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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

Heritage England Teaching Resources

Historic England offer a wide range of readymade free online learning resources for teachers. You can also search over 10,000 Educational Images, specially selected and re-captioned from their archive.

5-18 year olds
Teachers

Teach Your Monster to Read

A free game for young children to practise the first steps of reading. The game is built on the principles of synthetic phonics and follows the teaching sequence of the Letters and Sounds programme.

5-7 year olds
Teachers, Pupils, Parents

LifeSkills

LifeSkills, created with Barclays, is a free, curriculum-linked programme designed to give young people in the UK access to the skills, information and opportunities they need to help them towards getting the jobs they want.

14-16 year olds
Teachers, Pupils, Parents

Students' Guide to Chemistry Freeware

This is a website intended to help undergraduate and beginning graduate students find the free software they need for common chemical tasks.

18 year olds
Pupils

Q-Files

Q-files is a subscription based online encyclopedia specially designed and written for children. It is also advert free and regularly updated.

7-13 year olds
Pupils

Bloodhound SSC Education Programme

The BLOODHOUND engineering adventure provides inspiration for the next generation of scientists and engineers. The BLOODHOUND Education Programme is available to all pupils in primary and secondary schools. Register for free access to the materials.

9-18 year olds
Teachers

Duolingo

Wow! Fancy learning a language for free? Look no further than Duolingo which offers lessons in over 40 different languages. Lessons feel like games where success is rewarded with points. Fantastic.

11-18 year olds
Teachers, Pupils, Parents

Sight Words

Free resources designed to help parents teach their child to read. The learning materials can be used in the home or classroom. Includes lessons and instructional videos. Well worth a look!

3-7 year olds
Teachers, Parents

Ten Pieces

Ten Pieces aims to open up the world of classical music to children – and inspire them to develop their own creative responses to the pieces. Why not send for the free DVD and get involved at your school?

7-18 year olds
Teachers
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