Useful Links
Please find below a variety of links to useful learning resources.
ART
The National Gallery – The whole collection online!
DESIGN TECHNOLOGY
How Stuff Works – A site jam packed full of useful information on how everything works.
Flying Pig – Ideas on mechanisms and structures.
CBeebies – Activities and games based on CBeebies characters such as the Teletubbies, Fimbles, Tweenies and Bob the Builder. Aimed at ages up to 6.
EDUCATION SITES
The Grid – The public pages from Hertfordshire Education.
BBC Learning – Contains a range of interactive sites for Primary Pupils – check out SPYWATCH and The Romans.
GEOGRAPHY
Ordnance Survey – Free and Fun section of the OS site for children.
Barnaby Bear – Supports KS1 QCA Geography Unit 5: Where in the world is Barnaby Bear?
Rivers & Coasts – KS2 QCA Geography Units 14 and 23: Investigating rivers and coasts.
Two Cities – Explores and compares life in Belfast and Mexico City.
What is Weather? – Covers KS2 QCA Geography Unit 7: Weather around the world.
HISTORY
Channel 4 Learning – Channel 4’s site packed with information and sources for historical research.
Ancient Greece – BBC Ancient Greece covers KS2 QCA History Units 14 and 15.
Anglo-Saxons – BBC Anglo-Saxons covers KS2 QCA History Unit 6B: An Anglo-Saxon case study.
Victorians – BBC Children in Victorian Britain covers KS2 QCA History Unit 11.
World War II Children – BBC Children of World War 2 covers KS2 QCA History unit 9.
Romans – BBC Covers KS2 QCA History Unit 6A:A Roman case study.
Vikings – BBC Covers KS2 QCA History Unit 6C: A Viking case study.
BBC History Case Studies – BBC Case studies in Unit 6: Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, Unit 8: Tudors, Unit 11 and 12: Victorians and Unit 13: Changes since 1948
The National Maritime Museum – The National Maritime Museums site with links to the Royal Observatory.
The Victoria and Albert Museum – The Victoria and Albert Museum better known as The V&A.
HOMEWORK HELP
SAM Learning – SAM Learning offers comprehensive online learning courses for SATs.
Resources – A service for students from KS2, KS3, GCSE and AS/A2 Level to ask a teacher a question on homework, coursework or revision (replies in 24 hours) and to search the database of over 15,000 previously asked questions.
ICT
How Stuff Works – A site jam packed full of useful information on how everything works including the INTERNET!
LANGUAGES
Primary French – Beginners’ French for 10-11 year olds. Content also relevant to KS2 QCA Units 1-6.
LITERACY
Treasure Island – A site based on treasure island
The Official Eric Carle Website – The official Eric Carle website – features ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and ‘The Red Fox’.
Beatrix Potter – The world of Beatrix Potter tells us about the life of the author and the characters in her books.
CBeebies – Activities and games based on CBeebies characters such as the Teletubbies, Fimbles, Tweenies and Bob the Builder. Aimed at ages up to 6.
Digger and the Gang – Digger and the Gang activities to support Year 3 and 4 of the National Strategies for Literacy and Numeracy, and KS1 and KS2 programmes of study.
Dynamo – DynaMo Literacy, numeracy and science games, including Spellbound and Who’s Spooking Who? Designed for home use.
Spellits – Covers the word and text objectives of year 3, 4 and 5 of the National Literacy Strategy.
Starship – Aimed at children preparing for KS1 National Tests in English.
The Magic Key – Can be used in the literacy hour for reception year and year 1.
Words and Pictures – Learning phonics can be used as part of the literacy hour for years 1, 2 and 3 with interactive games suitable for whole class work using an interactive whiteboard.
NUMERACY
NRICH – A really rich resource, for extending students, with new activities each month; use the Archive to find activities and solutions from previous months.
CBeebies – Activities and games based on CBeebies characters such as the Teletubbies, Fimbles, Tweenies and Bob the Builder. Aimed at ages up to 6.
Digger and the Gang – Digger and the Gang activities to support Year 3 and 4 of the National Strategies for Literacy and Numeracy, and KS1 and KS2 programmes of study.
Number Time – Number Time activities alot into the Numeracy Framework for reception year and years 1 and 2.
Starship – Aimed at children preparing for KS1 National Tests in English.
PE
The Olympic Movement – The site for all information on the Olympic movement.
Rugby Football Union – The official site of the Rugby Football Union.
SCIENCE
CBeebies – Activities and games based on CBeebies characters such as the Teletubbies, Fimbles, Tweenies and Bob the Builder. Aimed at ages up to 6.
Digger and the Gang -Digger and the Gang activities to support Year 3 and 4 of the National Strategies for Literacy and Numeracy, and KS1 and KS2 programmes of study.
Dynamo – DynaMo Literacy, numeracy and science games, including Spellbound and Who’s Spooking Who? Designed for home use.
Pod’s Mission – Pod’s Mission covers KS2 QCA Science Unit 4A: Moving and growing, Unit 4D:Solids, liquids and how they can be seperated, and Unit 4F: Circuits and conductors. There is also a unit on bones.
