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Words for Life

Words for Life’s aim is to inspire more people to read, more regularly, for both pleasure and personal advancement. Useful booklists especially chosen to appeal to less confident readers. Free resources matched to books.

3-11 year olds
Parents

Brackets - Order of Operations

Use a calculator to carry out calculations with more than one step using brackets. Suitable for use on an interactive whiteboard.

11-14 year olds
Teachers

Poop Deck Pirates

A phonics game which can help you to build words. Read the words and decide if they are real words or not. The game links to phases 3, 4 and 5 of the 'Letters and Sounds' programme. It works well on an interactive whiteboard.

5-7 year olds
Pupils

Balloon Phonics

Balloon Phonics is a game which focuses on three letter words (cvc). There are three game modes: Initial sounds, Middle sounds and End sounds. Appropriate for Phase 2 Letters and Sounds.

4-6 year olds
Teachers, Pupils, Parents

Phoneme Pop

Based on 'Letters and Sounds' this game supports phoneme - grapheme correspondence. Great if your child is learning his or her letter sounds.

3-7 year olds
Pupils

IXL

A subscription maths practice site for reception to year 10, for schools or the home. Activities are matched to the National Curriculum and the site provides pupil tracking.

3-14 year olds
Teachers, Pupils, Parents

A Beginner's Guide to the Anglican Church

Although this site is from New Zealand it explains what goes on inside an Anglican Church and what Christians believe.

11-16 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Beginners' Guide to Using a Compass.

A step by step guide on how to use a compass with an Ordnance Survey map.

11-16 year olds
Pupils

Find the Start Time

A maths game where you need to find the start time after a given time interval. Find the correct time on an analogue or digital clock. Lots of choice of level, including: subtracting 1 hour, multiples of 5, or 10 minutes and more.

7-11 year olds
Teachers

Shark Numbers

A hundreds, tens and units maths game. Count carefully otherwise the shark will bite your boat.

5-7 year olds
Pupils
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