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Useful Links

Here are some useful links to the subjects we teach at St John’s.

Art

The entire collection – online!

Contains activites relevant to KS2-3 History and D&T

Design Technology

A site jam packed full of useful information on how everything works including the INTERNET!

Ideas on mechanisms and structures.

Activities and games based on CBeebies characters such as the Teletubbies, Fimbles, Tweenies and Bob the Builder. Aimed at ages up to 6.

Education Sites

The public pages from Hertfordshire Education.

The main site for the Department for Education and Science.

National Curriculum online.

The Guardian Education site full of content for teachers, parents and children. Check out ‘Six of the Best’.

Contains a range of interactive sites for Primary Pupils – check out SPYWATCH and The Romans .

Games

BBC words and pictures Word games

Winnie the Pooh Word games

Grid Club Number games

Geography

Free and Fun section of the OS site for children .

Supports KS1 QCA Geography Unit 5: Where in the world is Barnaby Bear?

KS2 QCA Geography Units 14 and 23: Investigating rivers and coasts.

Explores and compares life in Belfast and Meixco City.

Covers KS2 QCA Geography Unit 7: Weather around the world.

History

Ancient Greece covers KS2 QCA History Units 14 and 15.

Anglo-Saxons covers KS2 QCA History Unit 6B: An Anglo-Saxon case study.

Children in Victorian Britain covers KS2 QCA History Unit 11.

Children of World War 2 covers KS2 QCA History unit 9.

Covers KS2 QCA History Unit 6A:A Roman case study.

Covers KS2 QCA History Unit 6C: A Viking case study.

Case studies in Unit 6: Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, Unit 8: Tudors, Unit 11 and 12: Victorians and Unit 13: Changes since 1948

The National Maritime Museums site with links to the Royal Observatory.

The Victoria and Albert Museum better known as The V&A.

Homework Help

SAM Learning offers comprehensive online learning courses for SATs.

Activities designed to prepare children for KS2 National Tests.

A service for students from KS2, KS3, GCSE and AS/A2 Level to ask a teacher a question on homework, coursework or revision ( replies in 24 hours) and to search the database of over 15,000 previously asked questions.

Computing

A site jam packed full of useful information on how everything works including the INTERNET!

Web site building for children, suitable from KS2 onwards .

Help for children.

Languages

Beginners’ French for 10-11 year olds. Content also relevant to KS2 QCA Units 1-6.

English

Suitable for KS1 with lots of activities .

A site based on treasure island .

The official Eric Carle website – features ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar ‘ and ‘The Red Fox’ .

The world of Beatrix Potter tells us about the life of the author and the characters in her books.

Activities and games based on CBeebies characters such as the Teletubbies, Fimbles, Tweenies and Bob the Builder. Aimed at ages up to 6.

Digger and the Gang activities to support Year 3 and 4 of the National Strategies for Literacy and Numeracy, and KS1 and KS2 programmes of study.

DynaMo Literacy, numeracy and science games, including Spellbound and Who’s Spooking Who? Designed for home use.

Activities designed to prepare children for KS2 National Tests.

Covers the word and text objectives of year 3, 4 and 5 of the National Literacy Strategy.

Aimed at children preparing for KS1 National Tests in English.

Can be used in the literacy hour for reception year and year 1.

Learning phonics can be used as part of the literacy hour for years 1, 2 and 3 with interactive games suitable for whole class work using an interactive whiteboard.

Music

Activities and games based on CBeebies characters such as the Teletubbies, Fimbles, Tweenies and Bob the Builder. Aimed at ages up to 6

The Little Animals Activity Centre can be used as part of the literacy hour and daily maths lesson for reception year and years 1,2 and 3.

Maths

A really rich resource, for extending students, with new activities each month; use the Archive to find activities and solutions from previous months .

Activities and games based on CBeebies characters such as the Teletubbies, Fimbles, Tweenies and Bob the Builder. Aimed at ages up to 6.

Digger and the Gang activities to support Year 3 and 4 of the National Strategies for Literacy and Numeracy, and KS1 and KS2 programmes of study.

DynaMo Literacy, numeracy and science games, including Spellbound and Who’s Spooking Who? Designed for home use.

Number Time activities alot into the Numeracy Framework for reception year and years 1 and 2.

Activities designed to prepare children for KS2 National Tests.

Aimed at chidlren preparing for KS1 National Tests in English.

The Little Animals Activity Centre can be used as part of the literacy hour and dailt maths lesson for reception year and years 1,2 and 3.

PE

The site for all information on the Olympic movement .

PE Association ofEngland– go to links to the main Sports Governing Body sites in theUK.

The Athletics site.

The official site of the Rugby Football Union .

PSHE

Learning to be You – Interactive activities on themes included in the KS1-4 PSHE and Citizenship Studies .

Explores and compares life in Belfast and Meixco City.and Meixco City.

Science

Activities and games based on CBeebies characters such as the Teletubbies, Fimbles, Tweenies and Bob the Builder. Aimed at ages up to 6.

Digger and the Gang activities to support Year 3 and 4 of the National Strategies for Literacy and Numeracy, and KS1 and KS2 programmes of study.

DynaMo Literacy, numeracy and science games, including Spellbound and Who’s Spooking Who? Designed for home use.

Pod’s Mission covers KS2 QCA Science Unit 4A: Moving and growing, Unit 4D:Solids, liquids and how they can be seperated, and Unit 4F: Circuits and conductors. There is also a unit on bones.

Activities designed to prepare children for KS2 National Tests.

If you are a parent or carer, we hope you will find the web links below useful.

CEOP News and articles surrounding internet safety.

Think You Know Great advice to keep children safe whilst using the internet.

Parent Information Expert information to help children and young people stay safe online.

UK Safer Internet Centre E-safety tips, advice and resources.

NSPCC Safety Online Helpful advice and tools you can use to help keep your child safe whenever and wherever they go online.

Childnet International Parents and Carers information to keep your child safe online.

Action for Children Action for Children supports and speaks for the UK's most vulnerable and neglected children and young people.

BBC Bitesize Fun activities to help children learn more key subjects.

Department for Education Articles and advice for children and young people.

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