Learn about new stuff

A simple but effective revision activity from the BGfL is here – The Life Cycle of Plants.

It covers the cycle from seed to dispersal. Good stuff!

Before there was Mii there was Me!

This great EYFS/ KS1 MeMaker site allows the pupils to create an online version of themselves. Great for finding out the names of some parts of their face and for ‘Modelling on Screen – Unit 1a ICT’ no less!

Try it by clicking here – Me Maker

We’ve come up with these postcards to send home with the pupils in Year 6.

Document one – Revision Postcard Front – Boy and Girl
postcard-revise-fronts.pdf

Document two – Revision Postcard Back
postcard-revise-reverse.pdf

Print out and use. Something similar was shown to be very effective at giving hints and tips for revision.

Kidsmart is an excellent site that promotes e-safety.

If you go to the resources page – click here to go - there’s some excellent download and print stuff to give out or posters to put up.

The Language of the Month website offers lots of FREE resources for promoting language awareness, including programs showing videos of children teaching their home languages, resources for putting up language displays, a booklet with 100+ ideas for celebrating community languages, and lots more.

Many languages are covered: Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Cantonese, Catalan, Dari, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Lingala, Lithuanian, Makaton, Mandarin, Mauritian Creole, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian Russian, Sinhala, Slovak, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Twi, Urdu and Yoruba.

Portuguese
Lithuanian
Polish

Resources – Choose your language from the list and download the excellent pack.

Azur and Asmar – The Princes’ Quest is a new film available at cinemas soon.

From Film Education comes this great website packed full of resources linked to the film, such as Stories from Other Cultures, Film Narrative and stuff linked to Art and Design.

Have a look!

I wonder how many of your pupils got a Wii for Christmas? Most children seem to know what a Mii is, here’s a site where you can make your own Wii version of yourself, Mii.

Click here to make a Wii you!

Our friends at Film Education have some lovely resources for the film Earth.

The film charts the progress of three animal families from different parts of the globe as they set out on their own, difficult journeys. Lovely stuff.

Take a look at the fab resources here: Earth Resources

Don’t forget that there’s some links to revision sites on the right on the sites links.

You’ve probably been using BBC Bitesize for a while now for revising for SATS but here’s another site, ICTeachers Revision, which has questions to improve pupils understanding. Past questions can also be tried – just click on any one and have a go!