Learning shouldn’t stop in the classroom. Below are some of the best resources found on the web for further challenge, learning and creativity. Do you have a suggestion for a great site we’ve missed? Great! Please email us with your suggestion.

General

Doorway Online Doorway online is a collection of free and highly accessible educational games that learners will find easy to use independently.

Maths

Sum Dog A favourite with the kids. This site challenges children with multi-player games which adapt to your child’s capabilities. As they get better at the problems, Sum Dog presents harder problems.
Maths is Fun A wide range of addictive maths and logic games, including connect 4, chess, checkers and many more
Maths games 5-7 yrs old

Maths games 7-11 yrs old

 Lots of games to challenge the kids focusing on topics such as sequencing, addition, subtraction, times tables, multiplication, division, money, problem solving, fractions, decimals and much more
Multiplication games Fun games for the kids to play while needing to answer multiplication questions to advance

Reading

Star fall Lots of games and online content for children who are just learning to read

Spelling

English games 5-7 yrs old

English games 7-11 yrs old

 A great collection of games around punctuation, spelling, writing, grammar, poetry and more.
Spelling Training This website offers easy interactive spelling practice for children that is linked to their class spelling words.  All that is needed is for them to type in their words.

Health

Go Noodle! While originally conceived as something for teachers to do as an active break during classes, kids absolutely love playing these at home too. Get the kids active with this site!

Telling Time

BBC Bitesize telling the time Learn all about how to tell the time with these interactive games
Smarty Games Challenge your kids with these 4 games to help learn the clock

ICT and Typing

BBC’s Dance Mat Typing The definitive site for children learning to type
Scratch Create stories, games, and animations with this simple interface. Scratch is a programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations or modify other’s creations!

Internet Safety

BBC Bitesize Stay Safe Videos games and more to teach the children online safety
Think you know Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) website aimed at helping children stay safe. Age specific content.

Music

Beat Lab Let your children mix and create their own music, in a variety of genres
Garage Band App GarageBand turns your iPad, and iPhone into a collection of Touch Instruments and a full-featured recording studio.

News

BBC newsround A news website specifically targeting children. Lots of short video clips to keep them interested.

Parent Resources

Parents in touch
 A collection of resources to help you teach your child (some require a paid subscription). The instructions are quite easy to follow and the printouts colourful and interesting
Have Fun Teaching – Flash cards

Have Fun Teaching – Activities

 A great collection of resources for the home including worksheets, flash cards and activites for many subjects.
Parent Zone Parentzone Scotland provides information and advice about education in Scotland. It includes practical ideas to support learning at home in a variety of curriculum areas, along with information on additional support needs, and tips on how parents can get involved in their child’s school and education.