Winsor and Newton Guides
Hints and techniques to enable you to explore your artistic abilities with water colours, oils, acrylics, pastels and colour mixing.
Second World War 1939 - 1945
Learn about the Second World War by using animated maps and investigations containing original documents, film, photographs and audio from the National Archives.
Verb Vikings
Play Verb Vikings for games and demonstrations on adding -ing and -ed to verbs which include when to double consonants.
Shakespeare's Life and Times
Well worth visiting if you are studying Shakespeare's life, theatre and society in Renaissance times.
British Council School and Teacher Resources
Here schools can create safe links with young people all over the world and to find out about different cultures. Get your class started on a fun, exciting international project. Over 30,000 schools to choose from.
Homeostasis - The Kidneys and Water Balance
An excellent interactive site which explains the structure and function of the kidneys. It also looks at how kidneys work, at problems which can arise and at dialysis.
Home Front 1939 - 1945
A site from the National Archives Learning Curve which presents original documents to support information about aspects of the Second World War such as preparations for war, evacuation, women at war, spies and more. The interactive parts no longer work.
PhonicsPlay.co.uk
Phonics reading games linked to the 'Letters and Sounds' programme in England. Some are free on this subscription site.
What Did Children Eat in World War 2?
A resource which demonstrates the different aspects of rationing during the Second World War and its effects on ordinary British people. It includes cross-curricular teaching ideas.
ISpot
iSpot is a website aimed at helping anyone identify anything in nature. You need to register and then you can add an observation to the website and suggest an identification yourself or see if anyone else can identify it for you.
