Early Years / Foundation Stage
www.welltown.gov.uk/menu.htm Visit the Health Centre, the House, the School, and The Park. This site has uses for PSHE ( how to make simple choices to improve health and well-being, how some diseases can be spread and controlled ) and Science work ( about the role of drugs as medicines.)
www.thegrid.org.uk/learning/pshe/early/index.htm lesson plans f from Hertfordshire grid for learning site with many topics to support PSHE and C including how to deal with children trying to cope with these aspects of life.
www.getty.edu/artsednet/resources/Sampler/a.html using art to help children express thoughts and feelings.
www.bbc.co.uk/education/id/teachers_me_1_2.html Friendship is the theme of these pages.
www.childline.org.uk/Teacherspack.asp learning about respect. A free downloadable teacher resource.
www.nurseryrhymes4u.com Nursery rhymes , poems and songs, with some colouring pages to print and do.
www.snaithprimary.eril.net/nursery.htm Unscramble the nursery rhymes. This could be good to use on an Interactive Whiteboard too.
www.downingm.freeserve.co.uk/rhymelistalpha.htm A set of nursery rhymes on black background but with colourful illustrations.
www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/teletubbies/nurseryrhymes/index.shtml With real player you can hear the Nursery Rhyme songs.
www.hendersonville-pd.org/nurseryoldmc.html with music to some of the more popular nursery rhymes.
www.communitykit.ik.com This site will help you design and build a simple website to tell people about the unit you work in.
http://web.portsmouth.biblio.net/Teacher_Resources/early_years/eymanagers_file.htm This is an Early Years manager’s file ( from Portsmouth ).
www.neelb.org.uk/cass/earlyyears/resourc/zy00056l.htm This page is full of links to websites of all kinds to help you plan, deliver, assess work in the Early Years.
www.hants.gov.uk/school/ranvilles/ranvilles2/index.htm includes useful resources for teaching phonics, spelling, vocabulary, number and map work.
www.theideabox.com Lots of ideas for activities, printable, recipes, songs etc.
www.kidspsych.org/oochy.html Games for children aged 1 to 5, or 6 to 9.
www.funbrain.com Follow the links to find games for children 6 years old and under.
www.cricksoft.com/cgfl/uk Free Clicker Grid resources
www.naturegrid.org.uk/infant On-line Big books for Little Ones; use with Interactive Whiteboard or simply projector and screen.
www.underfives.co.uk Ideas for planning, downloadable stuff and much more, a general site with links to other pages with content suitable for under 5’s.
www.firstschoolyears.com/art/artlinks.htm A variety of art links.
www.thebigbus.com is available on subscription at £90 per nursery school, or £120 per primary school, per annum ( inc VAT ) or try it for the first 28 days and remember to cancel the subscription. ( Free demo CD on application.).
The site has a number of useful activities supporting ages from 3-11.
www.yourchildlearns.com/lettersounds.htm downloadable letter sounds and activities.
www.planolibrary.org/children/preschool.htm -The Bookclub has E-books and downloadable Powerpoint e-books, for early years upwards, simple quizzes and games which could be used with Interactive Whiteboards. Useful links to other sites.
www.funschool.com This site has activities from pre-school upwards, games with educational value.
www.billybear4kids.com online animated storybooks but a grownup will need to read them to tinies and free downloadables
www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/7726/preschoolsites.htm This page links to lots of other useful site for people working with younger children.
www.bobsedulinks.com/early_learn.htm#Interactive%20Learning This site has lots of links to other sites, with brief explanations like this as to their content.
www.primarygames.com. Maths games, literacy activities such as contractions, word search, spelling-long vowels, short vowels, blends, digraphs etc., and storybooks.
www.abcteach.com- basic activities for supporting reading, writing, maths, comprehension, activities based on themes such as Animals, Habitats etc and Fun things such as crossword puzzles, word searches, number puzzles etc.
www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/teletubbies
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/index.shtml
www.bbc.co.uk/education/dynamo/home.shtml Dynamo – pages for 5 – 9 year olds.
www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies is a useful site for songs to sing, games, storybooks and printables etc. suitable for younger children.
www.hitentertainment.com/bobthebuilder has opportunities for games, simple counting, and spelling, colouring and designing.
www.hitentertainment.com This site also links to other children’s tv related sites such as Barney, Pingu and Art Attack.
www.thomasthetankengine.com has matching games and jigsaws ( could be used with Interactive whiteboard), matching dots ( number sequencing from 1) take ‘photos’ of Thomas and friends
If you are in a Wigan LEA school you will have passwords in school to gain access to:-
Primary Zone which has activities for 4-11 year olds on Numeracy, Literacy and Science.
( see www.wiganschoolsonline.net for resources matched to objectives sheets for each of these areas of the curriculum. )
Anglia Campus has activities to support all subject areas, both Primary and Secondary.
@school which has early years activities listed under e ( for early years ).
Note: This LEA subscription will eventually expire and if you like it, subscription costs will be listed on the @school site and qualifies for e-learning credits.