Links to websites used within our school
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| kidshealth.org/ | An excellent website for children, explaining the human body and its many functions | |
| www.ajkids.com/ | Another safe childrens search engine | |
| www.legendsandlore.com/ | Great online Puppet site, giving great tips on how to make puppets | |
| www.howstuffworks.com/ | Find out how anything works-a excellent site | |
| www.activityvillage.co.uk/ | An excellent site for rainy days...with colouring pictures, downloads and many other fun activities | |
| www.scienceyear.com/wired/index.html?page=/planet10/ | A superb science website with a spectacular Virtual tor of the Solar System | |
| www.activityvillage.co.uk/harry_potter.htm | Hundreds of excellent Harry Potter links | |
| www.brainpop.com/ | A science website for children with some excellent movies | |
| www.toytheater.com/ | Great Website, with many online toys and activities for children to play with | |
| www.history.school-master.co.uk/ | An excellent if a little gruesome site containing information on King Henry VIII and the Tudors | |
| www.ars.usda.gov/is/kids/ | Science 4 Kids Website | |
| www.bonus.com/ | A superb site, full of online games, an absolute must visit on those cold, rainy days | |
| www.yahooligans.com/ | Safe childrens search engine | |
| www.kidsdomain.com/ | Superb childrens website, with 10's of downloads, including games, art and craft and much more | |
| www.ltscotland.com/storybook/# | This website contains a captivating collection of activities for children aged 5-8 years. The site is based on popular children's stories by authors Scoular Anderson, Debi Gliori, Mairi Hedderwick and Frank Rodgers. | |
| www.literacymatters.com/resources.html | 100's of Literacy resources, sorted by terms. | |
| www.thelighthouseforeducation.co.uk | A Curriculum Online endorsed search engine | |
| www.teachingcitizenship.org.uk/ | The main site for teaching Citizenship | |
| atschool.eduweb.co.uk/southwold/start.htm | A school website with some good Citizenship resources | |
| www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/pdf/secondaryschemes/ks1-2_teachers_guide.pdf | The official scheme of work from the DFES website. | |
| www.abelard.org/civil/civil.htm | Citizenship Curriculum from Abelard | |
| www.citfou.org.uk/ | The official citizenship foundation website | |
| edunet.iow.gov.uk/curriculum/vocational/citizenship/ | Isle of Wight Government, guide to Citizenship | |
| www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork/laic/teacher.html | Learning Adventures in Citizenship for Teachers, Parents and Children (An American site, but some nice ideas) | |
| www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/teachers/atoz/?searchterm=global%20citizenship | A Curriculum for Global Citizenship from the Oxfam website. | |
| www.qca.org.uk/ca/subjects/citizenship/citizenship_ks1_4.pdf | Guidance on assessment, recording and reporting Citizenship | |
| www.nc.uk.net/ld/PSHE_oppk1.html | Opportunities and activities for KS1 | |
| www.nc.uk.net/ld/PSHE_oppk2.html | Opportunities and activities at KS2 | |
| www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/schemes2/ks1-2citizenship/?view=Units | DFES Schemes of work: Key stages 1-2 Citizenship | |
| www.welltown.gov.uk/ | A virtual tour of Welltown..icluding the Health Centre, Park, School etc....EXCELLENT!!!! | |
| www.dfes.gov.uk/schoolattendance/upload/pupilleave.doc | DFES guide to school attendance | |
| 1st stop for RE resources | The first stop for RE resources in education. | |
| A Time to Sleep | Explore the strange and secret worlds of animals' winter habitats with activities that reinforce skills across the curriculum | |
| ABC Teach | Fairy Stories | |
| Aesop's Fables | Modern and Traditional Aesops tales | |
| All the Geography resources..... | All the Geography resources you need in one easy to navigate site. | |
| Ancient Egypt | Suitable for KS1/2 pupils & teachers An excellent site, full of high-quality photographs, interesting stories, fascinating statistics and tempting challenges. There is a wide range of themes to explore in depth, including Egyptian life and the story of the pyramids. |
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| Animated Gifs | 5000 totally free animated Gifs. great for websites. | |
| Anti Bully | Suitable for KS2 pupils A graphic site that covers all common forms of bullying, such as theft drugs trouble in, before and after school. What to do if nobody listens and telling the police are included. The emphasis is on hard facts and practical advice. |
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| Anti Bullying Network | Suitable for KS1/2 teachers & KS2 pupils News, competitions, feedback and tips. Pages for young people inform and advise teachers' pages cover praise and reward systems and kinds of bullying. Advice to parents includes: 'Don't tell your child to hit back.' |
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| Arts on the Move | Planning a drama lesson | |
