Ancestry are currently offering free access to all UK records until Sunday 10th May as part of VE Day celebrations. You just need a username and password.
Be aware that you should download any documents or you won’t have access to them afterwards without a paid account.
A competition open to anyone between 7-12 years old.
Another competition from Into Film, this time with Puffin Books.
This competition aims to inspire young people to think about their dreams and how they can share them with the world. To enter, young people must storyboard their dream, whether it’s based on their personal goals, an extraordinary idea or even their favourite Puffin book. Above all, the judges will be looking for imagination and creativity! The competition is open for those aged 7-12 years, and entries are open until 3 August 2020.
More details here
https://www.intofilm.org/big-dreams-on-screen-terms-and-conditions
Into Film are an organisation for promoting film education to young people. 
During the coronavirus lockdown, IntoFilm are promoting a number of films available for free, free to stream or available via subscription services, and are also linking to activities related to those films.
The list is updated weekly so if you love film, it’s worth keeping an eye on.
https://www.intofilm.org/news-and-views/articles/weekly-tv-highlights
And don’t forget Into Film’s Review Competition – more details here.
More online stories: Katy Parker and the House That Cried
Katy and Patrick travel back in time to WW2, and have to try to find their way home again. Author Margaret Mulligan is reading a chapter a week (complete with dog). https://t.co/TuK2oscE25
— OLHS Library (@OLHSLRC) April 30, 2020
The BBC Scotland channel is showing educational programmes for the Scottish curriculum every morning, including Bitesize clips for primary and secondary and Authors Live.
You can get all the programmes and the television schedule here
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04yy4wy
There are plenty of other BBC programmes for English, Welsh and Northern Irish education that you might also find useful.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/bitesize-daily-lessons-schedule/zdtwjhv?dm_i=3YNL,14KSB,2M90YY,3YWMB,1
Wales
The Book of Hopes: words and pictures to comfort, inspire and entertain children in Lockdown
This is a collection of stories, poems and illustrations from over 100 children’s authors and illustrators.
The Book of Hopes aims to comfort, inspire and encourage children during lockdown through delight, new ideas, ridiculous jokes and heroic tales. There are true accounts of cats and hares and plastic-devouring caterpillars; there are doodles and flowers; revolting poems and beautiful poems; and there are stories of space travel and new shoes and dragons.
https://literacytrust.org.uk/news/katherine-rundell-launches-the-book-of-hopes-a-free-childrens-book-by-over-110-authors-and-illustrators/
The book has been published online or free. To read it, please click on the link below
The Royal Society have put together a collection of materials suitable for Science at Home for Primary and Secondary pupils, including 16+.
There are links to their own resources and other scientific bodies, including videos and ideas for experiments, as well as a range of STEM activities (Science, Technical, Engineering and Maths).
The Natural History Museum have a range of dinosaur-themed activities on this page, from origami, to cookies, to careers in palaeontology to quizzes. You can even take part in a school trip or find out what sort of dinosaur you’d be.
In you’re up for a big challenge, the Victoria and Albert Museum have created this 19th century peepshow. You would need to print out the individual sheets, and be very careful with the cutting out.
The Science Museum have loads of simple experiments you can try including making slime, bubbles and rockets.
Check the list against what you’ve got in the cupboards.
https://learning-resources.sciencemuseum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Kitchen-science.pdf
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