Links

These useful links can help your child in their learning at home. Some are general educational sites and others are theme related

Site title	Description
Ask Jeeves for Children	A safe way of using the internet to find out the answers to your questions

BBC-Schools	Fun learning resources for school and at home from the BBC

Converting currency	A site where pupils can solve real life problems within the context of converting currency.

Dept of Education Parents Centre	This site tells you about your child's education and how you can help

Education in Gloucestershire	Information about education in Gloucestershire for example, how to find a school, term dates and news.

Games and puzzles	A site containing maths puzzles and games for children. The site also contains heights for some mountains in the data section.

Ideas for the Kids	A useful website for child friendly days out, venues and attractions.

Literacy resource	Useful literacy resource with a good on line dictonary and thesaurus.

MathsZone	A useful maths sites with lots of interactive online maths games

National Gallery Website	An excellent resource for parents, teachers and pupils to find about artists and their work. Materials can also be bought on line.

National Geographic	Particularly useful for Years 5 and 6.

National Grid for Learning	A network of selected sites providing high quality educational content and information.

News website for children	An excellent site for children where current news events are presented in an atractive and easily accessable format.

NRICH	Interesting maths activities made fun for children. NRICH has thousands of members from 100 countries and many more regular users. Everything is free.

Ordnance Survey's web site dedicated to 7-14 year olds	Children can use maps to find places to visit and tell others about them so they can visit too. The site has a section where children can play games and find information to help them with their homework.

Parent Governors Representative Network	This site is funded by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) and managed by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER). There are Parent Governor Representatives (PGRs) in each local education authority (LEA) in England and their role is to represent the voice of parents on local education committees.

Railtrack Time tables	A good site for pupils planning journeys and for practising the 24 hour clock.

Rivers and Coasts	An excellent website where animations clearly explain the water cycle and the physical processes of erosion, transportation and deposition.

Romans	Yet another good website from the BBC. Children can find out about the Roman invasion, the army, roads and places to name but a few. The site also offers activities, a glossary and a time line. Well worth a visit.

Schoolzone	Over 38,000 free educational resources reviewed by UK teachers - includes software, lessons, resources, books and much more.

TES	The on-line version of the Times Educational Supplement

Victorians	An interactive website where children can find out what life was like for Victorian children for example the type of work that they did and school life

Woodlands Junior School	The world famous school website which boasts 11,000 pages of easy to read information to support learners of all ages.