Women on the Home Front in World War One
World War One provided new employment opportunities for women. This site from the BBC exams the enduring impact of the war on women's lives.
Starfall Art Gallery
A delightful site for Key Stage 1 pupils about six famous artists and their work. It also promotes reading skills. There are literacy exercises. A good non-fiction text. More detailed biographies for Key Stage 2 pupils.
Placing Numbers on a Number Line
A versatile number line that can be used at many different levels beginning at numbers 1 to 10 up to fractions, decimals and negative numbers. Place numbers on a number line and see how close you can get.
ITP Coordinates
This resource from Mathsframe allows you to use a marker to identify the coordinates of points on different grids. You can mark points and draw lines and shapes in either 1, 2 or 4 quadrants.
Fractions
A great teaching tool for fractions. Use a bar or circle to represent, compare, and perform operations with fractions with denominators from 1 to 100. Reveal or hide numeric labels as needed.
Solids, Liquids & Gases
The site has excellent YouTube animations and an interactive quiz about solids, liquids and gases which are ideal for Key Stage 1.
eHomework
This site has over 80 articles which focus on helping parents to help their children with homework from Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 4. The articles cover a wide range of topics.
Recycle Now
A great site packed with information, ideas and resources to encourage us to recycle. It has facts about how different materials are recycled including videos and animations. The text is hard for Key Stage 1 but the videos and teaching ideas are useful.
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
An abridgement by the BBC of Michael Morpurgo's moving story about a soldier called Thomas "Tommo" Peaceful, who is looking back on his life from the trenches of World War 1. It underlines the senselessness of war.
Flip Counter
A brilliant counting tool which displays numbers up to 99.999. It is excellent for demonstrating 1 more or less, 10 more or less or 100 more or less. It is also useful as a place value tool and there is an optional decimal point.
