Coins in the Classroom

Explore the world of coins, their history, design and manufactures. Each lesson pack, designed for classrooms in England and Wales, comes complete with teachers’ notes, lesson plans, fact files, worksheets and whiteboard resource.

Syllables Factory Game

Work out how many syllables each word has coming through the machine.

The Fuse School

A growing range of free secondary age group teaching videos on maths, biology, physics, chemistry, English, Business and Information Technology. The functional maths section is also suitable for primary pupils.

Comic Book Edit

Edit the comic book adventure called Bushfire to make the story more interesting. Choose a conclusion for the story and then improve the grammar by looking changing nouns to pronouns, by adding adverbs and choosing saying verbs.

Find Beginning Letters with Words and Pictures

Di is an artist who paints phrases. Help her paint three pictures by matching words that begin with the same two consonants. Select two words that begin with the same letter pattern, such as 'sheep' and 'shoe'.

60 Second Recap Study Guides

A study guides site which has interesting videos called 'Recaps' on classic literature which will appeal to young people. There are also book reviews aimed at a teens audience.

National Poetry Day

Although suitable for any time of year, you can explore this site for ideas to celebrate National Poetry Day with poetry in school. It features Toolkit for Schools and downloadable teaching resources.

www.englishbiz.co.uk

A straightforward site which focuses on helping you to achieve higher grades in English and English Literature GCSE exams. You are also invited to send in questions.

CBeebies

Fun, games and colouring from children's BBC. Young children will recognise their favourite characters. The games are great fun and they can help your child learn.

Starfall Art Gallery

A delightful site for Key Stage 1 pupils about six famous artists and their work. It also promotes reading skills. There are literacy exercises. A good non-fiction text. More detailed biographies for Key Stage 2 pupils.