Our Content and Curriculum Team have been busy recently producing new, FRESH content for all our fab teachers! With a new week having just started at school, we thought we’d treat you and let you know what we’ve added.
We’ve added new pieces of tablet-friendly content spanning Activities, Learn Screens and Videos in our English and Maths modules for both Key Stage 1 and 2.
What are we waiting for? Let’s check out the new, exciting content…
UPGRADED! Nursery Rhymes
Many of our nursery rhymes have been updated with new graphics and they’re now tablet-friendly. Let’s take a look at what’s been upgraded so that you can get singing along with your young ones!
You can find these nursery rhymes in the years listed below on EducationCity in the corresponding Videos section.
English
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ABC Sing-along – A modern alphabet sing-along.
- England: F2
- Scotland: Early **
- N. Ireland: P1
- Wales: Reception
Days of the Week – Sing along with the song.
- England: F2
- Scotland: Early **
- N. Ireland: P1
- Wales: Reception
Going to Sea – Sing along with the song and join in with the repeated refrains.
- England: F1
- Scotland: Early *
- N. Ireland: Pre-School
- Wales: Nursery
Humpty Dumpty – Sing along to the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme.
- England: F1
- Scotland: Early *
- N. Ireland: Pre-School
- Wales: Nursery
Klara’s Kettle – Listen to and sing along to the nursery rhyme.
- England: F1
- Scotland: Early *
- N. Ireland: Pre-School
- Wales: Nursery
Row Your Boat – Sing along with the traditional nursery rhyme.
- England: F1
- Scotland: Early *
- N. Ireland: Pre-School
- Wales: Nursery
Twinkle Twinkle – Sing along with a traditional nursery rhyme about a star.
- England: F1
- Scotland: Early *
- N. Ireland: Pre-School
- Wales: Nursery
Maths
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Buckle My Shoe (to 10) – Sing-along, counting up to ten, nursery rhyme.
- England: F1
- Scotland: Early *
- N. Ireland: Pre-School
- Wales: Nursery
Buckle My Shoe (to 20) – Sing-along, counting up to twenty, nursery rhyme.
- England: F2
- Scotland: Early **
- N. Ireland: P1
- Wales: Reception
Busy Bees – Students listen to a counting song and practise counting to ten.
- England: F1
- Scotland: Early *
- N. Ireland: Pre-School
- Wales: Nursery
Five Currant Buns – Sing-along counting down from five in this nursery rhyme song.
- England: F1
- Scotland: Early *
- N. Ireland: Pre-School
- Wales: Nursery
Five in a Bed – Sing along, counting down from five, nursery rhyme.
- England: F1
- Scotland: Early *
- N. Ireland: Pre-School
- Wales: Nursery
Five Little Frogs – Use a song to subtract one from a set.
- England: F1
- Scotland: Early *
- N. Ireland: Pre-School
- Wales: Nursery
Ten Brown Owls – Sing along to the nursery rhyme, and count from 10 down to 0.
- England: F1
- Scotland: Early *
- N. Ireland: Pre-School
- Wales: Nursery
NEW! Activities, Learn Screens & Videos
We’ve added loads more new and upgraded content to the rest of EducationCity too! You can see the full list in the Teacher Area – go and check it out!
For now though, we’ve asked our Content and Curriculum Team to pick out their top new Activities – here’s what they recommend:
Activities
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Case Invaders – To identify proper nouns, including place names, days of the week, months of the year and children’s names.
- England: Year 1
- Scotland: Early ***
- N. Ireland: P3
- Wales: Year 1
Dinosaurs of Note – Match notes to amounts. Select a number of the same note. Looking at £5 note, £10 note, £20 note and £50 note.
- England: Year 1
- Scotland: First *
- N. Ireland: P2
- Wales: Year 2
The Gingerbread Man – Help Stig to join in with the well-known tale ‘The Gingerbread Man’ by identifying the repeated and predictable phrases. Children can listen to the story in full first or join in straight away.
- England: Year 1
- Scotland: Early ***
- N. Ireland: P2
- Wales: Year 1
What Comes Next? – Reason which shapes will continue a shape pattern. Includes shape rotation.
- England: Year 2
- Scotland: First *
- N. Ireland: P3
- Wales: Year 2
Billy and Ed’s Adventure – Students listen to a story being read to them and select leading questions as discussion points, to talk about in small groups.
- England: Year 1
- Scotland: Early ***
- N. Ireland: P2
- Wales: Year 1
Roots to Riches – To understand that the prefix un- can be added to a word to make a new word.
- England: Year 1
- Scotland: Early ***
- N. Ireland: P3
- Wales: Year 2
Putt These in Order – Recognise and order letters of the alphabet using capital letters.
- England: Year 1
- Scotland: Early **
- N. Ireland: P1
- Wales: Year 1
Half-Baked – Find half of a quantity.
- England: Year 1
- Scotland: Early **
- N. Ireland: P3
- Wales: Year 1
Massive Measures – Converting between standard units of mass and capacity.
- England: Year 5
- Scotland: Second *
- N. Ireland: P6
- Wales: Year 5
Croaking Contractions – Listen to the words. Select the correct contracted form. Drag and drop the correct letters and punctuation to spell the contracted form.
- England: Year 2
- Scotland: First *
- N. Ireland: P3
- Wales: Year 3
Show Me the Money – Combine different coins to make the same amounts of money.
- England: Year 2
- Scotland: Early ***
- N. Ireland: P3
- Wales: Year 2
We hope you enjoy taking a look at them and using them in class too!