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Links

Site title	Description
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing	An on-line typing course for children - full of colourful, interactive exercises and games.

"A Plus Maths Games"	Maths games to practise addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

"Cool Math 4 Kids"	A lively and entertaining site with many games, including the famous Lemonade Stand game. Warning, this game is VERY addictive.

4 player maths quiz	A maths quiz for up to 4 players (Key Stage 2)

All about pirates	This is a website by National Geographic Kids - it is full of information, amongst other things containing a biography of Blackbeard, links to other safe pirate websites and a pirate game.

Ancient Egyptians	General information

BBC	The home page of BBC education, from pre-school to adult learning.

BBC - Spelling	Practise your spelling against the clock. Follow this link and then select Spellbound. 3 different levels of difficulty - go on - challenge yourself!

BBC Revisewise Website	An excellent website with lots of revision help for maths, English and science.

BBC science clips	Lots of interactive activities and quizes covering all of the science taught in Key Stage 1 and 2. Great for new learning as well as revision!

Corus Virtual Science Activity Centre	A fantastic site for budding scientists in Key Stage 2 (and Key Stage 3). Contains loads of virtual experiments on electricity, heat conductors, solids liquids and gases, magnet and forces.

DfES school profile	A link for parents to access information and statistics about the school, compiled by the DfES.

Eduplace Numeracy	Problem page - updated each week - some quite difficult problems but very satisfying if you get them right.

Encyclopaedia Britannica	The encyclopaedia Britannica online - free!

Funbrain	Recognising wrongly spelled words

Funbrain - Numeracy	Maths baseball game - for practice in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Funbrain - Reading	Recognising parts of speech such as nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, pronouns.

Hangman	A hangman game with lots of categories to choose from such as exotic animals, Harry Potter, Geography, rainforests, etc.

Hangman game	Learn to spell about 70 common words, such as colours and days of the week, using this hangman game.

Holiday offers during school holidays	As you are doubtless aware, it can be very expensive booking holidays at the same time as everyone else, during school holiday periods. It can be tempting to take holidays during term-time but this can be detrimental to your child's education. There are, however, incentives available to those who book early for the holiday periods. The government has set up this dedicated website to provide links to key early booking deals.

Human skeleton	Put a human skeleton back together in the correct order (and find out what the different bones are called).

Learn Spanish	The BBC's own website teaching Spanish to primary children. Bright and colourful, great fun and highly interactive!

Lemonade Stand	A simple but interesting game teaching children the basics of running their own business including pricing, quality control and purchasing. Great fun for children and parents alike!

Livesearch	A brilliant site which has zoomable maps which can be converted to arial photographs by a single click. Amazing detail allows you to recognise cars on your drive. Great for understanding how maps relate to the real terrain.

Matching game	Match up English words with their Spanish equivalents - great fun and you'll learn a lot too!

Maths challenges	A website full of really challenging maths problems. Contains a truly massive library of graded problems covering all aspects of the subject. Also contains answers and clues if you get really stuck. New problems released on the 1st of each month.

More about pirates	A school site which includes biographies of famous pirates, stories, poems, and a summary of RL Stevenson's Treasure Island. Also includes a section explaining how to talk like a pirate!

NGFL	Homesite of the National Grid for Learning - a government funded website.

Online phrase book	A useful online phrase book for adults learning Spanish or just supporting their child's learning. NOTE: The site also leads to a similar phrasebook in French, German and Italien.

Parents information network	Gives information and advice about the roles of computers in education for both parents and teachers.

Picture dictionary	Look up all sorts of words in Spanish using this internet picture dictionary.

Pirate crafts	A website with loads of pirate craft ideas for children.

Pirate images	A site containing loads of free images of pirates, their ships, their maps, etc. These are images made at the time - this is what they really looked like!

Pirate info	Some general information about pirates and their history.

Pirates kid site	A website about pirates aimed specifically at children.

Pirates of the Caribbean	The official website for Disney's pirate film

Resources for teachers and parents	A practical listings guide of resources for teachers and parents.

Salisbury Heights School	We have just begun to develop links with Salisbury Heights in Australia, and look forward to a very valuable partnership with our new-found Sister School. Their website is very impressive, so why not pay them a visit by clicking on their school name to the left?

Schoolfunds	A directory of online shopping sites, including most big names such as Dixons, Tesco, Comet, Woolworths, WH Smith, BT, Dell to name just a very few. Access them through this site and whatever you spend on them will earn the school reward points which can be spent on educational equipment.

Spanish names for animals	A quiz to tet your knowledge of the Spanish names for animals.

Spanish numbers	Learn the numbers in Spanish and test your learning by playing some games.

Spellits - BBC spelling games	A BBC website which contains lots of games to help children with their spelling.

The Romans	A website containing useful information on the Romans.

Times tables games	A website with links to about 20 different games which encourage children to practise times tables. Also contains a link to Timez Attack, a 'real' computer game which is reputed to be excellent for developing times tables skills. The free version can be downloaded through this link.