Links
Here are some links to external sites you may find useful. They are grouped under headings to give you a rough idea of their content. To jump straight to the heading that interests you, click one of the buttons below. If you want to return to this menu, click a blue button.
   
Search Engines
General search engine with no advertising. Usually finds most things.
Search engine site with its own content.
Search engine site with its own content.
Searches all search engines simultaneously.
 
General Education
A site for teachers and parents that covers all aspects of the curriculum.
4 to 11 - Games, activities and homework help across the primary curriculum.
11 to 16 - Games, activities and homework help across the secondary curriculum.
Preschool - Activities for parents and young children to share.
Revisewise - An excellent site for Key Stage 2 SATs revision in English, maths and science.
Games and adventures across the curriculum.
Maths and English games for Key Stage 1 children.
Miss Maggie's Earth Aid. An adventure game incorporating maths, literacy and science activities.
I Know That. A site with plenty of maths, literacy, IT and history activities.
An online typing course for all ages to improve those keyboard skills.
Maths and history treasure trails, amongst other things. Scroll down page when it loads to find them.
A site covering lots of key skills for 4 to 8-year-olds.
Teachers' site providing instant resources for school and class assemblies.
You'll find lots of funny school plays on this site.
Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. The site of the organisation responsible for the SATs.
The government's site dedicated to educational issues. Great if you want to know about the latest green paper.
Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools. A site containing information about the 500+ top prep schools in the UK and around the world.
Independent Schools Council information service.
Links for everything.
   
 
English
Education branch of the main site. Crammed full of literacy resources.
This site will help you find a rhyme for practically any word. Handy for those poetry homeworks. Also contains lots of fun literacy resources.
Everything you wanted to know about poets and poetry. Also has competitions for you to enter.
A site based on Ladybird books, with lots of online stories for young children and parents to share.
The Peter Rabbit site. A really delightful site based on the works of Beatrix Potter.
If your brain has gone AWOL and you can't remember what that acronym stands for, this is the site for you.
   
 
Maths
Superb site run by the University of Cambridge. Maths games, problems, puzzles and information.
Has teachers' and parents' areas, tips on how to help with homework and loads of games.
A general maths site - lots of games and loads of links to other maths sites.
Oh yes it is. Tables practice, an online bookshop and maths games.
This link will take you to the puzzles and games page of Mathsnet.
Cute maths site for younger children, based on the BBC programme, Number Time.
A very different site and well worth a visit. It's a puzzle story in 12 weekly instalments. Fab.
More than 999 maths problems for older or more able mathematicians.
Puzzlespace. Unusual site with puzzles, magic, logic problems and numerology.
Science
A site devoted to the human body, illness and health education.
A detailed look at the workings of the human body, with enough information to satisfy the most taxing research homework.
Information site containing facts about the animals and ecology of rainforests. Type 'hello' as your user name and 'enter' as your password.
Lots about dinosaurs and other natural history. Worth a look if you're planning a visit.
Website of the Science Museum.
Worth a look, if only to see what's on at the Imax cinema.
The National Aeronautics and Space Agency website. Full of stuff about being an astronaut.
Another NASA site, this time dedicated to space flight.
A must for any space fans. A huge archive of amazing images from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Arty the Part-Time Astronaut. A site to satisfy children's enthusiasm for all things space-related.
WellTown. Lovely site for younger children, looking at the body and health.
Optical illusions, scientific curiosities, visual effects and a little magic.
   
 
Art
Covering all aspects of art contained in its collections.
Education branch of the Salford-based gallery's website. Great if you happen to be studying L S Lowry. That means you, Upper 3.
The Van Gogh Museum. Has images of its complete collection.
For those interested in the work of Yorkshire's finest sculptor.
An online archive of the Kandinsky collection
Nothing to do with onion-flavoured herbs. It's a terrible pun, but the site contains images by over 200 well-known artists.
Resources for parents, teachers and children.
   
History
Facts, games and quizzes about the Tudors.
Facts, games and quizzes about the Romans.
Ancient Egypt site based at the British Museum. Uses real artefacts to teach about life in ancient Egypt.
Mark Millmore's Ancient Egypt site. Very informative.
Guest what? It's a site dedicated to English kings and queens.
Links, games and historical information for all ages.
A broad history resource for teachers.
The site of the Royal Armouries museum based at Leeds.
Design in the days of the Empire at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
History for those studying at Key Stage 3 and beyond. Or perhaps your interest just extends beyond the confines of the primary curriculum.
A BBC Landmarks site.
Find out about the daily lives of this fascinating civilisation.
   
Geography
Lots of weather facts and satellite pictures.
Where In The World Is Barnaby Bear? Site for young geographers.
Another BBC site, this time providing a virtual tour of the planet.
   
ICT
Teaching Ideas. A great place to start learning about the internet.
Free animations for pepping up those presentations.
Government lead agency promoting ICT in education.
Music
Not a link to the main Radio 3 site, but to a collection of online activities. Compose, arrange and mix your own music.
A site dedicated to all things Beethoven.
Designed and run by teachers for anyone who teaches music.