| Ask Jeeves for Kids | Ask Jeeves for Kids | |
| Assemblies Website | Primary school assemblies for every season. | |
| Avenging Angel | Suitable for: KS2 pupils & teachers A useful site based on a book of the same title. Select 'Florence's Statistics' to see a pie chart which Florence drew up to indicate the main causes of death in the military hospital (she is credited with inventing the pie chart). |
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| Bare Bones Guide to English | Here you have a list of the bare essentials of grammar | |
| Barney | Everybodies favourite purple dinosaur, now has his own website. | |
| BBC History | Aimed at: everyone The BBC's site tends to concentrate on point-and-click interactivity and multimedia rather than classroom materials, but the result is highly entertaining. The Battle of Hastings and Waterloo games, in particular, are fun with great sound effects. |
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| Becta - Home School Links | The capacity of ICT potentially adds a new dimension to home school relationships. The following section provides examples of a range of various models, using a number of technologies for accessing a variety of content. This represents a limited 'snapshot' for information purposes only and does not include all possibilities. | |
| Bergsbyskolan | A countryside school in the North of Sweden. A nice site containing fairy tales, the Vikings etc. |
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| Bible Colouring Pages | Lots of RE colouring pictures . | |
| Blurring the Boundaries | Teletubbies and Children?s Media Today | |
| Bob the Builder | An excellent site-keep happy children of all ages while they learn | |
| Book Review Handout | An excellent guide to writing book reviews | |
| Brainpop | BrainPOP is the leading producer of educational animated movies for K-12. The company creates original animated movies to explain concepts in a voice and visual style that is accessible, educational and entertaining for both children and adults. | |
| British Library | Use this site to search our catalogues, order items for research, view exhibitions and link to information resources worldwide. The British Library is the UK's leading research library. Our galleries are open to all, seven days a week. | |
| Browse Control | Restrict/Control Student Internet Access | |
| Bullying Online | Suitable for KS1/2 teachers & KS2 pupils Substantial site offers practical advice, tips from former bullies, ideas for combating bullying and help for school projects on the subject. The details on racist bullying could be topical in many schools, given the international situation. |
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| Celtic Myth and Legends | Stories of Celtic Myths and Legends | |
| Children of the Earth | Suitable for KS1 & 2 teachers & pupils Carries several features suitable for teachers' research but its best aspect is a set of multimedia presentations, with a commentary and colour cartoons. Recycling, rainforests, deforestation and global warming are all included. Thinkquest |
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| Children's Literature Web Guide | Children's Writings | |
| Circle Time | Suitable for KS1/2 teachers Jenny Mosley's site shows how Quality Circle Time can incorporate a positive behaviour-management system with personal and social education. The FAQ section answers many questions and provides contact details for arranging a training course. The site reminds us that Circle Time shouldn't be initiated only if there is a problem |
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| Citezenship Education:The Global Dimension | The portal site for teachers and educators keen to explore the global dimension of Citizenship education. | |
| Citizenship Foundation | The Citizenship Foundation is an independent charity working to promote more effective citizenship through education about the law, democracy and society. Founded in 1989, it encourages....... |
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| Clicker Grids | A fantastic resource for Clicker users... | |
| Coalition for Community Schools | An American PDF. document, long but worth a look. | |
| Complete List of Spelling Rules for Nouns and Verbs | Understanding the spelling rules of English can be a daunting task for students, but there are rules which can assist the struggling speller in improving her or his skills. Two large categories which can be troublesome are rules for irregular plural formation of nouns and rules for spelling changes when verb inflections are added. Following you will find a list of rules for irregular plural formation of nouns, a list of irregular nouns showing singular and plural, and a list of rules for irregular spelling of verb inflections. |
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| Cool Music Site | This is a great music site for children...definitely worth a visit. | |
