The Battle of Hastings
A detailed account of the Battle of Hastings, including the origins of the conflict, the battle plan, details of the battle and a review of why Harold lost.
Make a Chinese Dragon
Here we show you how to make a brightly coloured Chinese Dragon in easy steps. Super activity for Chinese New Year topic.
Verbs in Space
See if you can spot the verbs. In this game you need to click on the robot holding the verb to whack it!
Adjective Adventure
Click on the label which has an adjective to feed the spider with a fly.
Magic Verbs
Choose a better verb to make the sentences more interesting. The characters are animated to match the verbs. The game is lends itself well to starter or plenary sessions displayed on an interactive whiteboard.
Story Shuffle
Unscramble the historical stories and find out when in history they took place. They feature the relationship between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, the Gunpowder Plot, a plot to steal the Crown jewels and the legend of the ravens at the Tower of London.
The Concept of God
A series of blended learning resources containing interactive self-study content covering Jewish core beliefs on the nature of God.
Encyclopedia of the First World War
A comprehensive site on the Great War which includes biographies of the main personalities involved, details of the soldiers and their lives in the trenches, war statistics, the home front and much more.
Web Gallery of Art
The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1200-1700). You can even take virtual tours such as one to the Cistine Chapel in the Vatican.
Views of the Famine
An excellent collection of articles and pictures from newspapers and periodicals dating from the Irish Potato Famine in the mid-19th Century.