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!
Hit the Button Maths App
App version of our popular Hit the Button game. Available on iPad, Android, Windows and Mac. Topics include number bonds, times tables, division, doubling, halving and square numbers. Covers up to 12 x tables.
Apps for Good
A creative programme where young people have fun while learning. Teachers act as their guides, connecting them to developers and experts outside school. The programme allows students to research, design and make digital products and take them to market.
Horrible Histories - Raid and Trade
Take charge of settlements in order to protect and guide Viking villagers to victory in battle and learn about Viking life along the way.
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.
The Fair Trade Foundation
Read about the campaign to ensure that farmers in third world countries get a fair price for their produce.
The Whiteboard Blog
The Whiteboard Blog is packed with great tips for using interactive whiteboards in the classroom.
Pattern Shapes
Try making patterns, tessellations or pictures with shapes. Explore geometry and fractions or investigate symmetry. Great for demonstrating protractors and measuring angles in shapes.
Number Frames
Number Frames help students structure numbers to five, ten, twenty, and one hundred. Useful as a teaching resource on an interactive whiteboard.
Focus on the Slave Trade
A BBC site which discusses the transatlantic slave trade.
