St. Aidan's Primary School

Resources to Support Learning

Numeracy Strategy Guide

 

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

VIRTUAL KEYBOARD – PIANO

 

Health & Wellbeing

 

BBC – Education, Health – Feelings Narrowband Site

BBC – Schools Ages 4-11 – PSHE Sites

BMW Safe on the Street – Pupils Welcome

KidsHealth

Respectme – Home

Go Safe with Ziggy

 

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

British Council Learn 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.”

Coxhoe.durham.sch.uk

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

Dictionary.com

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

Primary Resources: English:

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.

Careers Big Books

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.

Phonics Games-Word Games-Reading Games-Free to Print n Play-Ideal for Reading Programs-Guided Reading-Improving Reading Speed

Stories from the Web

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.”

Funny poetry for children

Poetry Archives @ eMule.com

Scrambled Poetry

Maths

 

Ambleside C.E. Primary School

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 – Number Time- Homepage

BBC – Schools Ages 4-11 – Numeracy Sites

Brain Boosters offers kids’ educational activities online.

Cool Maths Games

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.

Houghton Mifflin Math

Topmarks Maths – KS1

Topmarks Maths – KS2

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

Teaching Ideas – GeneralMaths

Mathsplayground.com

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

Rainforest Maths

Super Maths World

Woodlands Maths Zone – Interactive maths –

Coxhoe Durham School

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.

Lightbulb Languages

East Renfrew Modern Langauges Links

 

Early Years

 

Paulys Playhouse

http://www.paulysplayhouse.com/paulys_playhouse/game_page/game.html

Education Scotland – Early Learning & Childcare

http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/learningandteaching/earlylearningandchildcare/resources/index.asp

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

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/

Starfall

http://www.starfall.com/

Instant Displays
http://www.instantdisplay.co.uk/

CrickWeb – Early Years

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html

ICT Games

http://www.ictgames.com/

Early Learning Online

http://www.earlylearningonline.co.uk/

ICT in the Early Years
http://foundation.e2bn.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=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

http://www.poissonrouge.com/

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.under5s.co.uk/

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

 

Mr Nussbaum – Science

Coxhoe Durham School – Science

K ids.earth.nasa.gov

Kids National Geographic

Science.Channel.com/

Howstuffworks.com/

Scholastic.com/sciman says

BBC Earth.co.uk/

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

BBC Schools – Science

http://www.biology4kids.com/

http://www.chem4kids.com/

www.darvill.clara.net

eNature: America’s Wildlife Resource

Explore, Play, Discover: Websites & Activities | Exploratorium

Fact Monster – Science

kiddyhouse.com

materialworlds – virtual reality science projects – physics simulation games – virtual reality science experiments

Natural History Museum

Primary Resources: Science

Science – General / Investigative Teaching Ideas

Generation Green

Interactive Whiteboard Resources: Science, Key Stage 2 – Topmarks Education

The Great Plant Escape

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, Past Events & Society

People, Place & Environment

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

Teach ICT

Resources for older pupils

Teaching Ideas – ICT

Falkirk Council – ICT Blog

 

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

 

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