Links
| Site title | Description | |
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| 101 Christmas ICT | Lots of ideas to do with Christmas using ICT. | |
| A Game a day | A site for children, with educational puzzles and games. | |
| A search engine | Google is perhaps the most powerful general search engine | |
| Active Science | A science web site where you can play fun games to find out information. | |
| Advice on helping your child | This site contains a range of guides to help parents and carers understand and play an active part in their child's learning. Each guide covers a popular primary topic. | |
| Advisory Centre for Education | ACE advises parents on state-funded education in England and Wales. | |
| Africam | A virtual game reserve. | |
| Alfy Music Mania | An American site with several areas. Sing along for younger children, learn to play the piano! | |
| Alice in Wonderland - An Interactive adventure | Lots of interacitve activities based around the story of Alice in Wonderland. | |
| An adapted story with images | The Nursery Alice containing Twenty Coloured Elargements From Tenniel's Illustrations to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland With Text Adapted To Nursery Readers by Lewis Carroll |
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| Ask Jeeves search engine | Ask your question to Jeeves and he will search for an answer. | |
| BBC Audio on demand | Play a recent edition of the daily Radio 3 programme for children, 'Making tacks'. | |
| BBC Audio on demand | Listen to a recent edition of the daily Radio 3 programme for children, 'Making Tracks', introduced by Blue Peter presenters. | |
| BBC for parents | The BBC's website for parents about education. | |
| BBC Learning | BBC Learning for adults and children | |
| Becta | Becta is the Government's lead agency for ICT in education. | |
| Bizzikid | Online learning, home school, learning games and fun activities for kids, free stuff for kids. Making education fun, quizzes, sport, music, science and cool stuff for kids | |
| Blue Peter website | Lots of exciting activities to do. | |
| Bob the Builder | Lots of fun things to do with Bob the Builder | |
| Bristol Zoo | Find out what's happening at Bristol Zoo. | |
| Cadbury Learning Zone | Interactive site which features three imaginative websites - Maths in the factory, Cadbury's History and Cadbury Land Yowie Environmental Education, supporting programmes of study at key stage 2. | |
| Castle school website | The Castle school is where the majority of our pupils move onto after finishing at Gillingstool. | |
| CBeebies website | Fun and games with your favourite TV characters. | |
| Children's award winning museum website | The 24 Hour Museum's site for children, Show me, has recently won the Charity Awards in the Arts, Culture and Heritage project category. The awards are organised by Charity Finance magazine, and recognise excellence in the leadership and management of charities. The site brings together digital content for children from the UK's museums and galleries. | |
| Children's BBC website | Competitions and quizzes and much more.... | |
| Clipart | Teacher, Student & Family-Friendly FREE clipart, coloring pages, banners, backgrounds, fonts, icons, lines, worksheets and wallpaper with aliens, animals, cats, creatures, dogs, education, holidays, robots, sports, toys, weather & more | |
| Create word search puzzles | Create professional looking word search puzzles to support curriculum teaching. | |
| Creating music | Compose music, play with musical performance, music games and music puzzles | |
| Curriculum Online | Look for ICT resources that can be purchased for different curriculum areas linked to the National Curriculum and eligible for purchase with eLCs. | |
| DFES | The Department for Education and skills website. Search for information on aducation issues form the Ntional Curriculum and OFSTED to bullying. | |
| ed-u.com | The Education Mega-Site! ed-u.com has moved all the Web addresses you need to one address. | |
| Educate | Website with lesson plans and worksheets for teachers; puzzles, colouring sheets, fact files and SATs revision help for kids; guidelines to understanding the education system, how it affects your child and tips on how you can get involved in your child's education and school for parents. | |
| Education Guardian | Current education news. | |
| English and drama resources | Now 4000 pages of classroom materials for Primary, Secondary and F.E. English, Drama and Media Studies teachers! | |
| Foundation Stage | FInd out everything you want to know about the foundation stage curriculum. | |
| Fun website links for younger children | This website has loads of links to fun websites for younger children. | |
| Fun websites for Early Years | Loads of links to fun websites for children in the Early Years. | |
| Game Sloth games | A games website recommended by David in Year 6. | |
| Grid Club 7-11 | The official DfES website for 7 - 11 year olds. Hundreds of free interactive resources, online dictionary, thesaurus and fact gadget! | |
| Gris Club | DfEE sponsored site for parents and children. Games, information and revision - worth a look. | |
| Hamilton Trust resources | The aims are to support primary teachers in raising pupil achievement, and to reduce teacher workload! Adaptable weekly plans and educational projects are based on work with local schools. | |
| Head Lice | Find out how to bust those bugs! | |
| Help your child to learn | Help and advice about schools, the school curriculum and topical information about education issues. | |
| Help your child with reading | An article 'Parents guide to reading' by Judith Puddick. | |
| Homework help | Need help with your homework? Ask the experts at homework High. | |
| Hot Potatoes | The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web | |
| How Stuff Works | Check this place out. All the everyday stuff around us that we take for granted, answers to how it all works are here. Great site for kids & grown ups alike, more links there to other knowledge sites. | |
