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.
Dienes and Coins
Useful place value teaching resources for use on an interactive whiteboard. They cover hundreds, tens and ones and UK money. With some you will need to drag the Dienes blocks to represent the number you want. Please note the decimals section is faulty.
Higher and Lower
How good are you at ordering numbers? Lots of examples to try from simple ordering numbers to 10 to fractions, decimals or negative and positive numbers.
Snorts and Crosses
A Peppa Pig version of the Noughts and Crosses game. It is a two player game where you need to make a line with either the Peppa Pig or Daddy Pig characters.
GCSE Bitesize - Physics
Test your knowledge on the Space Physics, Electricity, Magnetism and Electromagnetism, Energy, Forces, Waves and Atomic Structure in preparation for your GCSE Physics examination.
Our Dynamic Earth
Dynamic Earth science centre in Edinburgh delivers a portfolio of 30 Curriculum for Excellence and Learning for Sustainability linked workshop experiences in indoor, outdoor and online settings.
Number Rack
A fantastic abacus type resource of moveable, coloured beads that encourage learners to think in groups of fives and tens. It can help children to explore a variety of addition and subtraction strategies. Great IWB teaching tool.
Letter Planet
Fill up the rocket with fuel by choosing the words that have 'sh', 'ch' or 'th' in them.
TES Resources
If you are a teaching professional you may like to checkout the TES teachers' resource area which has more than 44,000 teacher created resources all free to download. They cover a vast range of subjects and all age groups.
Guide to Starting Secondary School
Help your child to make a confident transition to secondary school by Topmarks.
