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Get in the ‘Back to School’ mind-set and take a look at some of these free resources for Primary School teachers. This curation of content from the web covers all the main school subjects at KS1 and KS2 levels. The list also includes links to resources for teachers covering the areas of assessment and links to free online educational games for pupils.
Online Educational Games for Pupils
General Resources for the Classroom
Online Educational Games for Pupils
Funbrain has many educational games for pupils to play online, including number and word games to make maths and literacy lessons more fun.
Scholastic | Minibeast Maths (KS1)
An interactive game designed to improve particular areas of mathematics, including symmetry.
This websites hosts many free interactive games for KS1 and KS2 designed to make learning maths fun.
BBC | Helping Plants Grow Well
This interactive game teachers children ages 7-8 how to help plants grow well
Earth and Beyond | Online Game
This game is designed to educate children on the topic of space and the solar system and can be played by 1-4 players.
Classics for Kids | Online Music Games
This link points to four games that are all designed to help children learn about rhythms in music.
Here are some resources for teachers designed to aid the teaching of phonics to primary school-aged pupils. The list includes ideas for games, activities, and free revision/teaching materials.
Teacher’s Pet | KS2 Non-Fiction Writing Mats
This printable document outlines six different ways in which you can structure non-fiction writing. This is suitable for KS2 pupils.
World Book Day | Resources for Primary School
This link provides primary school teachers with free lesson plans and activity sheets based on World Book Day.
Scholastic | Victorian art activities (KS1)
Taking inspiration from Victorian art and architecture, explore line, tone, texture, colour and composition through the traditional genres of still life, landscape, and portraiture
Scholastic | Victorian art activities (KS2)
Taking inspiration from Victorian art and architecture, explore line, tone, texture, colour, and composition through the traditional genres of still life, landscape and portraiture.
Scholastic |The Ugly Bug Ball (KS1)
Most children love to draw – explore some practical activities to get your children excited about art.
Scholastic | It’s a Bug’s Life (KS2)
Most children love to draw – explore some practical activities to get your children excited about art.
Primary Resources| Book Ideas and Activities
This site offers teachers many free printouts and activities focussed on the area of reading – including book report outlines, character frameworks, and reading lists.
The School Run | Download Free English and Maths Worksheets
This website has over 100 free ready-to-print worksheets that cover maths and English lessons for KS1 and KS2.
Story Starts | Fun Ways to Write Stories
This website provides primary school-aged children with inspirational prompts in order to help them write their own stories.
Scholastic | Take 5… fun activities
Fun ways of developing children’s knowledge, skills, and understanding of geography
BBC Schools| Rivers and Coasts
This animation demonstrates the stages of the water cycle.
Primary Resources | Geography Resources
This list of printouts and activities covers the Geography portion of the primary school curriculum and includes maps and plans as well as information about transport, different cultures, rivers, and weather systems.
Primary Resources | History: General Activities
This list of activities and printouts covers many different eras of history including the Romans, Tudors, and Victorians – suitable for primary school-aged children.
Garden of Praise | Biographies for Kids Famous Leaders for Young Readers
This website contains biographies of historical figures that are suitable for young children to read. At the end of each article, pupils can answer quiz questions to test reading comprehension.
Myths and Legends | Interactive Stories
This resource lists many famous myths and legends from history and presents them as interactive stories that pupils can use a mouse to click and read through. The stories are also available to download onto your iPad.
Primary Resources | ICT: General Resources
This list of resources covers aspects of the ICT primary school curriculum including evaluation sheets, ICT skills planning documents, ‘how-to’ printouts, and information on issues like cyber-bullying.
Ideas to Inspire | 16 Ideas for ICT in the Early Years
This presentation presents 16 ideas for teaching ICT to KS1 Pupils, and includes access to downloadable content.
Simon Houghton | How to Teach Outstanding ICT
This eBook presents ideas and information to teachers on the subject of teaching ICT.
Primary Treasure Chest | Numbers and Multiplication Resources
This page contains printable booklets to help teachers teach multiplication tables to KS2 pupils.
Teacher’s Pet | Hundred Square Poster
This printable poster is designed to help pupils perform addition and subtraction with numbers up to 100.
Scholastic | Curriculum 2014 – Experts’ Views on the Draft Maths Programme of Study
This article offers an overview of experts’ reactions to the draft mathematics programme of study for 2014.
Scholastic| Music, maestro! (KS1)
From opera to the Can-Can, introduce your class to the delights of classical music with these fun-filled ideas.
