Teaching Library
Teaching Ideas has excellent free teaching suggestions and lesson resources linked to a selection of children's books and literature.
Your Chinese Zodiac Sign
With our Zodiac Sign checker you see what Chinese Zodiac sign you were born under. It is more accurate than checking just by year especially if you have a January or February birth date.
Make a Chinese Dragon
Here we show you how to make a brightly coloured Chinese Dragon in easy steps. Super activity for Chinese New Year topic.
The Learning Zone
Designed especially for children by Oxford University Museum of Natural History, there are lots of fun things to do and learn here. Sections include: Animals, Insects, Rocks, Fossils, Minerals, Funstuff.
Newspapers for Schools
The Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) offers two free services designed to make easy use of newspaper material in UK schools. One is a free licence which permits legal copying of news print and the other a PDF News Library.
Online Stopwatch and Timer
Set up this digital stopwatch or set the timer to count down the time. Works well on an interactive whiteboard.
The Literacy Shed
The Literacy Shed is home to a wealth of visual resources with teaching ideas suitable for use in the primary classroom. There are some fabulous animations to use as stimulus for writing.
Countdown
A great mental maths challenge where you need to use the numbers available and the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) to hit the target. The game does not check your solution. Works well on IWB.
World Stories
World Stories is a growing collection of stories from around the World. The collection includes retold traditional tales and new short stories in the 21 languages most spoken by UK children. Read or listen to the stories.
Dragon Dance
Read about the symbolism and meaning behind traditional Chinese dragon dance and watch a movie clip of a performance in action.
