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Open Very Carefully

Be careful reading this book. It is a book with a bite!

3-5 year olds
Teachers, Pupils, Parents

The Open University

Want to get a qualification that will help you develop or change your career? Then the Open University could be for you.

16-18 year olds
Teachers, Pupils, Parents

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.

5-16 year olds
Teachers, Pupils, Parents

OpenLearn

The Open University offers nearly 1000 free courses at different levels on a range of subjects.

17-18 year olds
Teachers, Pupils, Parents

Opendays.com - University and College Open Days

A searchable directory where you can find out open day information about the university or college of your choice in the UK. There are advice pages which includes completing UCAS forms and what questions to ask when you attend an open day.

16-18 year olds
Pupils

Teaching Clock

Teaching Clock is an open-ended teaching resource to help children explore telling the time in both analogue and digital formats. The digital clocks can be viewed in either 12-hour or 24-hour layout.

5-11 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Minecraft Education

Education Edition is an open-world game that promotes creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving in an immersive environment. Also learn to code in Minecraft.

3-16 year olds
Teachers

Google Earth

A truly amazing download which combines satellite imagery, maps and terrain to let you view the world's geography at the click of a mouse. Fly to your address or now you can even view the night sky. It can help children understand what a map view is.

5-18 year olds
Teachers, Pupils, Parents

Audacity

Download this free open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is useful for recording sounds including speech for use on an interactive whiteboard.

5-16 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Two-Colour Counters

An interactive where you can choose both red and yellow draggable counters. The use is open-ended but ideas include addition, difference, multiplication and division.

5-7 year olds
Teachers
Swallowtail Social - Social media training for small businesses