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Bottle Take Away

This site is based on the 10 green bottles rhyme, however you can display up to 21 bottles. It is excellent for children who are working on counting backwards and in particular 'one less' than a particular number.

4-5 year olds
Pupils

Moving Digit Cards

A place value teaching aid. It demonstrates the effect of multiplying and dividing whole or decimal numbers by 10, 100 or 1000. There is also a practise area for students to test their skills.

7-12 year olds
Teachers

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

Guide to Starting Secondary School

Help your child to make a confident transition to secondary school by Topmarks.

7-14 year olds
Parents

Plant Growth, Development and Response to the Environment

A narrated animation which demonstrates how plants respond to light and gravity.

14-16 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Countdown

A great mental maths challenge where you need to use the numbers available and the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) to hit the target. The game does not check your solution. Works well on IWB.

7-14 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Number Spinners

This resource from Mathsframe generates random numbers using ‘spinners’ with 3, 4, 5 or 6 sides. Up to three spinners can be used in many ways, such as generating addition, multiplication or up to three digit numbers.

5-11 year olds
Teachers

Number Rack

A fantastic abacus type resource of moveable, coloured beads that encourage learners to think in groups of fives and tens. It can help children to explore a variety of addition and subtraction strategies. Great IWB teaching tool.

5-9 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

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
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