• The BBC's schools website covers all curriculum subjects at both primary and secondary level whilst their learning website provides both internal and external education links.
• Channel 4 provide wide coverage of education issues with their colourful, interactive, learning website.
• The USA's Best College Rankings website has collated 101 Killer Open Courseware Projects from Around the World: Ivy League and Beyond - a collection of open courseware covering topics as diverse as mathematics, business skills, theology, and nanoscience!
Aimed primarily at adults, the information would also support the learning of older children!
• Teacher's net has a vast collection of lesson plans covering all ages and topics.
• For a an eclectic collection of links covering a broad curriculum try out Pratt's Educational Resources.
• The Teaching Ideas website is packed with lots and lots of education resources covering the whole primary curriculum.
• The Webquests website is the National Museums online learning project and offers online journeys through a range of art and history topics and associated subjects.
• The Royal National Lifeboat Institution's Shorething website provides free downloadable resources covering PSCHE, Science, History, English and other curriculum others.
• The British Film Institute offers educational resources (mostly free) linking with a range of curriculum topics,
• Here its is, the National Curriculum website.
• For free software and other resources related to the fields of science, mathematics, computing, technology and electronics, you can't do much better than the crocodile-clips website.
• As well as reveiews of schools, schoolsnet website has lessons plans and GCSE revision resources.

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• Poem Hunter will help with writing poetry, identifying poems and learning about the lives of poets.
• Alphabetically arranged lists of English Phonetic Words exclude irregular spellings and so make a great resource for early reading development.
• Free phonics worksheets are available here.
• Explore literary treasures, everyday ephemera, and the complex history of the English language, with unique texts from the British Library.
• Create your own free newspaper!
• The Literacy Trust has free resources for both parents and professionals, including booklists, editable posters, tips to encourage reading and a good links page covering a broad range of literacy issues.
• Word Detective takes a humorous look at words and language.

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• Download number flashcards
• Print out some oversized playing cards for maths activities
• Number activities and maths activities.
• Free maths worksheets are available here.
• Fancy downloading some mathematics posters?
• Learn about money with the Bank of England's free education resources.
• Free math worksheets for elementary school and home use. This includes generators for math drills, flashcards, time, money, and more!
• For maths reference tables and a good selection of maths links, try math2.org (this website is also available in Spanish).
• Here are some colourful, fun, free primary maths resources, courtesy of Count On.
• The Border Maths website has a wide range of teaching tools covering the teaching of place value, multiplication, shape, time, measure and more!
• Want to create some maths worksheets? Here you go!

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• Sense-lang.org provides free touch typing tuition
• Learn how to create a website with the first and original HTML help for children.
• Try out some free Microsoft tutorials.
• Master internet basics.
• Here's an article suggesting ways to help children evaluate internet based information and use search engines effectively.
• The 'Scottish Borders Council' website lists lots of ICT 'How to's', tips and advice in free dowloads.

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