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The First 1000 Most Commonly Used English Words

A simple site which has a list of the first thousand commonly used words arranged in order of common usage. If you are trying to improve your spelling skills it is a useful reference tool.

7-14 year olds
Teachers, Parents

Crystal Crash

An addictive find fractions of numbers game where you throw the pickaxe at the correct answer. Different levels including find half of up to 20, 40 or 100, find unit fractions of number, or multiples of 1/10 of numbers. Super homework activity.

7-11 year olds
Pupils

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

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

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

ITP Place Value

This resource displays on-screen place value cards to construct and partition three-digit whole numbers.

6-8 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Addition and Subtraction Ladder

Try the simple addition and subtraction sums to build your ladder. The examples include missing numbers or addends.

5-6 year olds
Pupils

Fraction Circles

This teaching tool helps with the recognition of fraction relationships. It helps students to visualise fractions, understand denominators, equivalent fractions and mixed numbers.

6-11 year olds
Teachers

Fraction Finder

A teacher tool which is useful for demonstrating how to find a fraction of a number.

7-9 year olds
Teachers, Pupils
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