Parent Resource Finder

Your selections: Key stage 1 (5-7 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. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. Nature explorers

    

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

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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. Exploring Perspective

    

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

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17. 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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18. 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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19. 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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20. 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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21. 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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22. 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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23. 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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24. 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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25. 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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26. 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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27. 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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28. 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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29. 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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30. 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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