Growing Up in the Second World War
The Second World War was a time of major upheaval for children in Britain with over a million evacuated from towns and cities. Here are 11 ways children were affected by the Second World War.
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.
The Array
Create and solve easy multiplications such as 9 x 3. Examine relationships between rows, columns and areas in arrays. A useful teaching resource to demonstrate multiplications on an IWB.
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.
Coconut Multiples
Coconut Multiples can reinforce children's knowledge of times tables by helping them to recognise the multiples from each table. Select either multiples from times tables up to 10 or 12.
High Frequency Words - Spin the Wheel
Spin the wheel to see how many high frequency words you can read. This is great for a lesson starter 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.
Fishy Times Tables
A clever interactive which demonstrates times tables up to 10 x 10. It is useful for showing the commutative law of multiplication which means you can multiply numbers in any order and the answer is the same.
Burgh Life in Mary's Time
Find out about life in a Scottish burgh was like in the 16th Century, in the time of Mary Queen of Scots. Relates to the Scottish curriculum.
Numbers to Words Fruit Splat
Match numbers to the fruits to the target number words. There are four levels of difficulty: 1-10, 1-20, 1-100 and 1-1000.