Virtual Keyboard | Interactive Application
This virtual keyboard app includes drums and different instruments to complement the keyboard notes and demonstrates chords.
This page lists several games that involve singing songs, all of which are appropriate for KS1 pupils.
Oracle ThinkQuest | Sounds from the Orchestra
This graphic outlines all of the instruments that make up an orchestra.
This cool interactive graphic demonstrates prominent patterns in music including snares, bass, and lead.
Primary Resources | P.E. Resources
The following roundup of resources offers teachers ideas for P.E. activities including warm-up and wind downs, dance, striking and fielding games, and invasion games.
Primary Treasure Chest | Physical Education Resources
This page contains several downloadable documents and sets of flashcards for P.E. lessons, including equipment and sports labels and details of gross motor skills.
P.E. Central | Website for Health and Physical Education
This is an American website; however, there is a wealth of inspiration for P.E. lessons and articles about issues related to physical education – dealing with bullying, for example.
Primary Resources |P.S.H.E Resources
This list of resources contains printouts and activities based around aspects of PSHE and Citizenship, covering areas like self-esteem, being kind to others, and sharing feelings.
Channel 4 Learning | Beacons- Educational Programme Series – KS2
A link to a series of five 15-minute programmes covering many aspects of citizenship including relationships, peer pressure, racism, recycling, stealing, and more. The series is about a group of primary school pupils on an outdoor pursuits trip in Wales where individual characters face various dilemmas.
CAFOD Fair Trade | Explore our Resources
This link provides various resources for primary school teachers based on the subject of fair trade. Resources include assembly scripts, posters, quizzes, and presentation notes.
Infant Resources | R.E Worksheets (KS1)
This page links to free downloadable worksheets on important Christian and Jewish religious festivals.
CBeebies | Stories by Theme: World Stories
This link shows animations of 14 traditional stories from other cultures around the world.
Scholastic | Science – organise a fair test
This free PDF will help your pupils organise a fair scientific test.
Mrs Pancake | Food and Drink Classroom Resources
This website contains a range of printable information sheets and posters based on the areas of food and nutrition.
This website contains educational infographics and stunning images from space.
This resources roundup shows various activities related to physics, specifically forces, and includes links to games that demonstrate gravity, friction, floating, and sinking.
General Resources for the Classroom
Primary Resources | Other Resources
This link points to a list of general printouts and resources for primary school educators including assessment sheets, documents on transition from years 2-3, information on different learning styles, and more.
Infant Resources | Useful Proformas
This page contains free downloadable resources for teachers and includes a lesson planning sheet, class timetable, and a Foundation-stage weekly planning document.
Easy Learning HQ | A Breakdown of the 2014 Primary Curriculum
This post lists focusses on the 2014 National Curriculum for Primary Schools. As well as listing relevant areas of study, it also lists features of the 2013 curriculum that will no longer be relevant.
This website for teachers offers counselling, information, and research.
Teacher’s Pet | Key Stage One Visual Timetable
This visual timetable contains printable labels that outline daily routines in the classroom.
Teacher’s Pet | Key Stage Two Visual Timetable
This visual timetable contains printable labels that outline daily routines in the classroom.
Teacher’s Pet | Responsibility Poster
This A4 poster can be printed out and displayed in the classroom to teach pupils about individual responsibility.
Teacher’s Pet | T.H.I.N.K Poster
This poster can be displayed in classrooms and is designed to inspire good classroom behaviour and reminds pupils to think before they speak.
Infant Resources | Assessment Resources for Teachers
Various downloadable assessment criteria documents covering areas such as reading comprehension, writing, speaking, and listening and mathematics.
IXL | Key Maths Abilities from Reception to Year 11
This website outlines all of the key maths skills that pupils in all year groups need to develop as part of the curriculum.
Department for Education | Key dates and resources for 2013
This timetable for the new school year 2013 is for teachers and administrators of KS2 pupils taking the end-of-level English and Mathematics tests.
Department for Education | Assessment at Key Stage 2
A list of resources covering aspects of KS2 assessment for the new academic year (starting September 2013).
Department for Education | Assessment at Key Stage 1
A list of resources covering aspects of KS1 assessment for the new academic year (starting September 2013).
TES Connect | Primary teaching resources
Free resources for teachers of KS1 and KS2 including free lesson plans, worksheets, teaching ideas, activities, revision tips, and more.
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