Activities to do at Home and Online

Downloadable activities from the Children's University site with ideas to support children's learning. They are ideal for summer holidays activities.

5-14 year olds

Teachers, Parents

Spider Web Art Project

A great art idea for a minibeast or Halloween project. It's a water-colour resist spider.

5-8 year olds

Pupils

Area and Perimeter

A teaching tool for demonstrating area and perimeter on an interactive whiteboard. Drag out rectangles to show different examples.

7-11 year olds

Teachers

Year 6 Arithmetic Practice

Test your knowledge in preparation for SATs. This interactive quiz has the type of questions that appear on Paper 1 - Arithmetic.

10-11 year olds

Pupils

Cubes

A super tool for demonstrating volume and surface area. There is an option to create your own size of cuboid.

9-11 year olds

Teachers, Pupils

Maths Starter Generator

A maths lesson starter generator for use on an interactive whiteboard. Check answers either individually or all at once.

11-16 year olds

Teachers

Geoboard

A wonderful teaching resource for exploring shapes. Choose from three different geoboard designs and stretch out the bands to make your shapes.

6-11 year olds

Teachers, Pupils

Mapzone

Mapzone can help your map reading skills. There are games to play and map resources for teachers.

11-14 year olds

Teachers, Pupils, Parents

Stimulus Sounds

Five episodes encouraging listening skills for pre-school children with fun sound discrimination games.

3-5 year olds

Teachers, Parents

Mathscasts

Mathscasts from Uxbridge High School has lots of free Maths revision videos on for both KS3 & KS4.

11-16 year olds

Pupils