Links

Please note it has been a while since these links were last checked.  It's on the list though!  For now, apologies if any don't work.

Home Education

Diversity Otherwise
This website is intended to provide a gateway to the many and diverse multi-cultural UK home educating communities.

Education Otherwise
A national Home Education support charity. 

Freedom in Education
Gareth Lewis' site dedicated to alternative education, particualrly home education. 

Free Range Education
Website to accompany the book of the same name.  Appears to have not been updated since 2005. 

Home Ed Info
Excellent site giving a range of experiences of home education, ideas and resources. 

Home Education UK
Long established guide to home education in the UK including FAQs, resources, articles, legal information and publications.

Hes Fes
Home Educators Summer Festival.  An annual week of music, workshops and activities.

Radical Unschooling
Sandra Dodd's guide to unschooling. 

Home Education Advisory Service 

A national home education charity providing advice and practical support. 

Home Education Exams Site
Information on taking exams, from finding an exam centre to alternatives to "standard" qualifications.

 

English

Starfall Free American site.

English Resources From starting to read, use grammar etc. right up to ‘A' level.

 

Maths

Maths is Fun  Covers all aspects of maths.

Enjoy Maths Subscription site - can buy annual, monthly & quarterly subs. Follows curriculum and goes up to Key stage 4.

Cool Math 4 Kids Loads of maths games.

Primary Worksheets Selection of maths worksheets

Donna Young Maths

Super Kids

King's List of Online Maths Activities

 

 

Science, Geography, Environmental Studies and History

 EdHeads American science site with excellent interactive tools online from doing your own knee surgery to predicting the weather!

Science Year Brilliant site, mainly aimed at older children but have a new section for under 11's.

Show Me

School Discovery Education

The History Channel

English Heritage

BBC Environmental Intelligence Unit

The British Association for the Advancement of Science

Engineering Interact

GeoResources

HeadlineHistory

Woodland Trust

Eco-Friendly Kids

 

Art, Music and Languages

Crayola 

DLTK-Kids

KinderArt

Make-Stuff Also has gardening, cooking, formulas and remedies.

Origami Club  


Religion

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/

Inter Faith Calendar

 

Other

http://www.123greetings.com/ This site has a daily celebrations calendar which is good if you're stuck for ideas.

http://www.howstuffworks.com/

http://www.whyeaster.com/ Christian based.

http://www.educationalvisitsuk.com/index.htm

http://www.dke-encyc.com/

http://www.nutritionexplorations.com/educators/lessons-main.asp Nutrition

http://www.hixxysoft.co.uk Cheap software

Cracking Eggs  All about eggs!

http://www.face-online.org.uk/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 Farming and Countryside Education.

Skills Workshop

 

All subjects

http://www.channel4.com/learning/main/primary/keystage1.htm

http://www.firstschoolyears.com/

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

http://www.brainpop.com/

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home. html Need membership to print a lot of it.

http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/radstock/learnlinks.htm

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/index.htm

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/

http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/ Has a good links page .

http://www.wrigglyworm.com/vtcfaves/teacher.php?op=primary Has a good links page.

http://www.wrigglyworm.com/vtcfaves/secondary.php?op=list Has a good links page.

http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/

http://www.filmeducation.org Learn around the latest film, or use one of your old favourites!

http://www.edhelper.com Need membership.

http://donnayoung.org Very formal learning.

http://www.happychild.org.uk

http://fen.com/

http://www.usborne-quicklinks.com/uk/uk_homepage.asp

Parents Centre

http://www.eduplace.com

http://www.iknowthat.com/com?COOK =

http://www.learningpage.com

 

Early Years

http://www.nickjr.co.uk/activities/index.aspx

http://www.123child.com/

http://www.bigeyedowl.co.uk/index.htm

http://www.muddlepuddle.co.uk/

http://www.mape.org.uk/activities/index.htm

http://www.mrmen.com

http://www.kidsdomain.com/resources Good site, but loads of pop up ads.

http://www.easyfunschool.com/

Preschool Education

Everything Preschool

 

Free Printables

http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/Printables/index.shtml

http://www.abcteach.com/

School House Tech

http://www.johnandgwyn.co.uk/home.html Lots of maths and computer based worksheets.

http://www.schoolexpress.com/

Activity Village