Cool Apps for Schools
A great site which features excellent educational apps for the primary age range, across the curriculum. The reviews can help you choose apps for home or school. Many are free too!
The Spanish Experiment
Free introductory Spanish lessons for beginners and children's stories in Spanish. They could be used for younger children with adult support.
Bug Catcher
See if you can guess whether there are more bugs of one colour than another. Then catch the bugs to see if you were right before setting them free.
Nuffield Science
This site from the Nuffield Foundation features free teaching and learning resources for teaching AQA and OCR A2 Applied Science.
Map Reading Skills for Children
Top ideas and tips on how to promote children's interest in reading maps. It includes free downloadable activity cards.
Project Gutenberg
A library of 20,000 free online books. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online.
Nuffield Primary Design and Technology
Great design and technology teaching units which include lesson by lesson teaching guidance, a listing of new vocabulary, a description of links to other subjects and full details of resource requirements. Free to register on the site.
Oxford Reading Tree
Details of Oxford Reading Tree resources together with free teacher support materials.
Food a Fact of Life
The website is a comprehensive education programme which communicates up-to-date, evidence-based, messages around ‘food’ to all those involved in education. The are excellent free lesson plans and printable or presentation resources to support teachers.
Bookstart
Bookstart is a UK programme which encourages parents and carers to enjoy books with children. Find out about free packs of books and download colourful songsheets which have songs and rhymes to share with your child.
