Teacher's Web Resources

24 Hour Museum The UK's official guide to over 3,000 museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage attractions. 24 Hour Museum offers daily arts news, exhibition reviews, listings and in-depth online trails, as well as having a comprehensive, fully searchable, database of over 3,000 cultural institutions.
Apple Education Apple Hardware and Software in Education
The Basic Skills Agency The BSA is the national development organisation for literacy and numeracy. They produce teaching and learning materials, and develop and consult on programmes to improve the skills of children and adults.
BBC World Class Resources for schools across the world
BECTA Becta is a UK agency which supports all four UK education departments in their strategic ICT developments.
BETT Show BETT is the world's leading educational information & communications technologies (ICT) event
Blogger Guide to creating a Blog
British Educational
Suppliers Association
 
British Library Direct  
British Pathe British Pathe Film Archive covering news, sport, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970
Building Schools for the Future BSF is the biggest single government investment in improving school buildings for over 50 years. The aim is to rebuild or renew every secondary school in England over a 10-15 year period.
Chalkface Project The Chalkface Project publishes the best online courses, and photocopy-master lesson plans with worksheets, for Secondary Education in the UK.
Clipart School clipart for educational purposes.
Clipbank ClipBank is a digital library of the very best educational television clips, available for History, Geography and Science, D & T, French, German and Spanish for 11–16 year olds.
Creativity Website National Curriculum in Action uses pupils' work and case studies to exemplify the National Curriculum for England. NCaction is a searchable resource for school teachers and management that illustrates how the National Curriculum works in practice.
Curriculum Online Curriculum Online offers an online catalogue of digital learning resources, searchable by Key Stage, subject and topic. This portal - aimed at teachers and other school staff, and developed by the Department for Education and Skills - also offers independent evaluations and teacher reviews of products
DfES Department for Education and Skills
DfES Innovation Unit DfES Innovation Unit website
Discovery Education DiscoverySchool offers clipart, free teaching resources and personalized classroom materials
East Sussex Community Information Service(ESCIS) Provides information on local organisations, clubs and services across East Sussex and Brighton & Hove
East Sussex County Council  
East Sussex County Council Education  
English Teaching Resources Teachit's library of free English teaching resources
Equity Campaign Equal Opportunities in IT
for Young People
Evaluate Provides teachers with a clear picture of the use and benefits of digital resources in the classroom.
Free Digital Photos Thousands of royalty free images for websites, PowerPoint, newsletters, forums, blogs, schools and homework
Future Curriculum Developments The QCA site
Gifted and Talented Website National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth - expertise centre for gifted education providing education professionals and gifted students with advice, resources and learning opportunities
Google Earth Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.
Guardian- Education Supplement  
Guggenheim Museum  
History Resources Schoolhistory site - online history lessons, revision, games, worksheets, quizzes and links.
ICT in Education  
InclusiveTechnology Inclusive Technology provides the very best special educational needs software, switches and computer access devices, simple communication aids and assistive technology for learners with a physical disability, sensory impairment or learning difficulty.
Interactive Whiteboard
Presentation Materials
Espresso is an extensive library of high quality, video rich broadband teaching resources and student activities that motivates pupils and supports teachers
International School Award The International School Award is an accreditation scheme for curriculum-based international work in schools. It is open to all schools from all sectors across the UK.
Knowledge Community Knowledge Community allows our students and teachers to collaborate internationally with students and teachers from other schools/countries to Solve Problems, Construct Knowledge, Explore Idea and Build Project.
Learning Alive Learning Alive is an online education service for use by teachers and pupils, bringing together a wide range of resources for schools from RM and the Internet.
Learning English LearnEnglish is a free site that helps learners and teachers of English
Literacy Lessons Free literacy lessons planned according to the National Literacy Strategy for fiction, non-fiction, poetry and playscripts for KS2 and KS3
Literacy Matters Literacy training and resources for school and home.
Marc Prensky Website Marc Prensky is an internationally acclaimed speaker, writer, consultant, and designer in the critical areas of education and learning.
The Museum of Modern Art  
National Archive  
National College of School Leadership The National College for School Leadership provides learning and development opportunities and professional and practical support for school leaders at every stage in their career.
The National Gallery  
National Whiteboard Network  
New Zealand Maths Numeracy site
November Learning November Learning promotes the effective use of information and communication technologies that support and enhance learning for children and communities.
Nrich The Nrich Maths Project Cambridge, England. Mathematics resources for children, parents and teachers to enrich learning. Published on the 1st of each month. Problems, children's solutions, interactivities, games, articles, news...
NUT National Union of Teachers site
Oracle Think An Online Community for Learning
Pomidou Centre, Paris  
Promethean Global leader in interactive whiteboards and assessment technologies
Qualifications and Curriculum Authority  
Salvador Dali  
Schemes of Work This site is home to the QCA/DfES schemes of work.
School Zone An excellent and professional website offering educational and emotional support to teachers, parents, pupils and schools
SEN Teacher Resources Resources, freeware downloads, links and documents for those involved in the education of pupils with learning difficulties, autism and other special educational needs.
Shapes / Patterns A program to draw different shapes
Specialist Schools Schools Network
Standards site DfES Standards site, disseminating practical guidance and examples of good practice in schools in England
Staywise Educational resources from emergency services and other agencies from around the country for use by teachers
Stories from the Web A Reader Development Programme
Studywiz Studywiz is a Virtual Learning Environment for schools, designed to make eLearning intuitive and practical for teachers, students and parents.
Superhighway Safety Internet safety for schools
Tate Online  
Teach ICT It provides free materials, lesson plans and ideas to help with Key Stage three (KS3), GCSE,AS and A2.
Teacher Net Education site for teachers and school managers
The Teacher Resource Exchange A moderated database of resources and activities created by teachers.
Teachers' TV An innovative television channel and website which enables teachers and schools to learn by sharing practical ideas and information.
Teacher's Virtual School Access virtual departments for a range of online lessons.
Times Educational Supplement  
UNISON Union for those people who work in public services, the voluntary and private sectors
Wired for Health For Education professionals interested in young people's health

Travel

AA Traffic News  
AA Route Planner  
Google Map The best map site
RAC Traffic News  
Multimap a useful mapping site (UK and Europe)
Street Map another useful mapping site
Trainline for rail timetables and tickets

 

Weather

Local 5 day forecast

Finding Postcodes, Telephone Numbers

BT UK Directory Enquiries The online BT Phone Book
BT International Directory Enquiries Dialling codes for any country
Royal Mail Find a postcode
Yellow Pages Search Yell.com for business details

Search Engines

Altavista
Ask Jeeves
BBCi
Google
Yahoo

External Examination Boards

AQA  
EDEXCEL  
OCR  
WJEC  

Uckfield

Uckfield Community website  
Uckfield Today  
Uckfield RFC  

Encyclopedias/Dictionaries

AskOxford.com  
Britannica  
Grammar Lists  
Oxford English Dictionary  
Resource Discovery Network A useful resource finder
Roget's Thesaurus  
Web of Science  
Webster's Dictionary  
World Almanac  
Wordsmyth Dictionary