| Count On | A great site with much too see and do for all Primary age children. | |
| Country Joe McDonald | This unlikely source - Country Joe McDonald's tribute to Florence Nightingale - is one of the best sites on the subject, with well illustrated chronological details of Nightingale's life. See also links to more details of the Crimean war including a good map of where the Crimea is | |
| Crockers Estate Agent | Mr Crocker kindly sponsered our football team last year...please have a look at the Crockers Website | |
| Culture-Positive or Negative | Is your schools culture, positive or negative. | |
| DFES | Early Literacy Support Programme: materials for teachers working in partnership with teaching assistants | |
| DFES | The official document from the DFES website | |
| DFES Healthy Schools | Schools are one of the key settings in which to promote the health of young people and the wider community. Pupils can fulfil their potential only when they are healthy, happy and at ease in all areas of their lives | |
| Document | A document covering the use of ICT across the curriculum | |
| Early Years | The Importance of Talk in the Early Years. | |
| Eday School | An interesting insight into this small Orkney Isles School. | |
| Education World | Education World's goal is to make it easy for educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom. With 98 percent of the nation's public schools connected to the Internet, the need for a complete online educational guide is evident. | |
| ENGLISH RESOURCES | Word and sentence level resources..very useful | |
| Equal Opportunites Links | Great equal opportunities links. | |
| Ethics and Moral Issues | Ethics and Moral Issues | |
| Even More Science Resources | Grouping and Classifying Materials, Changing Materials and Separating Mixtures of Materials....really good resources. | |
| Fan Numbers | An excellent article on how useful, and how to use fan numbers. | |
| Font Freak | Welcome to FontFreak.com, one of the largest free-/shareware font archive on the net. Here you will find free fonts from over 300 different authors. | |
| Foundation Stage, Pupil profile | A very useful Foundation Stage Pupil Profile proforma. | |
| Free Education Resources | Need we say more...its free and growing all the time. | |
| Free educational programs | As a Primary school teacher and the ICT co-ordinator (Newland St. John's C. E. Primary in Hull, U.K.) I have spent many hours searching the internet for useful free programs to help children with their educational progress while still having fun. Many of these are installed and run successfully on our RM Connect 2.4 network. The links you see will, hopefully, take you to interesting sites that will allow you to enjoy the good programs that I have found | |
| Free Sheet Music | Need we say more :-) | |
| Fruit and Veg | Aimed at: everyone An excitable site encouraging visitors to obtain their five portions of fruit and vegetable each day. The encyclopaedia, story books, songs and colouring book are all absorbing, and would probably entertain key stage 2 pupils. |
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| Fun Fun Fun Maths | Some really nice, online maths activities | |
| Fun Geography Sites | Fun Geography Sites for Primary age children. | |
| Fun History Links | Fun History Links for Primary age children.... Includes an excellent Roman webquest. |
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| Fun Maths sites | Fun numeracy sites for Primary age children. | |
| Fun Online Numeracy Games | Some excellent online games from the Toftwood Infant School website. | |
| Fun Science | Some nice Science experiments for children to try. | |
| Fun Science Sites | Fun Science Sites for Primary school children. | |
| fun site for preschool | - fun site for preschool and elementary kids with weekly cartoons, jokes, flash cards, abcs, puzzles, games, and more! | |
| Fun with Spot | A great website with Spot the Dog | |
| Funny Poems | Funny Poems and Children's Poetry from childrens' author Robert Pottle | |
| Funology-The Science of Having Fun | Funology.com is the best place on the Web to find things to do. Not just while you?re sitting at the computer, but anywhere. | |
| Funschool | An excellent Website with many fun, educational games. | |
| Geography 4 Kids | A great Geography site. | |
| Governor Net | Information for School Governors | |
| Great Freeware | Superb educational freeware site. | |
| Grimm Fairy Tales | GrimmFairyTales: Folk and fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. Read and hear interactive, narrated, animated stories. Children's literature and folklore classics featuring animals, princesses, magic, and fabulous creatures! Grimm Brothers cartoon characters present a biography of Jacob Ludwig Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm. Online books link to e-learning, colouring downloads, arts, flash games, and other kidstuff. | |
| Harvard Citation and Referencing Guide | A very concise guide, covering various forms of referencing...excellent | |
