Expressive Arts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/schools/4_11/primaryart/
This Primary Art online resource shows how to create 3 themed murals. Targeted at 9 – 11 year olds, many of the activities could be used with younger and slightly older children.
Tux Paint
Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, key stages 1 and 2). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.
Music
Sphinx Kids! Classical Music Interactive Learning & Games
ArtsAlive.ca – Music : Activities and Games
BBC – Schools Ages 4-11 – Music Sites
Classics For Kids: Compose Your Own Music
Classics for Kids: Note Name Game
DSOKids • Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Pauly’s Laboratory “Freaky Frank’s Music Machine”
Soungle.com – Royalty Free Sound Effects (FX) Library for Download
Health & Wellbeing
BBC – Education, Health – Feelings Narrowband Site
BBC – Schools Ages 4-11 – PSHE Sites
BMW Safe on the Street – Pupils Welcome
Literacy
Topmarks Education: teaching resources, interactive resources, worksheets, homework, exam and revision help http://www.topmarks.co.uk/?Subject=9
Education Scotland – Scotland’s Stories
http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/scotlandsstories/index.asp
4Kids.org
Take a break from your homework and kick back with these fun games.4Kids is teaming with Arcademic Skill Builders, who develop online games that offer a fun approach to learning math, language arts, vocabulary and thinking skills.
Ambleside C.E. Primary School Literacy Hour
“This page collects together some activities and resources to support the Literacy Hour at Ambleside Primary School. All the activities are made by staff or children at our school. You will find a list of useful Internet links at the bottom.”
Arcademic Skill Builders: Online Educational Video Games
Arcademic Skill Builders are research-based and standards-aligned educational games that offer an innovative approach to teaching basic academic skills.
BBC – Digger and the Gang – Homepage
BBC – Schools Ages 4-11 – Literacy Sites
BBC – Schools – Words and Pictures
BBC – Starship – English – Homepage
BBC – The Magic Key – Homepage
BGFL – Whiteboards – Foundation Communicating
BGfL – Whiteboards – Primary English
CLWG: Children’s Literature Web Guide
“The Children’s Literature Web Guide is an attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of Internet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults. Much of the information that you can find through these pages is provided by others: fans, schools, libraries, and commercial enterprises involved in the book world.”
Crickweb | KS1 Literacy
12 Key Stage 1 Literacy interactive resources for Primary Schools.
English interactive resources and activities for your IWB
Crickweb | KS2 Literacy
16 Key Stage 2 Literacy interactive resources for Primary Schools.
English interactive resources and activities for your IWB.
Dictionary and Thesaurus – Free Online at Your Dictionary
HWB – Digital Learning for Wales
FunBrain.com – The Internet’s #1 Education Site for K-8 Kids and Teachers
ict games literacy
This site provides educational ICT activites linked to the English National Curriculum. These games are generally targeted at infant school teachers and parents of infant age children.
Interactive Whiteboard Resources: Literacy, Key Stage 1 – Topmarks Education
Interactive Whiteboard Resources: Literacy, Key Stage 2 – Topmarks Education
Language Arts – PrimaryGames.com – Free Games for Kids
Learn to Read at Starfall – teaching comprehension and phonics
Literacy in Primary Education – Teacher Network
Link list
Literacy Teaching Ideas – Reading (General)
Literacy | Schools links | EducationGuardian.co.uk
literacywebsites
From Cornwall ICT “This is a list of sites, which teachers may find useful for preparation for, or use in, the Literacy Hour”
LITTLE EXPLORERS Picture Dictionary by EnchantedLearning.com
lookcover
Flash Spelling game from Ambleside Primary
Teachit.co.uk – Home
Teachit’s library of English teaching resources
Woodlands Literacy Zone – Interactive Literacy Games –
Reading & Online Stories
Author Jan Brett’s Home Page – A Great Place for Ideas
Jan Brett’s wonderful website is a beautiful, well maintained site. Check out the art work and the postcards.
Chateau Meddybemps
Chateau Meddybemps was created to enable parents and teachers to help young children strengthen learning skills in unique and playful ways.
Children’s Storybooks Online – Stories for Kids of All Ages
Fables, Fairy Tales
Fables, Fairy Tales, Stories and Nursery Rhymes
Interactive Story Books online
This page has been created by Woodlands Junior School for students to improve their literacy skills and for teachers seeking literacy resources to use on an interactive whiteboard or computer.
Poetry
Poetry for Kids
“Welcome to Kenn Nesbitt’s poetry playground, Poetry4kids.com, where you will find lots of funny poems and poetry books for children, games, contests, lessons, discussion forums, and journals, plus a rhyming dictionary, funny poetry podcast, school visit information and lots more.”
