This section of the portal contains useful links to other school education websites and to websites which can help with your childs homework and education.

 

Design & Technology

How stuff works - A site jam packed full of useful information on how everything works including the INTERNET!

Geography

Rivers and Coasts.

Weather around the world

History

Ancient Greece - covers KS2 QCA History Units 14 and 15.

Anglo - Saxons - covers KS2 QCA History Unit 6B: An Anglo-Saxon case study.

Victorians - Children in Victorian Britain covers KS2 QCA History Unit 11.

The Rromans - Covers KS2 QCA History Unit 6A:A Roman case study.

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/vikings - Covers KS2 QCA History Unit 6C: A Viking case study.

Homework Help


Revisewise -
Activities designed to prepare children for KS2 National Tests.

Ask the teacher - A service for students from KS2, KS3, GCSE and AS/A2 Level to ask a teacher a question on homework, coursework or revision ( replies in 24 hours).

ICT

How stuff works - A site jam packed full of useful information on how everything works including the INTERNET!

Languages


French - eginners' French for 10-11 year olds. Content also relevant to KS2 QCA Units 1-6.

 

Literacy


The official Eric Carle website - features 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar ' and 'The Red Fox'.


The world of Beatrix Potter - tells us about the life of the author and the characters in her books.


DynaMo - Literacy, numeracy and science games, including Spellbound and Who's Spooking Who? Designed for home use.

Spell it - Covers the word and text objectives of year 3, 4 and 5 of the National Literacy Strategy.

 

Numeracy

Nrich maths - A really rich resource, for extending students, with new activities each month; use the Archive to find activities and solutions from previous months.

Digger - Digger and the Gang activities to support Year 3 and 4 of the National Strategies for Literacy and Numeracy, and KS1 and KS2 programmes of study.

Revisewise - Activities designed to prepare children for KS2 National Tests.

Science


Planet Science - Build your own planet? Click on this link and scroll down to 'Planet 10' (near bottom (Be patient while links load - it's worth the wait!)

Pods mission - Pod's Mission covers KS2 QCA Science Unit 4A: Moving and growing, Unit 4D:Solids, liquids and how they can be separated, and Unit 4F: Circuits and conductors. There is also a unit on bones. www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revisewise Activities designed to prepare children for KS2 National Tests.

 

Secondary subjects - Ages 11 - 16

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