| Harvard System of Referencing | An excellent guide, which can be downloaded as a Word document from this site. | |
| History on the Net | The aim of this site is to provide historical information linked to the English National Curriculum, for teachers, pupils, parents and anyone who wishes to further their historical knowledge. | |
| home.freeuk.com/elloughton13/ | Snaith Primary Schools' website - excellent and very educational. | |
| Hugo Meynell School | Another great site, even includes tips from the webmaster on designing your own site. | |
| ICT Course | A useful online IT Course, covering Hardware, Software, Languages etc.. | |
| ICT Records | A superb ICT record sheet for use up to Year 6. | |
| ICT Resources | Lots of ICT resources from Southampton University | |
| ICT Training for Teachers | A super resource. The use of generic ICT resources | |
| ICT Tutorials | Some fantastic tutorials in PDF. and Word form, covering Publisher, search engines, Excel and much much more ****** | |
| Icteacher.co.uk | Good resource for teachers and parents - take a look | |
| Ideas for Control | A few ideas for Primary control | |
| Institute for Play | The Institute for Play website... | |
| Integration of Children With Severe Learning Difficulties | Integration of Children With Severe Learning Difficulties (SLD): Unrealistic Expectation or a Step Towards Inclusion? | |
| Internet Resources for Special Children | An exhaustive links page for all Special Needs related matters | |
| It Record | A simple record sheet, for pupils to complete. | |
| Ithaki childrens Meta Search Engine | ithaki.net is a powerful and innovative internet metasearch engine. Ithaki 4 KIDS finds results in the best search engines for kids simultaneously, then removes the duplicates, ranks the results and shows them in one page. If you search the web with Ithaki you'll be searching Google, Yahoo, Wisenut, Teoma, Open Directory, Alltheweb, Altavista, Hotbot and Webcrawler. No other metasearch engine offers you such an excellent selection of internet search tools. |
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| Kids Health | Welcome to KidsHealth! KidsHealth is the largest and most visited site on the Web providing doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence. | |
| Kids News | kidnews.com is a free news and writing service for students and teachers from around the globe and has published thousands of young authors from every continent (except Antartica)! Anyone may submit whether a review, journalism piece, short story, poem, sports critique, real life accounts, opinions, or advice to fellow kids. Every submission, just like at a publishing house, is edited and reviewed for content and language before being posted. | |
| Kidsclick | Backed by librarians, KidsClick lists about 5,000 web sites in various categories. | |
| Kinetic | A great website promoting healthy eating and bodies | |
| King Arthur and the Magic Sword | A cartoon adaption of King Arthur and the Magic Sword. | |
| Lighthouse for Education-Foundation Keystage | This is the main page for Foundation Stage on The Lighthouse for Education |
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| Listen and Write Poetry | Writing activities, audio poems, a gallery of children's work and much, much more! | |
| Lists of Grammar Lists | This site provides lists of grammar items for use by ESL/EFL teachers. These lists have been prepared by ESL/EFL teachers to share with colleagues. | |
| Local Government | by promoting schools for the community which play a full role in their local communities, by working with partners in providing services, expanding learning opportunities and promoting citizenship. | |
| lots of games to play | A greatsite for keeping children and adults quiet. | |
| Lower Park School | Useful Websites-English | |
| Mad Science | An excellent Science site, with fun and games. | |
| Making Good Citizens | How does a primary school go about turning its pupils into good and active citizens, when many of them have probably never even heard the word before? If the question leaves you feeling bemused, then rest assured: citizenship........... | |
| Managing ICT | Useful downloads and FREE utilities | |
| Managing ICT | Lots of useful links | |
| Map Zone | MapZone is about having fun with maps, finding cool places to visit and telling others about them so they can visit too. MapZone has games to play, prizes to win, free goodies and homework help. | |
| Mape | Supporting effective use of ICT in the Primary School | |
| More Free Gifs. | Loads of free animations | |
| More Science Resources | Humans and other animals, Green plants and Variation and Classification | |
| Mr Men | The official Mr Men website...great!!!! | |
| Must Visit!!!! | The one stop site for busy teachers. | |
| National Geographic | The National Geographic site for children...great | |
| NatureGrid | An excellent site. | |
| Nettlesworth Primary School | Includes a very useful section on Primary History. | |