Maths
Teaching tools, tests, games and much more…
Interactive Activities &Teaching Tools
Arcademic Skill Builders: Online Educational Video Games
Arcademic Skill Builders are research-based and standards-aligned educational games that offer an innovative approach to teaching basic academic skills. We incorporate features of arcade games and educational practices into fun online games that will engage, motivate, and teach your students.
www.mrnussbaum.com – The Best Educational Games on the Internet
Shine & Write
A collection of Maths teaching resources
BBC – Schools Ages 4-11 – Numeracy Sites
Brain Boosters offers kids’ educational activities online.
Crickweb | KS1 Numeracy
15 Key Stage 1 Numeracy interactive resources for Primary Schools.
Maths interactive resources and activities for your IWB.
Elmgrove Interactive
Elmgrove Primary School puzzles that may help with work in the curriculum
Geoboard – NLVM
A physical geoboard is a board with nails hammered into it. Shapes are created by stretching elastics around the nails. This is a virtual geoboard.
http://www.kidsmathgamesonline.com/
Math For Kids – By KidsNumbers.com
Our innovative math skills development programs are research based, and really work. They are 100% FREE. Use the free math games and math activities to review, and keep your math wits sharp, or use one of our math foundations programs to develop the basic brain skills that are required to succeed with math.
Play Kids Games.org
Practice your math skills with these fun and challenging games. There are action games, puzzles, and other learning activities. Concepts include basic math operations, algebra, percent, geometry, and money.
Fact Monster Math: Flashcards, multiplication, fractions, conversions, measurement
Mathematics
East Renfrew Maths Links
Maths interactive resources – Channel 4 Learning
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Number & Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, Data Analysis & Probability
nrich.maths.org :: Mathematics Enrichment
The NRICH Project aims to enrich the mathematical experiences of all learners. To support this aim, members of the NRICH team work in a wide range of capacities, including providing professional development for teachers wishing to embed rich mathematical tasks into everyday classroom practice.
NumberNut.com: Basic Math Activities
ICT Games.com- Maths
This site provides educational ICT activites linked to the English National Curriculum. All games are designed, made by and © copyright 2005 of James Barrett. These games are generally targeted at infant school teachers and parents of infant age children.
Primary Resources: Maths: General Resources
Woodlands Maths Zone – Interactive maths –
EduPlace Maths Resources
Choose a grade and then eManipulatives for useful maths tools
MathsRoom
This site is a collection of links to Maths web resources and interactive teaching aids from a teacher at Invergordon Academy
Modern Languages
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/
BBC – Schools Ages 4-11 – Languages Sites
Foreign Languages Teaching Ideas – General Ideas
Primary MFL Ideas
Education Scotland – Animated French Stories
National Glow Site – Modern Languages
Primary Resources: Modern Foreign Languages: General Resources & Ideas
Bleu, Blanc, Rouge
A website for teachers wishing to access resources for teaching French in the Primary School. The site contains songs & rhymes, language games, art & seasonal ideas, tongue twisters, recipes & links to French stories on the net.
Bitesize 2nd Level – Modern Languages
A good place to look for video resources for classroom teaching. They have videos on all subjects, including French, German and Spanish.
Crickweb Spanish
Great Interactive Resources.
Crickweb French
More Interactive Resources.
Ashcombe School – GCSE Videos
Some very useful videos here for teaching languages. Videos are a little small, but come with a quiz.
Newbury Park – Language of the Month
Short video clips that would be ideal to introduce different languages in Primary schools.
WatchKnow
Simple videos to introduce French, Spanish and other languages at Primary level. Includes pronunciation guides.
East Renfrew Modern Langauges Links
Early Years
Paulys Playhouse
http://www.paulysplayhouse.com/paulys_playhouse/game_page/game.html
Education Scotland – Early Learning & Childcare
BBC – CBeebies
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/
BBC – Preschool
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/preschool/
Up to Ten
http://www.uptoten.com/kids/uptoten-home.html
First School – Art & Craft Activites
http://www.first-school.ws/INDEX.HTM
TopMarks – Early Years
Starfall
Instant Displays
http://www.instantdisplay.co.uk/
CrickWeb – Early Years
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html
ICT Games
Early Learning Online
http://www.earlylearningonline.co.uk/
ICT in the Early Years
http://foundation.e2bn.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=4&id=7&Itemid=28
Sebastian Swan
http://www.sebastianswan.org.uk/ ]
Fun with Spot
http://www.funwithspot.com/uk/
Enchanted Learning – Rhymes
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Rhymes.html
Enchanted Learning Pre School
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/categories/preschool.shtml
MAPE Big Books
http://www.mape.org.uk/activities/BigBooks/index.htm
Poisson Rouge
Northern Grid http://www.northerngrid.co.uk/
http://www.hitchams.suffolk.sch.uk/foundation/index.htm Hitchams Suffolk School
http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/eng/index-new.htm
http://www.communication4all.co.uk/HomePage.htm Communication4all.
