The Foundation Stage in English education is from the age of three to five years old. The sites listed on this page are suggested as being of particular relevance to pupils in this age range, though many are also useful with older pupils. too.
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Sites relating to particular characters |
| Clifford Activities from Scholastics |
Fireman Sam |
Funky Farm - Big Book |
Fun with Spot |
| Magic Key |
Postman Pat |
The Hoobs |
Thomas the Tank |
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General Sites of Interest |
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This association is the leading national voluntary organisation for early years practitioners and parents
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This area of their school website gives information about the Foundation Stage and suggests a wide variety of other sites which may be useful.
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ICT resources in the foundation stage for communication, language and literacy/ mathematical development and other areas.
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This has lots of activities designed for use by pupils aged from 4 to 11 years old.
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This is another Derbyshire site! |
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This is another area of the BBC website, this time designed to be a fun way for 4-8 year olds to learn and play at home. |
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This site includes a range of copying, designing and building activities that will help develop hand/eye coordination, mouse skills, etc! |
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A collection of themed ICT activities and resources to support learning in the Foundation Stage.
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Northern Grid has been working with a group of teachers from the North of England to produce materials to support teaching and learning in the Early Years and the resources are now available through their site. |
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This English government programme which aims to achieve better outcomes for children, parents and communities. Look at their website to find out more details. |
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A site to help teach young children how to keep healthy and safe. |
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ICT Mouse skills development |
| Build a house |
Dress the bear |
Lego |
Literacy trust |
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Mathematical based activities |
| House dot to dot |
Lancashire grid Textease activities |
Matching numbers BBC |
Missing Numbers |
| Number time BBC |
Ordering numbers to 20 |
Time works - learn to tell the time here! |
Shape pictures |
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| The Music House |
Helps develop listening skills, recognition of percussion instruments and their associated sounds, as well as rhythm. |
| Early birds music |
According to this site, "Action songs, Speech Development Songs, Calming-Down songs and music. If you have bored children or restless children on your hands this summer this could be the site you've been looking for." |
| Pup Idol - the Rosiephone |
Try playing tunes on this site - great fun! |
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| Alphabet antics |
Help the monkey escape the snake by matching letter sounds with the correct symbol in this game. |
| Alphabet demonstrations on Cymru grid |
Goes through the alphabet using letter names but then gives a clear demonstration of how to form letters correctly and uses letter sounds. Very useful as a demonstration aid! |
| Reception Keywords practice |
Walk the plank if you can't spell guess the word - a choice of words are shown, reinforces vocabulary and look, cover, write/type, check for spelling. |
| Snaith primary Nursery Rhymes |
lots of Nursery Rhymes to read and consider their messages. Also includes accompaniment to sing them to and some colouring sheets to print off. |
| The Little Red Ship - one of Northumberland Grid's English Resources |
this is a talking story activity designed for Reception and Year One pupils |
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| Lewisham council's ICT Training for Teachers |
Shares ideas about how ICT can be used to enhance teaching and learning in the Foundation Stage. |
| Teaching Ideas |
Lots of ideas and activities are linked from this webpage - definitely worth exploring. |
| Under 5’s |
Another site with lots of resources, including planning and activities - useful for teachers! |
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Links to external sites are provided as they are considered appropriate for our pupils to use but these are outside our control. Where possible, permission to link to these sites has been sought and granted but if any site owner objects, such links will be removed.
Should any of the links not function or if you know of other appropriate links which it would be appropriate to include please contact Heath Primary School.
