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Your selections: Key stage 2 (7-11 years)

1. e Safety Games

   

   This set of fun, fast games makes it quick and easy for the whole family to test their knowledge of e Safety.

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2. Cyber Café

   

   Children aged 8-10 can learn how to stay safe while using email, chat areas, mobiles and other new technologies by visiting the Cyber Café on the Thinkuknow 8-10s website.

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3. Know IT All for Parents

   

   Childnet’s Know IT All for Parents helps the whole family learn more about using mobile phones and the internet more responsibly and safely.

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4. Kidsmart

   

   Kidsmart introduces the SMART rules of online safety and teaches children how to use different technologies more safely - from mobiles to music, from games to social networking. 

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5. Awards ceremony

   

   Awards ceremony is an online resource for ordering numbers, from single digits to numbers with two decimal places.

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6. Legula Adventure

   

   Learndirect is encouraging you to challenge your kids to a journey of fun and discovery.

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7. Helping children to learn at home

   

   By supporting your child's learning and development at home, you can have a real impact on how well they succeed at school and beyond. This site contains a range of support kits for parents and carers, to help you get involved with your child’s education at home.

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8. Virtual body

   

   The Virtual Body is an online resource to help improve knowledge about the human body, with activities focusing on the human brain, the skeleton, human heart and digestive tract.

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9. Making CVC Words

   

   This very simple interactive activity from Priory Woods School in Middlesbrough helps with home learning to spell three-letter CVC (consonant vowel consonant) words.

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10. SymbolWorld Stories

    

    Children who find difficulty in reading can be helped to visualise the meaning of words through symbols. SymbolWorld’s stories use simple clear symbols that represent a single idea or concept.

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11. Talking Story Books

    

    Talking Story Books, developed by Priory Woods School, uses simple technology to enable and motivate children to develop more confident literacy skills. Switch users can also use the resources. 

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12. A. Pintura Art Detective

    

    A. Pintura Art Detective is an art history adventure developed by Educational Web Adventures. ‘The Case of Grandpa’s Painting’ helps children learn about the work of famous artists in an interesting fashion.

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13. Exploring Perspective

    

    This simple online tool helps children explore how perspective is used to make pictures look more realistic.

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14. The Journey to Darkest Somewhere

    

    Join Dab and Plip on their quest to find their friend, Finias T Waggletog. Along your way you’ll travel through sand and snow and meet some exciting and scary characters! Safe journey!

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15. Tootin’ Reindeer

    

    Tootin’ Reindeer is one of a number of free learning games to support literacy and numeracy that can be used with a range of assistive input devices, including switches, touch screens and pointing devices.

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16. One Switch

    

    The One Switch website offers a range of free games for download, each one adapted so that it can be played by a user able only to operate a single switch device.

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17. SENSwitcher

    

    SENSwitcher is an online switch-enabled suite of activities designed to help teach early ICT skills to people with profound and multiple learning difficulties. 

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18. Baa Baa Black Sheep

    

    Baa Baa Black Sheep on the CBeebies website has been specifically created by the BBC and parent-led charity, TreeHouse, for children on the autism spectrum.

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19. Big Calculator

    

    The Big Calculator can be downloaded for free from Sensory Software International Ltd who specialise in software to help disabled users do things that others take for granted.

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20. New Age Kurling

    

    New Age Kurling is a new game on the HelpKidzLearn website that encourages learners to improve their skills in using assistive technology switches by competing in this online sports game. 

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21. Two Cities

    

    The Two Cities website from the BBC is a useful tool for parents to engage with children studying Key Stage 2 geography.

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22. Explore the Mary Rose

    

    Explore the Mary Rose is an interactive website designed to help children aged 7-11 learn about the history of the famous Tudor warship while developing key skills needed to interpret history.

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23. Media Smart

    

    Media Smart helps young children to develop their media literacy by thinking about and questioning different kinds of media, especially advertising.

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24. Moving Toy Mechanisms

    

    This interactive website teaches children about design and technology in a fun way. They learn about cams, gears, levers and pulleys and how they affect movement in mechanisms.

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25. Primary Spanish: learn more

    

    This BBC Schools site follows on from the Primary Spanish: start here resource and aims to encourage children to use the Spanish phrases they’ve learnt and find out more about the Spanish-speaking world. 

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26. Levers and Linkages

    

    Younger children can use this website from the Northumberland Grid for Learning to explore how levers and linkages work.

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27. Chez Mimi

    

    The Chez Mimi website is based on the Channel 4 series of the same name and uses interactive games to make learning French as fun as possible.

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28. Hennings Haus

    

    The Hennings Haus website is based on the Channel 4 series of the same name and uses interactive games to make learning German as fun as possible.

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29. Primary Spanish: start here

    

    This BBC Schools site has a colourful section to help the youngest learners get to grips with some of the most useful and simple Spanish phrases.

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