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Below you will find a range of links for children, parents and governors. They are not listed in any order. Click on the links below to go directly to an area of interest. |
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Foundation Stage
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Preschool Rainbow
Fun activities to do together |
Fun School: games Includes a set of interactive games with an international flavour |
Games to play and music to listen to. |
Have Fun With Spot Simple concentration & thinking games |
CrayolaLots of ideas for crafts and colouring |
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Tikkabilla emotion theatre This interactive, online game tells the story of Tamba's search for a lost toy. |
First School Years
A growing site with ideas for those teaching children in the first years of schooling
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Who is this? Children can use the mouse to drag and drop pieces of a jigsaw to create pictures of the Hoobs. |
Northumberland Grid for Learning Interactive games to help develop early mouse skills. |
Sophie Bear
When doing news and stories for literacy, try using a teddy bear. Sophie Bear her own website where she keeps a diary. |
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DisneyLots to do and see with all your favourite Disney characters |
Poisson Rouge A wonderful site to develop the use of ICT by younger children. |
Giraffian
Simple early learning tools for letter, numbers, shapes and colours |
Sesame StreetSee all the Sesame Street gang - great for younger children |
Dressing Bo Bear Four interactive activities for young children |
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Little Robots The activities on the Little Robots site have been designed to complement Foundation Stage learning, particularly focusing upon knowledge and concepts in the Little Robots. |
Come outside These farm-themed activities from the BBC can be used to help children learn about life on the farm and about where food comes from.
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Imagination Cubed Available through the Imagination at Work website, this is a bit like a paint program. It allows users to create, save and e-mail sketches. It also allows a variety of shapes and stamps to be added to drawings. |
Official Noddy Website
Offers fun and imaginative activities for 2-6 year olds, including games, read-along stories and colouring activities. Also has tips for teachers |
BBC
Games Selection of online educational activities featuring well known characters from BBC programmes, including Pingu and Bob the Builder. Games (Flash and Shockwave). |
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Let's play a feelings game! Online Flash game suitable for young children. This game asks children to look at a series of faces and pick the one that shows a particular emotion, for example, happy, sad, angry, surprised, embarrassed, scared etc. |
All you need to know about Paddington Bear |
Phonics A website about synthetic phonics - you can listen to the sounds each phoneme makes |
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Key Stage 1
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Maths Games Can you take the maths challenge?
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Animals Activities The Little Animals Activity Centre is a fun way for 4-8 year olds to learn and play at home. |
Numbertime BBC
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BBC Words and Pictures
5-7 years |
Pilkey - Website o' fun
A website of games for children
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GameGoo Join the gooey gang at GameGoo for a delightful collection of activities made for children. |
All you need to know about Paddington Bear
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Draw
and Colour with Uncle Fred Step-by-step instructions which teach how to draw a number of different characters and animals. |
Toftwood Infant School
A selection of online learning activities for 4 to 7 year olds. |
Active science online games These online games are designed to help young children find out facts about living things, e.g. their diet, habitats, senses and appearance. |
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CYKE Visit the animated land of CYKE and learn about emotions at Adventure Station, read interactive stories at Mullet Point, or visit other areas to learn about animals, US states and presidents, parts of the body, and much more. |
Dora the Explorer Get ready for fun and adventure with Dora the Explorer and her best friend, Boots! Play online games, read a story, learn how to say words in English and Spanish, colour a picture online, plus lots more. |
Haring Kids Artist Keith Haring was devoted to kids. At this site, he shares his vision of art with them and inspires them to discover their own creative side. Activities include games, puzzles, pictures to colour, stories and more. |
Hop Pop Town There are fun sounds to be played and simple stories to be made! Children can choose from 6 activities like 'Sounds of the Street', where they can improvise and record musical sequences. |
Something Fish You're Walter the fish. Eat fish smaller than you to grow, but avoid the bigger fish. (who will eat you!) As you grow, don't grow over-confident because there's always a bigger fish in the pond... |
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Little Critter Learn about Little Critter as you enjoy his funny jokes, colour pictures, solve tricky puzzles, watch cool Shockwave movies, and more. Also includes information on Little Critter's creator, Mercer Mayer. |
Little Robots The activities on the Little Robots site have been designed to complement Foundation Stage learning, particularly focusing upon knowledge and concepts in the Little Robots |
Grammar Gorillas Our friends, the Grammar Gorillas, need help identifying parts of speech. If you click on the right word in the sentence, our friends get a banana. And you know, a gorilla with a banana is a gorilla with appeal. |
Clifford the Big Red Dog Join Clifford and all his friends for games, colouring, a story, and cut-outs fun. Also included is a TV schedule for the show and ideas for offline activities. |
Bananaboo There's lots to do at Bananaboo! 4 to 8 year olds will enjoy Bananaboo's big selection of puzzles, stories, craft ideas, jokes, coloring pages, cut-outs, cartoons, and more. |
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Key Stage 2
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Infrared Zoo The Infrared Zoo shows what animals look like in a whole different light. See what birds, reptiles, and mammals look like in the infrared, and learn how animals use fur, blubber, and feathers to insulate themselves. |
Think Ahead Get more points than the computer in this fun strategic game of numbers. Remember, picking the highest number in a row is not always the best choice... think ahead and use strategy to keep the computer's choices as low as possible, while keeping yours as high as possible! |
Star Bears: The Fandom Menace As Fluffy the Bear, you'll storm the Death Bear in this Star Wars spoof. Defeat 3 opponents and kiss the princess to win the game. May the fur-ce be with you! |
National Geographic for Kids Dare to explore at this fun National Geographic site! You'll find interesting articles, online games, "Try This" activities, (like the Weird-O-Meter, to find out how weird you really are), brainteasers, plus lots of other surprises. |
ChessKIDS
Academy Designed especially for kids, this excellent guide to the game of chess offers interactive online lessons and quizzes, chess movies, and a challenging online chess game. Created by Richard James, who has been teaching chess to kids for over 25 years. |
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StarChild Learn to be an astronaut. |
Earth View Look at the Earth or Moon from one of many satellites in space at this very moment. |
Bizzkid Bizzikid is all about providing learning games and fun activities for kids, which are safe, stimulating and educational. |
Fun and games with Dennis the Menace and the characters from every boy's favourite comic.