| NSDC | The National Staff Development Council (NSDC) is the largest non-profit professional association committed to ensuring success for all students through staff development and school improvement. | |
| Nutrition Foundation | Aimed at: everyone The British Nutrition Foundation's education section includes food posters and guidance on A-level and Scottish food technology syllabi. The A-level section also has an excellent list of links its information on different foodstuffs would be very useful in class |
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| Online Ideas | Lots of ideas for Primary and Trainee teachers | |
| Oxford Journals | Oxford Online Journals | |
| Parent Centre | The Parent Centre is the official Department for Education and Skills (DfES) website for parents and carers. We aim to act as a reference book about the education system, as well as directing parents to other sources of information and advice. The Parent Centre has links to relevant websites..... |
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| PBS Kids | A great general resource with lots to see and do. A Top Site ******* |
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| Pitara | Some excellent poems from this American website. | |
| Postman Pat | An excellent site containing many fun and educational activities | |
| Praying Each Day | A host of prayers, plus a very good RE search engine. | |
| Pre School resources | Click on the preschool link below and arts & crafts to find many ideas to use in your work. Your preschool curriculum will benefit from the many ideas posted here. | |
| Pre School Resources | This website is dedicated to Pre-K teachers (just like me). I'm not an expert in Early Childhood Education by any stretch and I don't pretend to be. My goal, simply, is to share ideas I've used or wanted to use in the classroom and to provide a place where my peers can share their ideas as well. I've also tried to make my website a fun place to visit through the use of graphics that reflect a 'kids and cats' theme. | |
| Racism in Schools | A superb Australian website, looking at racism in schools, offers games, resources, activities... | |
| RE:Glossary of Terms | A PDF. file so Acrobat Reader needed | |
| Recycling | Suitable for KS2 teachers Offers helpful lesson ideas aimed at juniors. Also carries a survey on recycling habits, which can be printed out, providing useful data and plenty of lively discussion points. |
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| Resources | A wealth of resources. | |
| Rhyming Dictionary | Type in a word to find the meaning, synonym, rhyme and more | |
| Road Safety | Play games and try different activities, at the hedgehog road safety website. | |
| Rqual Opportunities Policy | An excellent example of an equal opportunities policy... | |
| School Assemblies for Busy Teachers | This is a site where teachers can freely download and submit assembly ideas, scripts and links. | |
| School Culture | WHAT IS SCHOOL CULTURE? | |
| School Culture 2 | The School Culture | |
| School History | A fantastic website for schools...a must have website. | |
| Schools History | Aimed at older children, but still a very good resource. | |
| Science 4 Kids | A great Science site. | |
| Science Resources | Assesment / Planning Sheets / Scientific Enquiry.... | |
| Scottish Schools Ethos Network | The Scottish Schools Ethos Network is a Scottish Executive funded project which aims to promote the importance of developing a positive school ethos | |
| Sea and Sky | Sea and Sky is a non-profit Web site created for the sole purpose of bringing the splendors of the seas and the wonders of the universe to members of the internet community..great | |
| Sir Robert Hitchams Primary School | Some excellent links, especially the webhunts.. | |
| Snaith Primary School | A superb site, just visit !!!!!! | |
| Songs for Children Theme Page | This Theme Page has links to Internet sources of Songs for Children. At these sites, you'll find the lyrics to songs that are popular with children. In some cases, there will also be downloadable sound files and occasionally you'll also have access to the musical score. Search engines which allow you to find songs by artist or by key word are also common. | |
| Special Education Resources on the Internet | Special Education Resources on the Internet (SERI) is a collection of Internet accessible information resources of interest to those involved in the fields related to Special Education. This collection exists in order to make on-line Special Education resources more easily and readily available in one location. This site will continually modify, update, and add additional informative links. | |
| Special Needs Resources | Resources, freeware downloads, links and documents for those involved in the education of pupils with learning difficulties, autism and other special educational needs | |
| Spelling | Various strategies used to learn to spell difficult words. | |
