Useful Websites

During this challenging time, we want to provide you with details of websites that can be accessed at home to support children’s learning and development specifically for the early years. Please find a list of suggested websites below. We hope you find this information useful and enjoy using these sites to enhance your child’s learning experiences at home! Please also think about finding the right balance for you when using screen time!

Please do remember to review the sites ahead of time so that you are able to help your children find the best resources available within the sites. Some offer a great number of games, songs, stories, videos etc. so it is important to know the site in order to support and develop your child’s learning.

http://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm

Great site with some free phonics games

http://www.phonicsplaycomics.co.uk/comics.html

Practise your phonics whilst reading simple comics

www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies

Many games often recognised by children from their favourite programmes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/eyfs/

Links to particular cbeebies games from areas of learning.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories

Cbeebies stories and rhymes.

http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/

Interactive books and reading activities to share with your child at home.

http://www.funwithspot.com/

New and improved! Try creating your own Spot story.

www.sebastianswan.org.uk

Books for reading together with links to understanding of the world (good for natural science).

http://www.ictgames.com/

Some excellent numeracy and literacy resources

http://www.ictgames.com/looCoverWriteCheck/LCWC_demo/index.html

Good for spelling high frequency and tricky words!

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html

Lots of maths and literacy games

www.boowakwala.com

Many games and songs including those relating to festivals.

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?Subject=37

Games of varying quality to support different areas of learning.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/

The Little animals’ activity centre - plenty of good quality activities to support learning

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/story/sbi.shtml

The Little animals’ activity centre – stories

www.abc.net.au/children/play

Various educational games, videos and craft ideas

www.britishcouncil.org/kids-songs-little-kids.htm

British Council “Learn English” – songs and stories

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/15.cfm?s=15&p=252,index

Good quality games from a range of websites such as BBC. Supports communication, language and literacy, problem solving, reasoning and numeracy as well as other areas of learning.

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/numbertime/index.shtml

Problem solving reasoning and numeracy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/barnabybear/

Visit the world with Barnaby Bear!