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Educational websites to help support your child during school closures

18th Mar 2020

Dear Parents, 

Please find a list of educational websites to help support your child's learning during the school closures:

A huge range of resources for all subjects and includes resources matched to the N. Ireland curriculum.

 

This site has both literacy and maths games to try.

 

Daily ten and Hit the Button provide good Maths practice.

 

Purple Mash is a website designed for children aged 3-11.  It contains many creative tools i.e. coding, animation, publishing, art and also applications for maths, spelling and grammar.

 

Includes interactive simulations, quizzes and games that can easily be used for online learning.

 

Free themed bundles of fun printable activities for children - including puzzles, colouring pages, fun worksheets and more.

 

Learn a language for free.  It offers interactive exercises and can feel like a game and it starts at your level, from a beginner to advanced.

 

Browse and read eBooks at your child's reading level and complete activities on each book.

 

Read or listen to kitaboo books and discuss these great fiction and nonfiction books with your child.

 

If you are a member of librariesni and have an account you can download books to read and listen to.

 

  • Oliver Jeffers A great N. Ireland author will be reading a book a day.  Check out his Facebook page for more information.  For those of you with Alexa at home.

 

An excellent website to research fun facts, explore the world around us, watch videos to discover amazing facts and much more.

 

Bamboo Learning Alexa skills focus on fun, home-based, family-friendly learning and ensure children's engagement utilizing the unique nature of voice technology.

 

Draw with Rob http://www.robbiddulph.com/draw-with-rob

A great website for art lessons for kids.  Draw along with Rob and upload your drawings to the gallery.