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1. GetNetWise

   

   GetNetWise is a US-based public service designed to ensure users enjoy safe, secure and educational experiences online.

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2. 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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3. Thinkuknow 11-16s

   

   Young people aged 11-16 can use this site to find out more about having a good experience online and what to do about a bad experience.

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4. 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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5. Hectors World™

   

   Children aged 5, 6 or 7 can learn all about e Safety through the animated Hector’s World, featured on the Thinkuknow 5-7s website.

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6. Thinkuknow for parents

   

   Thinkuknow helps parents to understand different communications technologies, how children use them, how to minimise the risks and protect children online.

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7. 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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8. Dongle the Rabbit

   

   Dongle, the rabbit, stars on the cBBC Stay Safe website and is a fun cartoon character who helps young children learn how to surf safely.

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9. 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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10. SoundJunction

    

    SoundJunction lets people listen to, explore and discover music, musical styles, backgrounds and instruments. You can find out how music works, how people make music and how to create it yourself.

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11. NRICH

    

    NRICH aims to enrich the experience of all learners of maths through games, problems and articles designed to develop subject knowledge, problem-solving and mathematical thinking skills at all key stages.

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12. BBC Languages

    

    Brush up on modern foreign languages learnt in school or take a 12 week beginners’ course in something new via the BBC Languages site.

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13. Robots

    

    The Robot Constructor game, on the Channel 4 website, lets you try your hand at designing a virtual robot that you put to the test in one of the hazard-filled zones.

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14. Teach PE

    

    A large collection of interactive resources and quizzes for learners to study and assess themselves, great for students studying GCSE PE.  Learn all about physiology, performance, endurance and fitness.

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15. WebQuests

    

    WebQuests, from the National Museums Online Learning Project, offer high quality online educational tools for young people to use in ‘treasure hunt’ style investigations.

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16. Mission to Morecambe

    

    Mission to Morecambe is an online game that engages students in exploring some key philosophical ideas in RE, based on the notion that we don’t see things as they really are.

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17. Human Body & Mind

    

    BBC Science & Nature offers a set of interactive online games that help students get to grips with muscles, organs, the skeleton and nervous system.

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18. A Roman Murder Mystery

    

    How would you like to be a CSI investigator in Roman Britain? This website teaches young people about life on the Roman frontier of Hadrian’s Wall through the study of an archaeological murder mystery.

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19. UNIT the Robot

    

    UNIT the Robot is a character in number works. Children have to enter instructions to control UNIT in his fun tasks.

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20. Awards ceremony

    

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

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21. Look, cover, write

    

    This site is really useful to help children practise their spelling. You can adapt the resource by clicking on new lists of spellings.

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22. Sebastian’s rhyme

    

    The ‘Sebastian Swan big books’ are used within the literacy hour in schools. Using these online resources at home will reinforce your child’s literacy and ICT skills.

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23. Legula Adventure

    

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

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24. Tate Kids

    

    For your chance to practise art skills at home, try out the games at Tate online. Create an imaginary city, paint a masterpiece or become a virtual Banksy with on-screen street art.

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25. MapZone®

    

    MapZone®, from Ordnance Survey, is a fully interactive website that brings mapping skills to life for young people.

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26. 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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27. Nature explorers

    

    Nature explorers lets your child make a virtual investigation of three different habitats – pond, woodland and grassland.

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28. Wolf & Rabbit

    

    Wolf & Rabbit is Umapalata’s fun educational game that helps primary schoolchildren practise the four arithmetic operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

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29. 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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30. 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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31. 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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32. 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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33. Exploring Perspective

    

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

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34. 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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35. 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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36. 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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37. 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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38. 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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39. 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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40. 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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41. Beside the Seaside

    

    Beside the Seaside offers a selection of simple geography activities for younger children, featuring Blackpool and other UK seaside towns.

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42. 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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43. 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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44. Oxfam

    

    The Oxfam site gives young people the opportunity to research and learn about some of the issues affecting the world today.

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45. Myths and Legends

    

    This site is for all those who enjoy stories and storytelling. The British Isles is rich in myths, folktales and legends.
    

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46. A Step Back in Time

    

    A Step Back in Time from the BBC is a lively interactive game designed for children aged 5-7 to read along with a parent and have fun studying Key Stage 1 history.

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47. 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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48. 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. 

    Try out Primary Spanish: learn more

49. 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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50. 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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51. 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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52. 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.

    Try out Primary Spanish: start here