worksheets,
covers reading, writing, comprehension, sign language and maths. Really
excellent.
