Activities to do at Home and Online
Downloadable activities from the Children's University site with ideas to support children's learning. They are ideal for summer holidays activities.
Using Salt to Melt Ice
An experiment which will fascinate children if you are working on freezing and melting in science. Catch an ice cube with a pinch of salt and string.
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.
Starfall - Learn to Read
A good learning to read site. There are good quality games and animated stories which children can interact with. The children can click on words to see what they say. Excellent for learning the sounds the letters make.
Chance to Shine
Chance to Shine has created a bank of free resources to help teachers lead cricket sessions with confidence. These include lesson plans for coaching sessions, instructional videos for all the skills and drills and tips from the professionals.
Fruit Splat Fraction Addition
Splat the fruit in this fractions addition game. There are six levels of difficulty.
Help a Hedgehog
A super read the word challenge game which can help you with learning to read. Read as many words as you can that are matched to Letters and Sounds Phases 2 and 3 or enter your own words.The game helps with decoding and blending words skills.
Sighties
A delightful game where you find the sight words. This game is based on the first 100 high frequency words used in reading and writing.
Plural Pirates
A useful spelling tutorial and game about adding s or es to a word to make it into a plural. It also covers plurals of words ending in y.
Verb Vikings
Play Verb Vikings for games and demonstrations on adding -ing and -ed to verbs which include when to double consonants.
