Sounds and Actions
A useful demonstration on YouTube of the phonics sounds and actions from a teacher using the Jolly Phonics scheme.
Shakespeare's Life and Times
Well worth visiting if you are studying Shakespeare's life, theatre and society in Renaissance times.
Early Education
Early Education is a charity and membership organisation for individuals and organisations working in early childhood education across the UK.
Drama in Education
A first class site on drama in the Primary School. It has excellent suggestions for drama activities from Early Years upwards, and excellent advice on how to develop a Primary Drama Syllabus in your school.
Starfall - Learn to Read
A good learning to read site. There are good quality games and animated stories which children can interact with. The children can click on words to see what they say. Excellent for learning the sounds the letters make.
BBC Bitesize English Key Stage 1
Video clips on Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar, Reading and Writing, Speaking and Listening and Types of Text.
Coconut Vowels
A fun spelling game where you need to think quickly or it's game over. Fill in the gaps in the words to make a real words. There are different levels of difficulty. For teachers' information the game focuses on vowel digraphs.
KS2 French
A BBC site with French skills, phonics, songs, stories and a game.
LitCharts
LitCharts has 853 literature guides for students including every Shakespeare play.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
View the texts of Shakespeare's complete works.