Educational websites
Please find below some educational & fun websites to help support your child 's remote learning.
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PE at Home Hinckley and Bosworth school sport and physical activity Challenges
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PE at Home Youth sport trust after school sports club activities
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PE at Home Hinckley and Bosworth school sport and physical activity Challenges
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Audio Books- Gutenberg There are more than 50,000 free ebooks, but not all of them are audiobooks. The books are shared freely here because their copyrights have expired.
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Audio Books - Children's Library A library for the world's children, this site contains thousands of books in more than 60 languages.
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Audio Books - Story Nory This site offers free audio downloads of classic fairy tales, world fairy tales, fables, 1001 Nights, and more.
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BBC Bitesize The BBC's Bitesize website covers all areas of the curriculum. It's free and includes animation, revision flashcards and interactive sections to help your child learn.
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BBC History for Kids From famous battles to ancient wars, kids can learn all about the history of Britain, as well as other countries on this fun website. BBC History for kids also teaches children about historical figures, such as Shakespeare, Napoleon Bonaparte and Martin Luther King.
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Bible Chat Bible Chat allows people of all ages to read the Bible and have conversation together. The sheets can be coloured and doodled on, allowing children to respond to the Bible story in their own unique way.
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Bible Stories Children's book containing a variety of stories from the Bible.
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Bommerang Boomerang is a highly engaging, fun and fast website, featuring children's favourites like Scooby-Doo and Tom & Jerry. The 'let's create' section has a great selection of crafts and recipes for children to try, as well as some great colouring in pages.
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CBeebies CBeebies has some great learning games, quizzes and a huge selection of topics to explore.
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Cool Maths This American website (hence the name Math, not Maths) is a great way to help improve your child's sums and ability with numbers. Cool Math $ kids has puzzles, brain teasers and fun way to do maths
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Fisher-Price Play Fisher Price has a lot of interesting play and learning ideas — select your child’s age from the ranges provided. With step-by-step instructions, Fisher-Price highlights the learning skills your child will be developing while having fun with you!
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Funology One for the parent to explore. Funology offers parents a great selection of kid's recipes, science experiments, magic tricks to try, games to play, as well as clever jokes and trivia.
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Guiness World Records Inspire your child to become a record breaker with a visit to the Guiness World Record for Kids website. Learn about existing records held and watch interviews and videos capturing all those weird and wonderful records from around the world.
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Health for Kids Articles and advice to help keep your child healthy and happy
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History for Kids History For Kids is a collection of short, funny poems for children, based on stories from days gone by – the California gold rush, the Boston Tea Party, Ancient Greece, Vikings, and lots more!
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ICT games This website provides free educational games aimed at children between 5 and 8 years old.
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LCC Family learning Leicestershire Adult Learning Service website gives free access to activities and information to support home schooling (Reception, KS1 and KS2) and keeping children entertained. There are craft activities, links to other websites, worksheets, information sheets, curriculum information. We will be adding more content each week.
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Learning Games for Kids Learning Games for Kids has lots of learning games for children - divided into school year groups - so that you can find the right level of games for your child. It covers everything from vocabulary to geography, literature and maths.
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National Geographic Kids National Geographic Kids is great for children aged six to 13 years old. It has some stunning images and interactive games and colouring books. A lovely site for children to learn more about animals, wildlife and the world around them.
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Now Press Play At Home Free home learning package containing access to four of our most popular Experiences and follow-on resources: We've made sharing the Experiences with parents and carers really easy, and I'm sure they'll welcome a fun, active and easy-to-use resource for home-learning.
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Numberblocks The website teaches children numeracy including simple arithmetic.
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Oxford Owls Oxford Owl is aimed at children aged three to 11 years old and is free to use. It helps children learn reading and maths, and there are also top tips for parents to help your child with their learning. There are also over 250 free ebooks.
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Phonics Play A site packed with interactive phonics games, phonics planning, assessment ideas and many teaching ideas and resources to help children to learn to their phonics.
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Spelling Frame National Curriculum for Spelling for Year 1 to Year 6
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Seesaw Create activities for students
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Topmarks Top Marks is an independent educational website. It’s free to use and links through to useful online resources for subjects including maths, science and languages.
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The School Run The School Run gives parents all the tools you need to understand what and how your child is learning at primary school.
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TTS Group A curriculum-focused independent learning resource with over 40 home learning activities all planned and all prepared!
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Twinkl Twinkl has been written to address the aims of the 2014 curriculum. It includes detailed lesson plans, lesson presentations, creative and differentiated lesson activities and resources, home learning tasks, challenge cards, fact cards, eye catching display packs, key vocabulary grids and formative assessment materials.