Child Internet Safety Summit

The Child Internet Safety Summit takes place on 11th July 2013 and will bring together senior officials from Government, Business and Academia to discuss, understand and demonstrate how we can protect children online in a world of rapid technological advancement.

26 April 2013

Kingsmill Lunch Spots

Kingsmill Lunch Spots are cross-curricular resources aimed at KS2 pupils, themed around investigating their local area and creating a persuasive promotional campaign. Grab your set of free resources now.
To enter the free competition and get multiple competition entry forms individuals will have to sign-up to be in with a chance of winning one of the prizes.

25 March 2013

Send My Friend to School

Global Campaign for Education have launched their 2013 Send My Friend to School campaign, which this year aims to highlight the global shortage of teachers – it is estimated that 1.7 million more teachers are needed worldwide to get universal primary education.

They have produced free curriculum-linked teaching resources to explain and motivate UK pupils to speak out for their peers who are denied their right to an education .

24 March 2013

Flash on iPads etc.

To play our Flash based activities on your iPad, we suggest the Puffin Browser App. The warnings in your app store about this product having an age requirement are simply due to the fact that the browser can visit ANY website on the Internet (just like any other browser.) It will be up to parents and teachers to monitor their children's use.

You can try Puffin for free (and be able to play Flash games) for two weeks. After that, the app will cost $2.99 (£2.00) for permanent Flash capabilities. Currently, you can extend your trial period by recommending friends!

For an educational volume discount, go to the Apple Education website for more details.

18 March 2013

Meet The Croods

The National Schools Partnership have developed a set of Meet The Croods interactive resources to coincide with film release this month. First 1,000 schools to register will receive 120 exclusive competition leaflets - amazing prizes available.

They also have a large set of activities covering many subject and topics across all key stages.

17 March 2013

Touchscreen Devices

As touchscreen devices such as the iPad & Android Tablets are becoming more popular as a method of browsing Crickweb, we are looking at ways of improving the usability of the site.
There are some difficult issues such as Apple's lack of Flash support (most of our activities are written in Flash as it's the only viable method) but as a first step we have a new touchscreen menu test page available for testing/feedback.
If you are using a touchscreen device please give it whirl and let us know if it makes navigation easier or if you prefer using existing menu.

10 February 2013

Inappropriate Ads

We'd like to apologise that some inappropriate adverts were being shown on our website. From a handful of reports it seems that a few iPad users were occasionally getting quite offensive ad material. After some investigation we think we've found the offending ad network and removed their ads completely.

19 January 2013

Resource "Initial Sounds" corrected

We have now corrected a small error in the Early Years resource Initial Sounds.
Thanks to Linda Jobe for pointing out we had used the letters CK instead of C for cat in level 1.

12 January 2013

BP Educational Service

The new BP Educational Service website is up and running. Along with many other great resources it has : InvestiGATE (for ages 9 – 12) helps prepare pupils for the transition to secondary school Science. Two lively teen presenters look at the ways scientists carry out investigations before planning, carrying out and evaluating their own experiment.

16 November 2012

Eight New Fun Games

Eight new fun games have been added to the site.
Pokemon Returns, Acorn Hunt, Ben 10 Dragon Blaze, Toon Rally, Magic Puzzle Ben 10, Sonic Ride 2, Super Sonic Ski 1 & Sonic ATV Trip can be found on the fun games page. Don't forget to use the Fun Games menu to explore all the games, old and new.

02 August 2012

Two More Fun Games

Two more fun games have been added to the site.
World Of Luigi & Mario Kart Top can be found on the fun games page. Don't forget to use the Fun Games menu to explore all the games, old and new.

30 July 2012

A Few More Fun Games

Six new fun games have been added to the site.
All the new games can be found on the fun games page. Don't forget to use the Fun Games menu to explore all the games, old and new.

24 May 2012

New KS2 Division resources

There is a new Numeracy KS2 Division page with 9 new drag and drop resources to help with dividing by the numbers 2 to 10.

26 April 2012

Extra Numeracy KS2 activities

There are three new resources on the Numeracy KS2 Calculation page to help with addition, subtraction & multiplication.
Also two new fun games have been added to the fun games page.

09 April 2012

Geography Photo Galleries

Two new photo galleries have been added in Geography Key Stage 2, they were kindly provided by GEOPHOTOS.
These images are available to teachers / schools at reduced rates. They will also be of interest to anyone writing geographical articles, textbooks, or electronic resources including website pages. Please contact Geophotos for details of prices.

06 February 2012

Everyschool

We recently launched a new sister site everyschool.co.uk, it provides a one stop shop for busy teachers, parents and children searching for free internet based resources.
There are now 800+ links which are sorted by subject => key stage => topic.
Where possible they try to follow the relevant strategy, framework or scheme of work.

18 January 2012

Sport Relief 2012

Sport Relief 2012 is kicking off in schools on Friday 23rd March and it’s going to be a day of fantastic, active fundraising that the whole school can enjoy!
Whether you hold a fancy-dress sports day, pit the staff against the students in a series of sporty activities or do something entirely different, together you can make Sport Relief 2012 the best ever and bundles of fun!

22 November 2011

Science resources from BP Educational Service

The YSI: Project Kit is part of the Young Science Investigators (YSI) suite of resources.
The Young Science Investigators are Beepy, Dev and Kate. Together they help pupils aged 7-11 learn about Science through fun, engaging, pupil-centred experiments and activities. All these curriculum resources are free, but registration is required.

Try out the resource now – the first 5000 teachers can order a free set of three posters and class set of "I'm a Young Science Investigator" stickers.

29 September 2011

New Fun Games

Two new fun games have been added to the site.
3D Neon Race & Mario Fun Ride can be found on the fun games page. Don't forget to use the Fun Games menu to explore all the games, old and new.

11 August 2011

New Quizzes Section

We have just created a new multiple choice quiz section under Extras.
For starters we have added two Romans in Britain quizzes but are hoping that you can help expand this by sending in your own question and answers.

08 July 2011