Lots of printable materials
http://www.senteacher.org/Print/ Lots of customisable materials
http://www.priorywoods.middlesbrough.sch.uk/resources/restop.htm Priorywoods resources
SEN resources that may also be useful for early years
http://ambleweb.digitalbrain.com/ambleweb/web/Primary%20Pages/Foundation/ Ambleweb.weblinks
http://www.teachthechildrenwell.com/early.html Lots of weblinks
http://www.channel4.com/learning/microsites/H/hoobs/activities/index.jsp
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/menu.shtml Little Animals Activity Centre
http://www.nationalpriorities.org.uk/searches/search2.php#found National Priorities- nursery
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/earlyyears/resources/weblinksdirectory/index.asp
http://www.coxhoe.durham.sch.uk/Curriculum/Numeracy.htm Coxhoe.durham.school
http://www.storyplace.org/preschool/other.asp StoryPlace preschool activities
http://www.helpkidzlearn.com/index.html HelpKidzLearn
A nice site from Inclusive Technologies with free games, stories etc.
Aimed at switch users but much would suit early years also.
www.puzzlepixies.comPuzzle Pixies
http://www.talkingproducts.co.uk Talking Products
http://www.topicbox.org Topic Box
RME
BBC – Religion & Ethics – Guides to world religions
BuddhaNet – Worldwide Buddhist Information and Education Network
Educhurch – RE resource for schools
Islam for Children
Information for children between the ages of seven and eleven, easy to read language.
RE
Re pages from Hitcham’s school includes a Virtual Mosque and Synagogue useful for looking at before a visit.
REonline
Teacher and pupil resources for RE, English Key Stages
Talk-Islam.com – Islamic Religion, Muslim Religion
The Holy See
English version of the official Vatican site
Coxhoe Durham School – Religious Education Links
Science Links
Coxhoe Durham School – Science
BBC Schools – Digger >Digger & the Gang – Science section Age 5-7 – Into the boat, Float and Sink, Animal Park Age 7-9 – Stuck on the tracks, Looping the Loop, Up and Down Age 9-11 – Setting Course, Spacecraft Checks, Crash Landing
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/podsmission Pod’s Mission Bones, Electricity, Solids and Liquids
eNature: America’s Wildlife Resource
Explore, Play, Discover: Websites & Activities | Exploratorium
Science – General / Investigative Teaching Ideas
Interactive Whiteboard Resources: Science, Key Stage 2 – Topmarks Education
Social Studies
BBC – Schools Ages 4-11 – Geography Sites
Environmental Studies Web Links
Environmental Studies Web Links from Aberdeenshire Council
Rader’s GEOGRAPHY 4 KIDS.COM
“This site has an introduction to the earth sciences that includes topics on the Earth’s structure, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere”
Thinking Things from Snaith Primary
Information from Snaith primary School on a variety of subjects. Teacher’s notes to download.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/”>BBC – History – Egyptians
BBC – Schools Ages 4-11 – History Sites
People in Society
Links from East Renfrew
ICT Links
ictopus
Ictopus (ICT online primary user support) is a free support service for primary education. Sharing good practice, lessons2go, newsblog
Welcome to the Web
Subsite of Teaching Ideas: This web site will help you to learn all about the Internet!
Mape
ICT in Schools
Soungle
Royalty Free Sound Effects Library
Resources for older pupils
Internet Safety
Respect Me
Really useful tips about bullying
Kidsmart
Information for parents, teachers and pupils. Mobiles, music, filesharing and social networking.
NSPCC Online Safety
Lots of useful information for parents about all aspects of keeping safe online
Chatdanger – how to keep SAFE while chatting online
“a site all about the potential dangers on interactive services online like chat, IM, online games, email and on mobiles. ” True stories and advice, teachers should review stories first.
