Lion Dance
Read about the symbolism and meaning behind traditional Chinese lion dance and watch a movie clip of a performance in action.
Ash Wednesday
Read about the religious traditions of Ash Wednesday which is the first day of Lent in Christian churches in the UK.
ReadWorks.org
An excellent American site with good lesson ideas and materials aimed at improving reading comprehension teaching throughout the primary age range. It is well worth registering.
Adding Time Word Problems
Word problems where you need to read the time on either an analogue or digital clock and then answer a word problem involving adding a given time.
Monty's Maths Wall
A good game for practising a wide range of mathematical skills including multiplication, addition, reading numbers, subtraction, fractions of numbers, division, decimals and percentages and simplifying fractions and more.
Alien Attack
Use your knowledge of angles in this game where you defend the Earth from aliens. You can either estimate the angles or read them from a protractor.
The Children's Poetry Archive
A superb selection of poems arranged by themes, style or author. You can listen to an audio track of each poem being read by the author.
Phonics Bloom
Phonics Bloom create interactive online phonics games to help teach children the relationship between letters and sounds and develop the skills needed to read and write.
Sound Sayer
A teaching tool to support whole-class or small groups with phonics teaching. It can support parents too when they are helping their child with reading at home.
Microeconomics
An American online text book which has chapters on key economics topics such as supply and demand, and monopolies.