Primary Other Subjects

Key Stage 1 - Key Stage 2

Other Subjects - Key Stage 1

Famous People

This BBC site features the life and times of famous people like Christopher Columbus, Pocahontas, George Stephenson, Florence Nightingale, Edward Jenner, Elizabeth Fry, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Mary Seacole, Samuel Pepys and Henry VIII.

Shape Faces

This activity introduces the form of art known as Cubism. It shows how artists use shapes to make abstract pictures. Children can then make their own face in a similar style and print it out if they want.

Barnaby Bear

Super activities and online stories of Barnaby Bear's travels.

Where we live

Learn about the different sorts of homes people live in. A Welsh site so one activity is more applicable to pupils in Wales, but the rest are appropriate for any area of the UK.

Warm and Cold Colours

A lesson and game designed for Year 2 children (6-7 years) about warm and cold colours.

Musical Mysteries

Have fun solving the musical mysteries on this BBC site. Children can compose their own music and find out about different sounds, rhythms, moods and musical instruments.

Harvest Photo Book

An illustrated big book about why Christians celebrate harvest.

Location

An excellent site with interactive activities relating to positional language. Parents can use the site to help their child learn the language of where things are placed.

Chinese New Year Song

Gung Hay Fat Choy is a simple action song for Chinese New Year celebrations. The words are displayed and you can listen to the audio and sing or play along.

Treasure Hunt

Outlines the various features of a church. Children can then complete a crossword quiz, by looking at the text to find the solutions.

Creating a Sound Picture

A teacher lesson resource to help pupils produce their own music with instruments.

Make a Face

See if you can make faces to match feelings such as happy, sad and angry in this simple game.

Other Subjects - Key Stage 2

Children in Victorian Britain

Choose the Interactive full-screen version of this BBC site which is designed for 9 to 11 year olds. There are learning movies, games and worksheets based on the themes children at work, children at play and children at school.

Are You Eco Friendly?

An appealing adventure style game for 7 to 9 year olds where you can take part in fun missions for the 'Environmental Intelligence Unit'. See how you can help to save our planet. It's fun!

See you see me - Landscapes

A great Flash site for learning mapping skills. Designed for 7 to 9 year olds.

Creation

A beautiful, animated creation story as told in the Holy Bible. It has a musical accompaniment.

Treasure Hunt

The site outlines the various features of a church. Children can then complete a crossword quiz, by looking at the text to find the solutions.

Musical Mysteries

Have fun solving the musical mysteries on this BBC site. Children can compose their own music and find out about different sounds, rhythms, moods and musical instruments.

Chinese New Year Song

Gung Hay Fat Choy is a simple action song for Chinese New Year celebrations. The words are displayed and you can listen to the audio and sing or play along.

Creating a Sound Picture

A teacher lesson resource to help pupils produce their own music with instruments.

Make a Face

See if you can make faces to match feelings such as happy, sad and angry in this simple game.

Clicmap

A teaching tool which generates different maps of the UK and the world.

Landscape Van Gogh Style

The site discusses the techniques that Van Gogh used on a featured landscape painting and then you can make a picture yourself in his style. There is an option to download the site to your hard drive.

Circles in Pictures

In this activity you can explore the use of circles in pictures. Look at a picture based on the work of the artist Kandinsky and make your own circles using a colour palette and tool bar.

Games Coaching Tool

A nifty tool for netball, football, rugby and rounders coaching.

Mapping our World

Bring key geographical concepts to life with Oxfam's free teaching resource. Mapping our World helps pupils explore the difference between a map and a globe, and how different map projections affect how we see the world.