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Literacy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bug Club (ActiveLearn)<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Online reading tool. Check out the Bug Club<\/a> page on this site for more information.<\/p>\n

Doorway Online<\/a> – Activities, printables and games to develop phonics and writing.<\/p>\n

ICT Games (Literacy)<\/a>\u00a0 – Selection of phonics, spelling and comprehension activities. Site tablet and desktop friendly.<\/p>\n

Oxford Reading Owl<\/a> – Selection of free eBooks. Requires login\/registration.<\/p>\n

Storyline Online<\/a> – YouTube Channel where authors and celebrities read stories.<\/p>\n

Teach English<\/a> – Selection of resources and books to help in the teaching of English. Useful for English as additional language pupils.<\/p>\n

World Stories<\/a> – A selection of stories in eBook format in multiple languages. No app required to read.<\/p>\n

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Maths \/ Numeracy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cool Maths Games\u00a0<\/a>\u2013 Hours of fun and you don\u2019t realise you are learning.<\/p>\n

Count on Us<\/a> – Maths games to get learners thinking.<\/p>\n

ICT Games (Maths)<\/a> – Selection of games that are tablet and desktop friendly.<\/p>\n

Maths Games<\/a> – Selection of games<\/p>\n

Math Playground<\/a> – Selection of online games for all learners.<\/p>\n

Maths Week Scotland<\/a> – Challenges for Maths Week but available all year.<\/p>\n

Multiplication.com<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Learn your tables by playing games.<\/p>\n

Snappy Maths<\/a> – Free Worksheets and interactive activities.<\/p>\n

Sumdog.com<\/a> \u2013 Practice maths through games.<\/p>\n

TopMarks\u00a0<\/a>\u2013 Great learning tool and home of \u2018Hit the Button<\/a>\u2018 and other maths games.<\/p>\n

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Health and Wellbeing<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brake!<\/a> – Road safety resources.<\/p>\n

Cookin’ Castle<\/a> – Learn about food, nutrition and food safety.<\/p>\n

Cosmic Kids Yoga<\/a> – YouTube channel for learners to practice yoga techniques and keep calm.<\/p>\n

Food for Life<\/a> – Fact File on healthy and safe eating choices.<\/p>\n

Food Standards Scotland<\/a> – Selection of resources focusing on food safety and healthy eating. Also check out\u00a0Cookin’ Castle<\/a> to go with these resources.<\/p>\n

GoNoodle Family<\/a> – Games and activity videos promoting positive midsets. No log ins required for family site.<\/p>\n

Imagination Tree<\/a> – Ideas for nurturing, creativity, fun and wellbeing.<\/p>\n

NHS Relationship and Sexual Health<\/a> – Click link for more information.<\/p>\n

Road Safety<\/a> – Links from Road Safety Scotland to reinforce messages from home and school.<\/p>\n

Royal Highland Educational Trust<\/a> – Resources to support food and farming. Also STEM activities.<\/p>\n

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French and Spanish<\/strong><\/p>\n

Duolingo<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Learn languages the easy and free way.<\/p>\n

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Science and Outdoors<\/strong><\/p>\n

Crash Course Kid<\/a>s – YouTube Channel, science videos for children.<\/p>\n

National Geographic Kids<\/a> – Fantastic content and child friendly.<\/p>\n

Nature Detectives<\/a> – Resources prepared by Woodlands Trust<\/p>\n

The Kids Should See This!<\/a> – Smart videos for curious minds.<\/p>\n

TigTag Science<\/a> – Free resources on material, physical and life processes. As well as section on people and places.<\/p>\n

Wow Science<\/a> – Range of links, games and podcasts on almost every science topic.<\/p>\n

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Technologies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blocky Games<\/a> – Introduce learners to using block coding.<\/p>\n

Hour of Code<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Learn basic of computer programming and coding through games.<\/p>\n

Think You Know?<\/a> – Online activities for teaching safety on the web.<\/p>\n

Scratch<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Coding for children aged 8+<\/p>\n

Scratch Jr\u00a0<\/a>\u2013 Coding for young children aged 5-7.<\/p>\n

Typing Skills from Doorway Online<\/a> – Touch Typing Tutor Game<\/p>\n

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Other<\/strong><\/p>\n

BBC Bitesize Primary<\/a> – Activities and games on a number of curriculum areas.\u00a0(Click on your child\u2019s stage Early-P1, First P2-4 and Second P5-7)<\/p>\n

BBC Scotland Learning<\/a> – Learning projects, videos and stories from BBC Scotland.<\/p>\n

Newsround<\/a> – Daily News Programme for kids. Also fun quizzes and puzzles.<\/p>\n

Pawprint Challenge Packs<\/a> – Challenges to engage learners and cross curricular.<\/p>\n

Primary Homework Help<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Lots of resources covering almost any subject.<\/p>\n

SCRAN<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Library of images. Free to access with your\u00a0Glow<\/a>\u00a0login.<\/p>\n

Toy Theatre<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Great maths, art, puzzle and spelling games.<\/p>\n

Woodlands Junior<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Games and tools on everything. Maths to history to science.<\/p>\n

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Literacy Bug Club (ActiveLearn)\u00a0\u2013 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)\u00a0 – Selection of phonics, spelling and comprehension activities. Site tablet and desktop friendly. Oxford Reading Owl – Selection of free eBooks. … Continue reading Top Sites<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3027,"featured_media":0,"parent":38,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-166","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/cl\/menstrieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/cl\/menstrieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/cl\/menstrieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/cl\/menstrieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3027"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/cl\/menstrieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/cl\/menstrieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3000,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/cl\/menstrieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/166\/revisions\/3000"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/cl\/menstrieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/cl\/menstrieprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}