Literacy
Bug Club (ActiveLearn) – Online reading tool. Check out the Bug Club page on this site for more information.
Doorway Online – Activities, printables and games to develop phonics and writing.
ICT Games (Literacy) – Selection of phonics, spelling and comprehension activities. Site tablet and desktop friendly.
Oxford Reading Owl – Selection of free eBooks. Requires login/registration.
Storyline Online – YouTube Channel where authors and celebrities read stories.
Teach English – Selection of resources and books to help in the teaching of English. Useful for English as additional language pupils.
World Stories – A selection of stories in eBook format in multiple languages. No app required to read.
Maths / Numeracy
Cool Maths Games – Hours of fun and you don’t realise you are learning.
Count on Us – Maths games to get learners thinking.
ICT Games (Maths) – Selection of games that are tablet and desktop friendly.
Maths Games – Selection of games
Math Playground – Selection of online games for all learners.
Maths Week Scotland – Challenges for Maths Week but available all year.
Multiplication.com – Learn your tables by playing games.
Snappy Maths – Free Worksheets and interactive activities.
Sumdog.com – Practice maths through games.
TopMarks – Great learning tool and home of ‘Hit the Button‘ and other maths games.
Health and Wellbeing
Brake! – Road safety resources.
Cookin’ Castle – Learn about food, nutrition and food safety.
Cosmic Kids Yoga – YouTube channel for learners to practice yoga techniques and keep calm.
Food for Life – Fact File on healthy and safe eating choices.
Food Standards Scotland – Selection of resources focusing on food safety and healthy eating. Also check out Cookin’ Castle to go with these resources.
GoNoodle Family – Games and activity videos promoting positive midsets. No log ins required for family site.
Imagination Tree – Ideas for nurturing, creativity, fun and wellbeing.
NHS Relationship and Sexual Health – Click link for more information.
Road Safety – Links from Road Safety Scotland to reinforce messages from home and school.
Royal Highland Educational Trust – Resources to support food and farming. Also STEM activities.
French and Spanish
Duolingo – Learn languages the easy and free way.
Science and Outdoors
Crash Course Kids – YouTube Channel, science videos for children.
National Geographic Kids – Fantastic content and child friendly.
Nature Detectives – Resources prepared by Woodlands Trust
The Kids Should See This! – Smart videos for curious minds.
TigTag Science – Free resources on material, physical and life processes. As well as section on people and places.
Wow Science – Range of links, games and podcasts on almost every science topic.
Technologies
Blocky Games – Introduce learners to using block coding.
Hour of Code – Learn basic of computer programming and coding through games.
Think You Know? – Online activities for teaching safety on the web.
Scratch – Coding for children aged 8+
Scratch Jr – Coding for young children aged 5-7.
Typing Skills from Doorway Online – Touch Typing Tutor Game
Other
BBC Bitesize Primary – Activities and games on a number of curriculum areas. (Click on your child’s stage Early-P1, First P2-4 and Second P5-7)
BBC Scotland Learning – Learning projects, videos and stories from BBC Scotland.
Newsround – Daily News Programme for kids. Also fun quizzes and puzzles.
Pawprint Challenge Packs – Challenges to engage learners and cross curricular.
Primary Homework Help – Lots of resources covering almost any subject.
SCRAN – Library of images. Free to access with your Glow login.
Toy Theatre – Great maths, art, puzzle and spelling games.
Woodlands Junior – Games and tools on everything. Maths to history to science.
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