Communicating Ideas

This website shows you how to design effective posters, newspapers and comics by going through the important elements of each. Later you can try out your own designs. A brilliant teaching tool which works really well on an interactive whiteboard.

The Children's Poetry Archive

A superb selection of poems arranged by themes, style or author. You can listen to an audio track of each poem being read by the author.

Teaching Ideas

Lots of brilliant lesson ideas, plans, activities and resources to use in the primary classroom.

Video to Support Teaching of Synthetic Phonics Phase 1

Video footage of a teacher demonstrating action songs and rhymes that help children to show an awareness of rhyme and alliteration.

Phonics Frog Word Dip

Designed for class use on an interactive whiteboard this phonics resource supports the learning and teaching of blending and segmenting for spelling new alternative phoneme - grapheme correspondences in cvc words.

Drama

There are practical ideas for a variety of activities such as acting, improvisation, mime and dance. The site includes video teaching demonstrations. A Northern Ireland site but the activities would work well anywhere.

Storybird

Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories that are fun to make, share, and read. Great for inspiring reluctant readers.

Alphablocks

Alphablocks from the BBC is aimed at four-to-six-year-olds who are learning to read. It is a fun way to learn your letters, both sounds and names. Each letter has been made into a little character.

Questionaut

A curious quest through magical lands. It will test your knowledge of English, maths and science. Your mission: to recover your friend's hat!

Oxford Owl

Oxford Owl is a free website built to help parents with their child’s reading. This is an excellent resource packed with free ebooks from the Oxford Reading Tree reading scheme, games and activities.