Google Maps for Geography lessons

Click here for Google Maps UK version

P1/P2 links worth having a look at

MAPE - supporting the Early Learning Goals
ICT in the foundation stage suggestions with Web links from MAPE


Robert Hitchams School
Robert Hitchams School Suffolk ideas and resources for Foundation ICT


The British Association for Early Childhood Education


Early Years Online
Learning and Teaching Scotland supporting early years care and education


Under 5's
A site for all working with Early Years children with resources, ideas, e-mail discussion and links to important sites. Lovely photographs in the Pre-school themes: autumn, harvest festival, minibeasts and spring.


Camelsdale School
Useful curriculum PowerPoint activities to download from Veronica Carter and colleagues


The BBC Education site
Search for Little Animals Activity Centre, Words and Pictures, Tweenies and Teletubbies to start with.


BBC Teletubbies It’s a BBC site so plenty to use in a clear format.



Cbeebies
Lots of fun interactive ideas to support the planned delivery of the Foundation Stage Early Learning Goals.


Storybook website
A site based on popular children’s stories by authors Scoular Anderson, Debi Gliori, Mairi Hedderwick and Frank Rodgers For ages 5-8. The site contains a range of interactive activities s well as audio and video of the authors talking about their books.

Number time


Sebastian Swan The home of Sebastian Swan !! Big books on line from Kent


Sebastian and numeracy


Titch
A page to support the TV program


Chateaux Meddybemps
Lively interactive activities to support mouse control and promote lots of talk between children and the practitioner.


The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Children can read, play with and even e-mail the author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.


The Dr Seuss site


Fun with Spot
The Spot page has many traditional foundation activities on screen and interactive


BooWakWala
Bright, bold and cheerful activities with lots to talk about and lots of decision making but be aware that it is a shopping page too.


Enchanted Learning
Not to be missed, an enormous selection of activities and resources


Early Birds Music
Includes music for Early Years.


Red Yellow Blue
Allowing young children and those with special needs to explore colour – a delight. Part of the Access Art Site.


The BoohBah site
A wonderful site with lots of simple cause and effect activities. Click on an object on the page and another activity opens. Lots of mouse clicking, colour matching playing with sounds. A spin off from television.

Sebran
Colourful pictures, pleasant music and gentle games teach letters, numbers, simple math, and rudiments of reading.


The Mouse Club
Lots of useful games activities and adult help.


Weather Teddy From the Anglia Campus site


Thomas the Tank Engine


Ranvilles Infant School
Ideas and activities, including downloadable 'games', very useful


Poison Rouge A wonderful site for early years children, lively and exciting with such a range of activities supporting all areas of the foundation curriculum


Birmingham Grid
For Learning – a good range of early years activities.


Kent NGfL
Ideas for reception teachers


Northern Grid for Learning


Lewisham
Ideas for ICT and art activities.

Assessment for Learning links

Project Management Board (PMB) Assessment for Learning Section

NI Curriculum Assessment for Learning Section

Article on Black and Wiliams research

Black and Wiliams "Inside the Black Box"

Linguistic Phonics News reports and research studies

BBC News report
Stranmillis Research Summary

Stranmillis Research Full report

Road Safety and Cycling Safety Links

DOE - Kidzone Online Road Safety

Streetwise - Bright Thinking on our Roads

Contains:
animated road safety rules for pedestrians, cyclists,teachers and children to work through
attractive pictures showcasing safe and unsafe behaviour on the roads
a computer game on two levels to test understanding
complementary homework and classwork tasks and worksheets
experiments for follow-up classwork
a quiz for children and their parents

Bikeability - site devoted to cycling safety

Download a wet lunch time pack for your class by clicking here

New Curriculum Website

Click here for a link to the Revised Curriculum site.

Whole Class Literacy Work

These are some links which you might find useful for whole class Literacy teaching and learning.

Magic Key Adventures

Create your own comic

Digger and the gang

Words and Pictures

Starship - Synonyms

Alphabetical Order

First post - Talking Books links

Here are links to some online Talking Books that could be used with the whole class using the data projector or alternatively used by small groups/individual at the computer. All these files have sound provided.

Dick Whittington

Sun, Wind and Rain

Learn to Read

I'm Reading

It's Fun to Read

Greek Myths

CBeebies Story Circle

Folk Tales

Clifford the Big Red Dog

The Missing Apples