Pupil and Parent Resources and Links

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Below you will find various links and resources to help your child with their learning.

Useful Websites

BBC Bitesize Primary Games

Play fun and educational games for primary students. Explore the page to discover lots of science, maths, history and English games.

Top Marks

Topmarks is a free educational website that offers a wide range of interactive games, activities and learning resources to support children’s learning across many areas of the curriculum. The engaging, child-friendly activities help reinforce key skills while making learning enjoyable both at school and at home. You can search for nearly every area within maths and have the opportunity to play interactive games to practice skills.

Literacy and Numeracy Resources

Literacy in the Foundation Stage (Primary 1 - Primary 2)

Balloon Phonics (Top Marks)

Balloon Phonics is a phonics reading game for young children which focuses on three letter words (consonant-vowel-consonant or CVC). It is aimed at children who are working on the phonemes in Stage 2 of the Letters and Sounds programme.

Literacy in Key Stage 1 (Primary 3 - Primary 4)

Word Wall Activities

Wordwall is an interactive learning website that provides pupils with fun and engaging games, quizzes and activities to reinforce their learning across a wide range of subjects. Teachers can create or share activities that help children practise key skills, review knowledge and build confidence through enjoyable, interactive tasks that can be used both in school and at home. This website is great for practising high frequency words

Phonics Play

PhonicsPlay is an interactive online learning platform that helps children develop their phonics, reading and spelling skills through fun games and activities. It supports pupils in learning letter sounds, blending sounds to read words, segmenting words for spelling, and building confidence in early reading. The games are engaging, age-appropriate and closely linked to phonics teaching in schools, making learning both effective and enjoyable.

Literacy in Key stage 2 (Primary 5 - Primary 7)

Accelerated Reader

Accelerated Reader is a reading programme that helps children develop a lifelong love of reading while improving their comprehension and literacy skills. Pupils choose books at an appropriate level, complete short quizzes to check their understanding, and track their progress as they grow in confidence and become more independent readers.

Quizzes can only be taken during certain hours and check with your teacher if you are not sure about your username / password.

Please check with your teacher before you take any quizzes at home as certain classes prefer to allow time in school hours to take your quizzes. Please note, only take a quiz if you have fully read the book (not just the movie!!).

Numeracy Resources

Numeracy in the Foundation Stage (Primary 1 - Primary 2)

Buds number garden (BBC)

Build and test maths skills.

Learn and practise:

Recognising numbers
Counting numbers
Ordering numbers
Sequencing numbers

See the Amount (BBC)

In See the Amount children can:

Practise recognising numbers 1 to 10
Subitise up to 5 – see quantities without counting
Develop reasoning skills and explore the composition of numbers to 10
Recognise familiar number patterns and find number pairs
Play hide and reveal number challenges

Numeracy in Key Stage 1 (Primary 3 - Primary 4)

Karate Cats Maths

Improve your KS1 maths skills. The elite team of Karate Cats have completed their training and are now ready to compete to be maths champions! Join the Karate Cats. Earn the bronze, silver and gold cups in lots of maths topics in this new adventure. These cats love to dress up! Play a new set of challenges as you train in the dojo and collect more costumes for the Karate Cats to wear.

Learn and practise:

Space Shoppers - Money in Maths (BBC)

Build your primary maths skills on understanding money and improving financial literacy in this KS1 maths game.

Learn and practise how to:

use place value to understand the value of different coins and notes
recognise symbols for pounds (£) and pence (p)
find the total value of a set of coins and notes
make the same amount by combining coins and notes of different values
give the correct change
solve simple problems involving the addition and subtraction of money

Numeracy in Key Stage 2 (Primary 5 - Primary 7)

IXL

IXL is an online learning platform that helps children practise and strengthen their skills in Maths and English through engaging, personalised activities. It adapts to each child's level, provides instant feedback, and allows pupils to learn at their own pace while building confidence and understanding. Ask your teacher for your login details if you're not sure what it is.

The World Around Us

National Geographic Kids

Games, videos, puzzles, quizzes and much more relating to various different topics including:

Space
Ancient Greece
Bugs
Transport
Animals
Egypt
Rome
How things work ...and much much more!