Educational Websites

‘With Kids’ have kindly given some more suggestions of websites to support during this time.

With Kids

Here are a list of websites that you might find useful!

BBC have created a brilliant resource with lots of quizzes, games and practical activities to help with your learning.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/this-terms-topics

Literacy

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkbkf4j/articles/zbm8scw

Crystal Explorers – a game aimed at P3 onwards looking at spelling, punctuation and grammar.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd63xyc/articles/zdp4pg8

Karate Cats – a game aimed at P3 onwards looking at spelling, punctuation and grammar.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/spelling-and-grammar

This website has a number of games all pupils can access covering key literacy areas.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?e=spelling-grammar01

Trapped is a popular game for P5-7.

https://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/learning-activities/languages/words/adjective-detective/

Adjective Detective looks at identifying superlative and comparative adjectives.

https://gridclub.com/activities/comma-castle

This game has four different levels aimed at P3 onwards concentrating on commas.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?e=spelling-grammar02

A fast-paced game suitable for P5-7 looking at verbs and adverbs.

http://www.funenglishgames.com/grammargames/prefixsuffix.html

This game tests pupil knowledge on prefixes and suffixes. Suitable for P5-7.

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/grammar-practice/present-simple-and-present-continuous

This game concentrates on sentence building and structure. Suitable for P1-4.

https://www.learninggamesforkids.com/word_games/spelling-games/clueless-crossword.html

A fun crossword challenge.

http://www.wordgametime.com/games/letter-blocks

This a fast-paced tetris style game suitable for all.

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/games/Eight1.html

This Countdown style game is good for building vocabulary.

https://howtospell.co.uk/misspelled-words-quiz-1

This is a good game for practising those tricky spelling words!

Khan Academy Kids – free app covering a range of curricular areas.

Vocabulary Spelling City – free app to practise spelling.

Numeracy and Maths

www.sumdog.com

All pupils have a login for this website/app. Games are suitable from P1-7 and should increase difficulty based on pupil progress.

https://www.cdmasterworks.co.uk/the-daily-rigour/

This is a great resource for challenging P6/7 pupils within numeracy. Weekly challenges are based on current topics in the news.

www.mathplayground.com

Games suitable from P1-7 covering a range of topics, including logic puzzles and brain teasers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd2f7nb/articles/zn2y7nb

Guardians: Defenders on Mathematic – a fun game aimed at P4-7 which involves maths battles. Pencil and paper required.

https://www.echalk.co.uk/Primary/numeracy.html

Suitable for P1-7 but pupils can only play games a limited amount of times due to a subscription fee.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/

A brilliant resource jam-packed with lots of games suitable for all ages and stages. Pupils will be familiar with this site with many of them playing Hit the Button to better their number bonds and times tables.

http://www.transum.org/software/

This website has games and puzzles aimed at secondary pupils however some of our P6/7 pupils may enjoy some of the activities.

https://www.mathsisfun.com/

Suitable for P1-7 covering a range of topics.

https://nrich.maths.org/primary

This website is good for deepening understanding within maths and numeracy focussing on more problem solving style tasks. Activities are aimed at P1 onwards.

https://nrich.maths.org/secondary

This website is good for deepening understanding within maths and numeracy focussing on more problem solving style tasks. Although it is aimed at secondary level, some of our P5-7 pupils may want to try some of the activities.

https://nrich.maths.org/6499

Countdown Numbers Game – great for testing mental maths. Suitable for P5-7.

https://www.timestables.co.uk/

A good website for consolidating times tables.

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/maths/index.html

A good website for all pupils.

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Science

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zdp4382/articles/znc3y9q

Dinosaur Discovery – a fun game to learn about dinosaurs. Suitable for P1-4.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zdp4382/articles/zn7bscw

Galaxy Pugs – a suitable game for P1-4 covering a range of science topics from the human body to the planet.