Kids' Zone
Links
Let's celebrate Roald Dahl Day!!
Lots of super activities for the home and classroom. Have a go - they're fun to do!!
The Water Family : fun ways to learn about water conservation!!
Challenge your family and friends to make decisions about their water use. Explore each scene, find information, view animations, make decisions, accept a challenge and score points!! Use the incredible X-ray machine!!
KS2 SAT's Revisewise Materials
Here it is - fantastic support as we prepare for our National Tests at Key Stage 2. The materials on this site support the Revisewise Study Books that are used in lesson time and for homework. Let's get revising !!
BBC 'Newsround' ~ a great source of world news viewed through a child's eyes
This is a great source of information to support those homework topics or simply to keep yourself up-to-date with what's going on out there !!
Let's look at beautiful sea turtles !
An amazing website where you can actually 'track' living sea turtles, that are tagged, around the world! You can even adopt a tagged sea turtle for a very reasonable fee (perhaps as a school?) and follow it each day on its' adventures. Why not contact Peter Brook the Bear and tell him if you are interested in adopting a sea turtle !
Do you care for our planet ?
Do you have an interest in nature, the rainforests, endangered species, climate change? This is the site for you - it is packed with useful information - go on, have a click !!
Let's paint the Weather !!
We always seem to talk about the weather in Britain so let's paint it instead !! A fantastic site with great paintings to look at ! (Don't forget to take an umbrella, you never know when ...!)
All the history topics you'll ever need for homework!
Super site for both children and teachers alike! Why not browse the information on your current history topic and get extra housepoints for a super piece of homework!
Personal & Social Development (PSD)
A fun site with a healthy flavour! Meet Tony and Rosie, our cartoon friends, as they learn about healthy eating and the benefits of fitness, food and tasty nutrients!
The Tudors : look at a 16th Century warship
Supporting our Year 5 History unit on 'The Tudors', this fascinating site looks at the 'Mary Rose' which was the pride of Henry VIII's fleet being built between 1509-1511, sunk by the French in 1545 before being raised from the seabed in 1982!
London's world famous Natural History Museum
What a great site to explore. Learn about our own planet in the Solar System, about pre-historic life on Earth and much, much more! Go on, treat yourself!
Oxford Reading Tree site for young children
This simple site lets our children meet all our favourite characters, to colour them in on screen or enjoy joining a dot-to-dot picture of an adventure.
Games & Quizzes about terrifying dinosaurs! Arrghhh!!!
Thank goodness dinosaurs don't roam Solihull Lodge today! This site is terrific with facts, fun and loads of fear!! Click if you dare!
The mini-beasts are here!!
A wonderful site,especially for our younger children at Peterbrook. With great animation and graphics, you can play mini-beast games, write creepy-crawly poems and stories and learn lots about the tiny creatures that live around our feet!!
Welcome to 'History for Kids'
A really great history site for kids which can also be useful for Peterbrook teachers as it is packed with interesting ideas.
History as you've never seen it before!
Your teachers love history and we hope that you do too! This is a fantastic site for kids with lots of things to do. Walk through time and explore what happened with lots of new friends!
Let's have fun with the 'Wet Water Wizard'!!
Severn Trent Water have produced this excellent website which supports our science and geography investigations on water. It also supports the work undertaken by Year 5 on their field study day trip to Severn Trent's 'Barston Water Treatment Plant'. Have lots of fun with the Wizard!!
A great website showing weather and climate change
Our very own BBC has its own superb weather website. It's the site that we use to transfer our own local weather statistics to our international schools as we observe our contrasting climates!
NASA, Florida, USA
An out-of-this-world kind of site! It's packed with all sorts of space information and things to do. This site is ~ 'One small step for mankind but one giant leap for Peterbrook'!!
National Space Centre, Leicester
What a brilliant site with fantastic pictures and things to do ~ it's also the destination of the Year 5 science day trip each year as it supports our unit on Earth and our Solar System!! Wow!
A cool site showing us a healthy way to live
Fantastic website for looking at cool meals for cool kids! It supports several science units and has lots of fun things to do. Get clicking !
