Primary Resources & Weblinks

Below is a list of websites you may find useful in helping to build on what your child has been learning at school.

Early Years

Ladybird - learning activities including animated nursery rhymes.

CBEEBIES - fun and games with all your favourite characters.

BBC Early Years Foundation Stage - thematic interactive games for the early years.

ICT Games - fun, computer-based and printable numeracy games.

Storynory - stories to download to your iPod or MP3 player. Storynory has published a new audio story every week since November 2005.

Peep and the Big Wide World - designed to help introduce basic science concepts to very young children. Includes a collection of interactive games and a huge collection of activities that parents can do with their children.

Big Eyed Owl - early years expreience. Sharing information and resources for young children.

Key Stage 1

BBC Wales Learning - supporting areas of the Welsh national curriculum at Primary level. Features Astro Antics where you will find stories, songs and games for young Welsh learners aged 5-7.

The Magic Key - reading and grammar activities following the characters children become familiar with in school.

Starfall - a free website to teach children to read with phonics. For preschool, kindergarten, and first grade. Exciting phonics games and online interactive books.

Key Stage 2

BBC Bitesize - a series of quickfire interactive games suited to different age groups. KS1 (Maths and Literacy), KS2+3 (English, Maths and Science).

Gridclub - educational activities, games and videos aimed at 5 to 12 year olds.

Secret Builders - a virtual world for children aged 5 to 14 years old powered by a web 2.0 community of children, parents, educators, writers, artists and gamers.

All Primary

The School Run - a parenting website for parents who care about their children's education, health and well-being. Along with information on Key Stage 1 to 3, you will also find a large library of parenting advice and free worksheets as well as other parenting resources to download. Plus win prizes in competitions and share your expertise in the Answers forum.

BBC Schools - a wealth of information relating to Primary Art, Citizenship, Geography, History, Languages, Literacy together with more than 7,500 video clips from BBC programmes on Learning Zone Class Clips.

Crickweb - interactive resources suitable for early years, KS1 and KS2.

Learning Planet - computer-based educational games to pass the time.

Topic Box - a free directory of over 2,000 educational websites, categorised into subjects. A great resource for parents looking for ways to help their child at home.

Usborne - web-based reading support from publishers Usborne. Quick links for internet linked books. Features parents' guides on a number of topics.

Times Spelling Bee - practice your spelling skills against the clock!

Activity Village - coloring pages, kids crafts, home school resources, puzzles, printables, jigsaws, sudoku and lots more fun, free activities for kids...

Curriculum Support - educational resources for parents to support them in the development of their child’s education. Includes quizzes, tests, games and a guide to national tests.

I Child -  lots of free resources to keep your children busy and entertained, including hundreds of free printable activities, worksheets and resources. Requires log-in.

Parents in Touch - 4,500 work sheets for use with your child at home. Some free, requires subscription for others.

PC Pro - Get the edge in IT with free computing games.

Maths Games from TutPup - register to play Maths games against the clock or against opponents from around the world.

Sumdog - featuring a collection of maths games for a variety of topics where students are required to quickly type or click in the answers to questions displayed on screen. At the moment there are seven different game types apparently covering 100 different numeracy topics at ten different levels. There are single player and multiplayer modes and there is no requirement to register to play.