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Audacity

Download this free open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is useful for recording sounds including speech for use on an interactive whiteboard.

5-16 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Food a Fact of Life

Free resources for teaching young people aged 3-16 years about where food comes from, cooking and healthy eating.

3-16 year olds
Pupils

Kitchen Chemistry Science Experiments

A subscription site with simple experiments to try at home or in school. All have step-by-step instructions. There are 150 free experiments to try.

5-11 year olds
Teachers, Parents

CAFOD Teaching Resources

A selection of teaching resources including primary school assembly ideas which focus on the needs of the developing world, worksheets, factsheets and activities.

5-11 year olds
Teachers

Project Gutenberg

A library of 20,000 free online books. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online.

14-18 year olds
Teachers, Pupils, Parents

Nuffield Primary Design and Technology

Great design and technology teaching units which include lesson by lesson teaching guidance, a listing of new vocabulary, a description of links to other subjects and full details of resource requirements. Free to register on the site.

5-11 year olds
Teachers

Oxford Reading Tree

Details of Oxford Reading Tree resources together with free teacher support materials.

5-11 year olds
Teachers

Food a Fact of Life

The website is a comprehensive education programme which communicates up-to-date, evidence-based, messages around ‘food’ to all those involved in education. The are excellent free lesson plans and printable or presentation resources to support teachers.

3-14 year olds
Teachers

SymbolWorld

SymbolWorld is dedicated to people who use symbols. It has material for all ages including stories, news items and learning materials. Download free symbol resources too. SymbolWorld is speech enabled with Browsealoud.

7-16 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Storynory

Free audio books, including classic fairy tales, myths, verse, Bible stories and original stories for children. Download mp3 files, burn to CD, subscribe to kids' podcast. The only downside is that there is advertising at the end of the stories.

5-11 year olds
Pupils
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