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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

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.

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