Guidance and Support for ICT Coordinators from the Nottinghamshire School Improvement Service

Web site links
 

http://www.ajkids.com
 
Ask Jeeves for kids
Child friendly search engine (US)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/laac/

 
Little animals activity centre
A wonderful site aimed at 5-7 year olds with some of the best interactive stories available
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/schools/digger/


 
Digger and the gang
Another wonderful educational but fun site with activities to support literacy work.
Aimed at three age groups 5-7 years, 7-9 years and 9-11 years.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/webguide
 
BBC Webguide
An exhaustive list of web sites, follow the 'schools' link
http://www.childrenstory.com/


 
Childrenstory
A collection of audio stories, useful for an ICT based listening centre, also includes links to fantasy stories written by the web master
http://crayon.net
 
Crayon
Create your own newspaper site
http://www.education.bl.uk

 
British Library
The home site of the British Library with some child friendly resources
http://www.eric-carle.com
 
Eric Carle
The home site of Eric Carle
http://www.ers.cqm.co.uk/rlinks/linaut.htm

 
Author links page
An impressive collection of links to the home sites of a wide range of authors
http://www.footee.net/
 
Footee.net
Wonderfully entertaining free classroom resources
http://www.gilliancross.co.uk/


 

Gillian Cross
The site of the author of the Demon Headmaster series, including a wonderful set of text message symbols.
www.google.co.uk
 
Google
A magnificent search engine, try the image search!

http://www.ipl.org/youth/StoryHour

 

The Internet Public Library
A range of simple stories that are aimed at Foundation and KS1 children, some are simply illustrated, others are animated with audio

http://kotn.ntu.ac.uk


 
Kids on the Net
A super site, Kids on the Net features writing by children at home and at school all over the world and has wonderful pages to motivate the children to write. Make sure that you take a look at the Kid's Castle
http://www.1001.com/postcards/ On-line e-cards
This site allows children to create and send their own e-cards
http://www.percyspark.co.uk


 
Percy the Park keeper
Although basically a glorified advert for the magazine to buy in the shops, this does include some nice activities

http://www.poetryzone.ndirect.co.uk
 

The Poetry Zone
a fun and interactive site run by Roger Stephens, a local poet

http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/dickkingsmith/index.html Dick King Smith
The home page of the author of The Hodgeheg
http://www.roalddahl.com
 
Roald Dahl
A very flashy site for children to access
http://www.seussville.com/seussville/
 
Dr. Seuss
Some super activities
http://www.storiesfromtheweb.org/
 
Stories from the Web
Online fiction
http://www.titch.net
 
Titch online
Pat Hutchins' home site