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Kratts' Creatures: Who Lives Here?!? Uh oh! Dr. Snaggletooth is stealing the world's animals! It's up to you to get them back and return each to their home in this fun adventure game. |
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Squigly's Games Blast, dig, and think your way though this nice collection of games, that has a little something for everyone. Classic game fans will especially enjoy Tempest and Centipedo. |
Escape from Knab Escape from Knab is an educational simulation which takes participants through a series of financial decision
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Cube of Concentration Spin the cube and match the symbols in this tricky memory game. For an easier game, turn off hidden; turn off colours if you'd like a harder game. |
Websafe Crackerz "Websafe Crackerz... The web's freshest guide to online safety and hassle-free surfing. Play games, pick up tips and answer the quiz to crack the web safe and win the prizes. " |
Funology At Funology, science is all about having fun! But that's not all. Besides fun facts and experiments you can perform, you'll also find crafts, recipes, magic tricks, jokes, and a whole lot more. |
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Revision Games Online revision pages. |
The Tomato Zone Helping plants grow. |
Goosebumps
Do you love these books? |
Book Zone
Find your favourite authors web site |
The Case Mysteries to solve, scary stories, magic tricks....... |
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I-board Control it A range of trial games for co-ordination
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I-board - Which Way? A range of trial games
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What's the Point? Using co-ordinates. |
Interactive Booster Lessons Interactive maths booster lessons.
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Paper Paradise
A good resource for making models made out of paper |
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SAT Attack Reading & Writing
SAT Attack is a 10-week revision programme for the Reading and Writing SATs at KS2, specifically devised to complement your existing resources and not just duplicate them. |
Soccer Shoot-out Score and Save by correctly answering math problems. First you shoot, then try to save the shot by FunBrain. Remember to reduce your answers (fractions only).
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Energy
Power Up
A website, a site designed to introduce the Key Stage 2 and 3 electricity curriculum in an engaging and exciting way.
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SAT questions Welcome to the ICTeachers practice SATs page. Try our questions to improve your understanding. Past questions can also be tried - just click on any one and have a go! |
Robot Constructor Construct a virtual robot and use it to collect golden cubes scattered around a variety of hostile zones. Each zone requires a robot with different skills, so choose its power supply, sensors, material and mobile abilities carefully. |
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Home Work Help A school website offering help and support to complete homework.
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SATS - Maths Practice you maths online
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SATs Revision BBC Revisewise
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Countdown Play the famous game - select numbers and letter, play the conundrum |
Show Me Cool Stuff from museums and galleries - lots of things to find out! |
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| Warner Brothers Official site including items of interest to kids and young people. |
Beano Official Beano website for kids, with games, quizzes, things to buy and loads more. |
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Links for Governors
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The following pages are links to different sections within Banes website |
Banes | Clerk to the Governing body | Constitution of Governing Body | ||||||
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Governor
Net Information for school governors |
Teachenet A resource to support the education profession
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QCA 'QCA is committed to building a world-class education and training framework'. |
DfES Department for Education and Skills |
Ofsted Information about the inspection process |
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| National Association of School Governors NASG is the independent membership organisation for governors. It is run by governors - for governors. |
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This BBC site provides support for parents to help their child read, complete homework and ways to support the child to learn faster and remember more. |
Information and support for parents on how to help with your child's learning, including advice on choosing a school and finding childcare. |
Home
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How you can get the most out of parents evening. What can you do as a parent if you think your child is being bullied? What are Special Educational Needs? |
Parentline Plus Parentline Plus is a UK registered charity which offers support to anyone parenting a child
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Educational Games
A search engine to find a range of games for the different areas of the curriculum.
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Practical
Parenting Advice A resource for parents and professionals wanting tips and support on child behaviour, development and family relationships. |
Parents Place.com
Advice for parents of babies and young kids |
Grid Club Government supported website with 500 learning activities and games linked to the school curriculum. The kids love it and research shows it helps learning. |
The British Dyslexia Association The British Dyslexia Association |
Childnet International Non-profit organisation promoting children interest on the internet
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Parenting Centre This site contains some very helpful parenting information. |
NSPCC - Bullying Advice for kids on dealing with bullying at school |
Bullying Online Help for kids and advice for parents who are tackling bullying |
Child Alert Advice on keeping your child safe |
Gingerbread Support organisation for lone parent families in England and Wales |
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SATs past papers
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| Foundation Stage | Key Stage 1 | Key Stage 2 | Governors | Parents |