Child Exploitation & Online Protection Centre – internet safety – CEOP
“The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre is part of UK police and is dedicated to protecting children from sexual abuse wherever they may be. That means building intelligence around the risks, tracking and bringing offenders to account either directly or with local and international forces and working with children and parents to deliver our unique ThinkuKnow educational programme. Our approach is truly holistic, our style is totally inclusive and our appeal is to everyone out there to work with us in making every child matter, everywhere”
CyberSavvy.org
from The Direct Marketing Association
OnGuard Online A user-friendly seven-step guide to help you have a safe and secure online experience.
Get CyberSavvy, a Guide to Parenting Skills for the Digital Age. It covers online basics, behavior and privacy, and helps families and educators ensure a safe and fulfilling online experience for children.
Department for Children, Schools and Families : Byron Review
An independent review looking at the risks to children from exposure to potentially harmful or inappropriate material on the internet and in video games. by Dr Tanya Byron
Get Safe Online
Advice on “Protecting your PC, avoiding online rip-offs and taking care of your identity and privacy” Adult audience.
Internet safety & civility | SafeKids.com
Blog and advice about cyberbullying.
Kids Rules for Online Safety (for pre-teens)
From SafeKids.com 10 rules for younger children.
Connect Safely-Cyberbullying
Guidance for Parents and Young People
Sid’s Online Safety Guide
For pupils age 8 to 12: ‘Become an Internet Safety Expert with Bizzi Sid by collecting codes and playing cool games!’
Think U Know -8-10
Games and information for 8-10 year olds from Think U Know.
Welcome – digizen.org
Digital citizenship
Advice on Young People and Social Networking Services.
Information on Cyberbulling
Pupils can can create their own Widget to express your online citizen values and wishes for yourself, your friends and your world.
Know IT All
Resources designed to help educate parents, teachers and young people about safe and positive use of the internet
UK Safer Internet Centre
eSafety Tips, Advice and Resources
Instagram help centre
Resources and Tips to educate parents about Instagram
OnGuard Online
Really good guide for parents about all aspects of cyber safety
Parents Protect
Really useful internet safety tips to help children remain safe
Internet safety
Presentation about internet safety
Smartboard Resources
SMART Exchange – England – Search lessons by keyword
SMART Board Templates
Welcome – Think Bank : Educational Technology CPD
joplin.me.uk
Free Technology for Teachers
Just Kids Games
Teachers Love SMART Boards: SMART Board: Games
links – teachnic
SMARTBoard/IWB Resources | Talking SMARTBoards & Much More!
Interactive Board Uses Tips and Tricks – Google Slides
Clipart
http://wayback.archive-it.org/1961/20100805084032/http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/5to14/resources/illustrations/index.asp
These illustrationsand photographs are free for any kind of educational use –
You can use these images for educational purposes without worrying about cost or copyright.
School-Clip-Art.com
http://www.school-clip-art.com/
Clip Art linked to US school topics.
Provided FREE for educational use. Teachers can use them for worksheets, Lesson Plans, Quizzes, Web sites, and other classroom needs. Students can use them for their homework assignments and Web sites too. When using clip art please provide a link back to http://www.school-clip-art.com giving credit for the clip art used.
http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp
Photographs covering a range of topics. FreeFoto.com is the largest collection of free photographs on the Internet (link back and attribution required).
East Riding Media
http://www.eriding.net/media/index.shtml
Images from East Riding RBC.
The resources are copyright-free, and may be used to illustrate your teaching and non-commercial educational activities, but wherever possible please acknowledge the source of the material as being www.eRiding.net.
http://www.pics4learning.com/
Images linked to US education
Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers. Attribution required.
http://www.shambles.net/image_search/
A picture search engine with family friendly filtering. Dealing with copyright is left to the user.
FreeDigitalPhotos
http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/
Thousands of royalty free photos for websites, newspapers, magazines, video and TV productions, iPhone applications, PowerPoint presentations, forums, blogs and school work.
Attribution required.
BBC – Class Clips
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education
Class Clips provides rich audio-visual material for use in primary schools, secondary schools and colleges. These short videos have been selected to match the curriculum. They can be used in many ways; from the stimulation and engagement of students to the delivery of very specific learning points. The material is drawn from the Learning Zone and elsewhere in the BBC.
Currently, the clips in the library are streaming format only. Therefore, it is not possible to download them to your machine.
morgueFile
http://www.morguefile.com/
No attribution necessary:
‘All images are really free and they can be used in your commercial projects without permission or credit from the photogrpaher. Although selling prints, selling the images directly or claiming the photo is yours is prohibited. ‘
Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/
Millions of images, searchable.
http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced Advanced search allows you to limit search to creativecommons licensed content which can be used for noncomercial content with attribution.
http://classroomclipart.com/clipart/Clipart.htm