| Icteachers | Resources, photos and links to other sites. | |
| Jolly Phonics | Find out more information about Jolly Phonics that is used in Reception. | |
| Journeys to Wonderland - stories,activities and animations | Dreamchild worked in partnership with the Museum of Oxford and Christ Church to create the site for the British Library & SEMLAC (South-East Museums Libraries and Archives Council). It is based on the BL's original handwritten manuscript of 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground'. | |
| Kids click search | A web search engine that has been desgned by librarians. | |
| Language teaching | An on-line treasure chest of advice, case studies and resources on early language learning providing a wealth of useful materials for anyone teaching or planning to teach a foreign or community language in primary schools. | |
| Links to other websites | Visit this website to find links to websites for quizzes, homework help, and cyberhunts! | |
| Literacy Matters | Cut down on the time spent planning for the Literacy Hour. | |
| Living Library | A great fun site with lots of games and quizzes to do with books. | |
| Maths enrichement | Maths problems and challenges in a fun way! Good for maths clubs. | |
| Maths Maze | Maths planning resources broken down into Year groups . | |
| Maths problems | A site with lots of challenging maths problems | |
| Museums in the UK | Museums around the UK on the web. | |
| Music BBC Radio 3 online | 15 different interactive sound activities for KS1 & KS2 | |
| Music making tracks KS1 | A drag and drp sound making activity from the Radio 3 collection. | |
| Music - Jabberwocky! (KS2) | Children use the computer's sound recorder to manipulate their recordings of words inspired by 'Jabberwocky'. | |
| Music - Virtual Theremin KS1 | The Theremin is an early electronic instument controlled by moving your hands nearer to or further from sensors. | |
| Music midi work KS1 & KS2 | Several suggestions and resources for using MIDI material to support class singing from KS1 to KS3. | |
| Music pattern builder | Use the keyboard to add a note and produce a pattern to listen to. | |
| Music Playmusic orchestra KS2 | American site designed for childen who are interested in playing an orchestral instrument. Basic info about instrument and short orchestral excerpts. | |
| Music teaching using ICT | Resources and further links to useful resources (including sound files) for using the Internet, MIDI files, sound processing and using electronic keyboards. | |
| Music- playign wiht tempo and dynamics | A simple tool for exploring dynamics (soft and loud) and tempo (slow and fast). | |
| Nasa Animation site | The best animations ever on an internet site and the most fun you can have still on earth! | |
| National Curriculum in Practice | This website uses examples of childrens' work to show what the National Curriculum looks like in practice. | |
| Natural History Museum | Visit the Natural History Museum. | |
| Numbertime | Have fun improving your maths skills. | |
| Online revision for Key Stage 2 | Online revision tests for Year 6 in maths/ literacy / science | |
| Parents Online | The web site written by parents to help parents with children through their primary school years | |
| Poetry for kids | A great website with lots of fun poetry. | |
| Primary resources | Lesson plans, activity ideas and resources for Primary teachers. | |
| QCA Schemes of Work | Link to the QCA schemes of work for each curriculum area. | |
| Quizland | Translate your name into Eqyptian hieroglyphics. | |
| Roald Dahl | This is the official Roald Dahl site | |
| schools web directory | Links to schools across the countie and country. | |
| Schoolsource | A directory of education links for Key Stage 2 teachers. | |
| Search engines for kids and families | The Wise Kids website provides links to a number of search engines for kids and families | |
| SEN teacher | A website with some good resurces to print out. | |
| Snaith Primary | Brilliant website with loads of links to help curriculum planning from nursery to Year 6. A curriculum resource to make using the Internet in the classroom realistic. | |
| Teacher Subject Associations | A range of Teacher Subject Associations for different curriculum areas. | |
| Teaching Ideas | Lots of worksheets and ideas sectioned into curriculum areas. | |
| The Bristol Dinosaur Project | Information about what the project is, what the Bristol DInosaur looked like and work being done on it now. | |
| The Mouse Club | A fun website with stories, games and things to make | |
| The StandardsSite | The DES Dtandards Site. | |
| Top homework site | An award winning education portal produced and maintained by children. Kevin's Playroom was nominated TOP HOMEWORK SITE by the viewers of CiTV. | |
| Top Marks | Articles and features written by practising teachers designed to help with the education of your child. | |
| Toy Shop | A excellent toy shop in Thornbury, full of fun and educational toys. It's run by Sarah Peppin, mum of Aidan and Rosie. | |
| Under Fives | Under 5's Early Years Education website. Activities, links and things to buy. | |
| View Earth from a Satellite | View the Earth from a choice of Satellites. | |
| Virtual keyboard | A simple keyboard that is controlled by clicking the mouse. | |
| Virual Teacher Centre | The VTC is a service for schools professionals providing news, support for professional development and the facility to search quality-badged resources across the National Grid for Learning. | |
| Words and Pictures | BBC Words and Pictures | |
| www.help.ik.com | This web site provides online help. | |
| www.ik.com | The web's premier supplier of quality build your own web sites for all sizes of business. | |
| www.schools.ik.com | The place to go for your FREE educational web site. | |
| Yahooligans search engine | A web guide for kids. | |