| SpotPages | ICT Teaching activities, teaching ideas and suggestions for Early Years and KS1 | |
| Super Fonts | A great fonts section, will liven up any display board | |
| Superb | Site with games and stories for Early Years children. | |
| Superb children games | Some fantastic online childrens games.....don't miss this site | |
| Teaching Ideas | An excellent site, constantly updated with resources for teachers. | |
| The Assemblies Website | ...providing instant assembly materials for primary schools. |
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| The Big Bus | Great for early years children | |
| The Children Literature Web Guide | Children's Story Collections | |
| The Environment Agency | Suitable for KS1 teachers, KS2 teachers & pupils Includes flooding advice, flood warning codes and new flood plain maps plus an education section with numeracy and literacy pages. The numeracy material comprises worksheets aimed at levels 2 to 4 with well-defined objectives. Fiction and non-fiction books, with an enviromental theme, are suggested in the literacy section |
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| The Growing Schools Garden | The Growing Schools Garden; a route to learning, was first unveiled at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show in July 2002....... | |
| The Impact of Televised Viol... | A report by John Murray | |
| Think you know | Lots of info on safe surfing/chatting etc. on the internet | |
| Ti-Lung Education | Some excellent educational resources...definitely worth a look. | |
| Tudor History | A superb resource for everything Tudor... | |
| Tudor Times | Nettlesworth Primary Schools excellent Tudor website. | |
| Tudor Web | Key Stage 2 have been visiting the Tudor Gallery in the Ipswich Museum, Christchurch Mansion, and the castle at Framlingham to support their work on the Tudors. Click below to see what we found out,,,, | |
| Violence on Television - What do Children Learn? What Can Parents Do? | Violent programs on television lead to aggressive behavior by children and teenagers who watch those programs. That's the word from a 1982 report by the National Institute of Mental Health, a report that confirmed and extended an earlier ..... |
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| Vowels and Consenants | Guide the rat to collect the vowels and avoid the consenants...great fun!!!!! | |
| Warm Ups | Warm up activities for teachers. | |
| Web filtering Software | An excellent FREE web filtering programme. | |
| Welcome to Frustrated Teachers | Our mission is simple: to provide teachers with effective solutions to the problems and frustrations they face. | |
| Wicked 4 Kids | A superb, fun childrens website.... | |
| Woodlands Games | Both fun and educational games, to play at this great site. | |
| Write a book review | Welcome to my workshop! Here you'll find writing tips, strategies, and challenges to help you write a book review. Once you've completed my challenges, try writing and publishing a review of your own | |
| Writing 101 | The definitive source for writing on the web | |
| www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc | THe superb BBC online website.Good for adults and children | |
| www.driverguide.com | Any drivers needed for printers, sound cards etc. can be found here.Very useful | |
| www.eduweb.co.uk | Internet Service Provider used by many schools - has some nice links and work ideas for children. | |
| www.help.ik.com | This web site provides online help. | |
| www.homeworkhigh.com | A great site provided by channel4. Answers from teachers to your homework questions ! | |
| www.howstuffworks.com | 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. | |
| www.ik.com | The web's premier supplier of quality build your own web sites for all sizes of business. | |
| www.kidsdomain.co.uk | Another excellent child friendly search engine. Information for teachers and parents included on the site. | |
| www.parents.dfee.gov.uk | A resource for parents to find out about education today. Find out how your child is taught, how they are tested, how schools are monitored and lots more. | |
| www.safekids.com/search.htm | Children friendly search engines listed here. | |
| www.schools.ik.com | The place to go for your FREE educational web site. | |
| www.yahooligans.com | An excellent child friendly seatch engine with some excellent Pokemon websites. | |
| Yahoo Educational Journals | A huge resource of educational journals. | |
| Yahooligans | Yahoo for kids, designed for ages 7 to 12. Sites are hand-picked to be appropriate for children. Also, unlike normal Yahoo, searches will not bring back matched found by crawling the web, if there is no match from within the Yahooligan listings. This prevents possibly objectionable sites from slipping onto the screen. Additionally, adult-oriented banner advertising will not appear within the service. Yahooligans is the oldest major directory for children, launched in March 1996. | |
| Yucky Kids | The Yuckiest site on the net 4 kids. | |