Family Learning
Roald Dahl Day!!! - "13th September is officially Roald Dahl Day across the world!
It's a fantastic opportunity to hold events, read Roald Dahl stories and to celebrate the World's No. 1 Storyteller wherever you are." You can use the activities all year round. Abernet (Aberdeen schools resource website)
"Get Books, Lesson Plans, Worksheets, and Other Activities
We all owe much of our success in life to teachers everywhere. We at Learning A–Z want to thank educators the best way we know how—by opening up access to our websites. Last year during Teacher Appreciation Week, we held an Open House that provided FREE access to ALL of our educational websites. Response was so overwhelming that we are going to do it again, and for even longer!"
AtoZ Teachers Stuff - "A to Z Teacher Stuff is a teacher-created site designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. Find lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials & eBooks, printable worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more".
BBC Bitesize Scotland Standard Grade Revision
BBC Scotland Education
The Big Wild Read - "The Big Wild Read was the 2007 national Summer Reading Challenge™ in libraries - a Reading Agency initiative in the UK.
This website is part funded by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) as part of the “Framework for the Future” programme for public libraries. Loads of games and links on conservation."
Boggles World ESOL - "Boggle's World (or bogglesworld) contains printable teaching resources for TESOL, TEFL and ESL teachers who teach elementary and middle school English, ESL and EFL to kids".
Children's Poetry Bookshelf
The Children's Poetry Bookshelf is a book club for young readers aged 7 - 11 dedicated entirely to poetry. The Children's Poetry Bookshelf has recently been relaunched with a fanfare of new features. More books, activity sheets and a brilliant new website have been added to make each term's books more exciting. Whether your children like funny poems, spooky poems or puzzling poems, we guarantee there will be something for everyone. "
Confucius Classroom - "Confucius Classrooms will be local hubs, based in a Scottish school or college, which will stimulate and support innovative teaching and learning of Chinese language and culture. They will be developed in partnership as part of International Education in Scottish schools."
Education World - The templates here can be downloaded from our site, saved to your hard drive, edited as necessary, and then printed. Or they can be downloaded, printed, and used as is. There are a few ice-breakers too!!
Family Education Network
Family Learning "All parents want their children to do well at school and to succeed. However, many simply don't know where to start. Everything seems to have changed since your own schooldays, and you don't want to confuse your children by using different methods to their teacher. Family Learning can help."
Fathers Direct - he National Information Centre on Fatherhood - "Welcome to Fathers Direct, the national information centre on fatherhood. We're here to help you harness the full potential of fatherhood with news, training information, policy updates, research summaries and guides for supporting fathers and their families."
Food and Drink Federation - foodlink is organised by the Food and Drink Federation which represents the UK food and drink manufacturing industry.
The foodlink programme has been running for 15 years and contains several strands of activity, all with the overarching objective of raising awareness amongst consumers of all ages about the simple steps that they can take to keep their food safe:
Free Education Downloads - "Free educational software for Windows that you can download and install on your own computer" - suitable for children.
Free Games Downloads
Free Online Games for girls.
Health Protection Scotland - "Scotland’s National Hand Hygiene campaign was launched in January 2007 and is being delivered by Health Protection Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Executive Health Department. This campaign is the first of its kind in the UK and its core aim is to improve hand hygiene and reduce avoidable illness. There are promotional materials to download, including a Children's Pack "Health promotion is an important issue and this includes raising awareness about hand washing to help reduce the spread of germs. Our aim is to raise the awareness of hand hygiene as early as possible, the sooner children get into the habit of washing their hands regularly, the better. "
IKnowthat.com "At IKnow that.com our goal is to help your child discover the magic - and power - of lifelong learning skills." There are really good free basic online education games here but you will have to pay for premium access.
LTS National Qualification for Standard Grade - "The materials are relevant to pupils following a National Qualification course at Standard Grade level".
Mathroom.co.uk - This site is a growing collection of links to Maths web resources and interactive teaching aids. Most are either teaching/demonstration resources or interactive activities for pupils to complete on-line.
Mary's Free Printables - A range of free printable fun resources for both adults and children. This is a US site.
Click image Maths is FunThe Idea - The idea behind the site is to offer mathematics as well as some fun bits, and to combine the two wherever possible. General - The main content of the site is aimed at basic math skills. However you will find some more complex stuff, and some easier bits. Hopefully there should be something for everybody.
Moms-Diner.com is happy to bring you a variety of Free Ebooks - recipes, coupons, and other great ebooks for busy moms like you. Enjoy!!
15 Free Sample Cookbooks - these 15 ebooks are in .pdf format - please read the downloading instructions before proceeding to open/download these three ebooks.
My Free Colouring Pages "Welcome to The Free Coloring Pages website, The Free Colouring website is designed to share a large selection of my free Children's pictures with others around the world. To read more about how the free colouring pages website started check out the About Us page."
My Child
About My Child My Child is the website for parents who want to know how to help their children with their education and make sure they stay healthy, have fun and get the best possible start in life. There are free downloads - but you will be required to register for them. The site has worksheets for children aged 8 - 11 - covers the English and Welsh curriculum but I'm sure all parents will find it useful. You will also get a free newsletter sent to you.
Nationanl Literacy Trust - Family Reading Campaign - Resources for parents and families.
National Geographic for Children
On The Money - "Change the way you think about money with this collection of stories from four of Scotland’s top children’s authors. They look at all sorts of things to do with money in fun and useful ways.The stories are guaranteed to make you laugh and think, and look at money as you never have before."
Owl and Mouse Educational - "Help your child learn with games, software and educational activities from Owl & Mouse Educational Software. Early reading software—phonics software, alphabet games, and Dolch sight words in a fairy tale story. All of it FREE! Free online USA maps, world maps, map of Europe, map puzzles of the US, Europe, Africa, Asia, and many more. You can build your own castle and coat of arms—free downloads."
Rainforest maths - Interactive online maths activities. This is an Australian link - but could be converted to British maths, It's fun anyway!!
Repeat After Us - "Welcome to our Worldwide Family of Learning! Created by a high school student, RepeatAfterUs is an award-winning online library with the best collection of copyright-free English texts and scripted recordings. Our free audio clips provide an excellent resource for students and literature lovers of all ages."
Tate Kids
TlsBooks - "Welcome to tlsbooks.com, where you'll find a variety of free printable worksheets for home and school use. Use our free worksheets to help your child gain valuable readiness skills or to reinforce material they may already be learning in school."
Teaching Ideas - "Welcome to Teaching Ideas! This site contains free lesson ideas, activities and resources, and they're all FREE for you to use in your classrooms!"
UP TO TEN -"UpToTen.com, the fun place to learn on-line - UpToTen Kids : 600 educational games and activities.
UpToTen Parents : practical ideas and advice. With loads of free games and downloads."
Woodlands Web - "Welcome to Woodlands Web our award winning interactive home on the Internet"The most visited school website in the country"
TES February 2007 "Kent's very own rival to Wikipedia"
Meridian Tonight 2007 ""A place where you can have fun by playing our learning games and activities. We have three pages full of Literacy Games, a huge section on maths games and activities, as well as fun science games".