Why was I receiving a Forbidden/Error message when visiting your site?
We moved our site to be hosted by Onesmarthost.co.uk as our previous web host took the site offline because it was too popular! Since then the site was been running with almost no downtime. Occasionally server maintenance, software upgrades or a hardware problem means the site may be unavailable for a short time, this is very rare and can't be avoided.
Can I link to your site?
We are very happy for non commercial educational organisations to link to our site.
Please, wherever possible, could you link to the Key Stage/Subject page rather than individual resources.
This means that any new resources will also be available for your visitors to use!
Using I-frames and other similar methods is not allowed.
Can I download and save the resources?
No, the resources are only available via the web site, this way we can manage what's available, keep it up to date and generate a little advertising revenue.
As you can imagine 100's of hours have gone into producing them!
What are the most popular resources?
Each month we look through our visitor statistics and update our top ten.
To see what's hot view the Crickweb Top 10
What are Key Stages?
There are three education stages in the U.K. covering the following ages;
- Early Years/Foundation Stage for 4 to 5 year olds.
- Key Stage 1 for 6 to 7 year olds.(Year 1 & Year 2)
- Key Stage 2 for 8 to 11 year olds.(Year 3 to Year 6)
What did you use to make the resources?
Most are written with Adobe Flash (the most popular commercial format)
and therefore can be used on any brand of interactive white board.
Why did you move the resources from the Crick Primary School web site?
Due to heavy bandwidth demands, we moved the resources formerly hosted at
Crick Primary School, to this new site.
This will enable us to further extend our range of free educational resources.
We still support the school site and are actively involved with both the school and local community.
Who are V2V Training?
V2V Training Ltd is the business run by Dan, who created most of the resources on the web site.
Crickweb is a way for V2V to showcase some of their skills whilst giving something back to the education community.
Who are 3913?
3913.co.uk is my (David) web design and development business shop front.
The work I do on Crickweb is used as part of my portfolio to demonstrate my skills and expertise.
Why is there advertising?
As you can imagine the cost in time and money of running the web site and developing new resources is quite considerable. We decided that advertising was the only way to ensure sustainable, continuing development.
Problems with Internet Explorer 7/8
If you are having trouble getting the resources to open and are using Internet Explorer 7 please look at this page for help.
Do you have a Privacy Policy?
Yes we aim to comply with all legislation. Please go to the Privacy Policy page to check.
How do I know what's new?
We have a News page on which I post new resources and updates.
Also we have an RSS Feed which you can subscribe to.
How much time does the web site take up?
Week to week not too much! There are times that many hours are spent updating the resources etc. The original design/implementation took a couple of weeks, but overall the site and resources have taken 1000's of hours.
How many visitors use the site?
Currently around 600,000 per month. The record for one day is 39,000.
Did you have any help?
Not really, Dan writes most of the resources and I (David) develop and update the site. Some code comes from the Open Source Community (Many thanks!) :
- We use the most flexible CMS system, namely MODx
- Ajax contact form was put together by Brett Terpstra.
