| Literacy/English | Top |
| CAL KS1 template | A template suitable for use in CAL lessons, providing opportunities for Make and Break spelling activities, Look Cover Write Check high frequency words and Sentence level activities | Download CAL |
| Writing frames 1 | Collection of writing frames suitable for use on whiteboards. These are mainly suitable for non-fiction researching. | Download Frames |
| Spelling Challenge | Activity using coloured backgrounds to hide/reveal phonic patterns or parts of words to teach spelling patterns.
This activity can easily be adapted to teach any phonic/spelling pattern. | Download file |
| tion or sion??? | Word extensions... Which ones change to ..tion or ..sion? | Download file |
| Leaflets | SATS KS2 revision. What makes a good leaflet - writing for different purposes | Download file |
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| Numeracy/Maths | Top |
| Sets and Venn | Backgrounds for making Venn diagram or setting activities | Download File |
| Pythagoras | Activity aimed at teaching Pythagoras Theorem | Download Pythagoras |
| Maths - various | Collection of Maths activites - Sorting numbers using Venn diagram, Permiter, area and Square numbers | Download Maths |
| Primary Maths Collection | Collection of Primary Maths resources
100 square activities
Fraction resources (several of these are to provide a source for making your own lessons)
Arrow Cards (Due to technical difficulties with some graphic cards these may not work on some PCs. They will operate as normal on Win XP, on most Win98 PCs the arrow cards become white rectangles but are still usable, however on some PCs the arrow cards become transparent and therefore unusable) | Download 100 square activities
Download Fractions
Download Arrow Cards |
| Science | Top |
| Science Investigation Planner | A simple science investigation planning sheet, with results and graph pages. | Download Science |
| Planets | Activity studying planets in the solar system | Download Planets
Download Zip |
| Plants | Introduction to investigating the effect of light on plant growth. Reinforces common processes for living things, what plants need to grow and looks at what the children might expect to happen to plants in different light conditions. | Download Plants |
| Skeleton | Why do we need a skeleton? Drag labels onto a skeleton, with printable worksheet page. | Download Skeleton
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| Information Technology | Top |
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| History | Top |
| Stuarts - The Plague | Plague activity, looking at living conditions, cures and Stuart doctors | Download Plague |
| Stuarts - The Great Fire of London | Great Fire of London activities, with information, wordsearch and worksheets | Download Fire |
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| Geography | Top |
| Land use | Local area land use study. Use an aerial photograph to look at how land is used.
Example using Howardian Centre
Cardiff Bay
Wick (Vale of Glamorgan)
St Hilary (Vale of Glamorgan)
Also take a look at a similar land use activity in the General Activities section |
Download LandUse
Download Cardiff Bay
Download Wick
Download St Hilary |
| Local and Contrasting Area | Use streetmaps and aerial photographs to compare 2 areas (Cardiff Bay, Wick and St Hilary are provided, but with instructions to use different areas). Also can be used for comparing street maps to aerial photographs. | Download Local areas |
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| DT | Top |
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| Art | Top |
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| Music | Top |
| Music paper Backgrounds | Selection of music staff backgrounds | Download Music |
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| Welsh | Top |
| Food | Welsh vocabulary for food | Download Food |
| Y Ty | Welsh vocabulary for a house - labelling parts of a house | Download Y Ty |
| Colours | Welsh vocabulary for colours | Download Colours |
| Who ??? | Famous Welsh People - Gues the person by completing the descriptions.
Cerys Matthews (Catatonia)
Others can be added | Download Pwy Sy Yma |
| Anifeiliad Anwes | Welsh pets KS1 activity | Download Anifeiliaid Anwes |
| Ar Lan y Mor | Welsh by the seaside | Download Ar Lan y Mor |
| Dillad | 3 clothes activities for KS1 | Download Dillad
Download Dillad2
Download Dillad_tywydd |
| Y Tywydd | The weather in Wales - and no it's not all about rain! | Download Y Tywydd |
| Ble wyt tin Gallu | KS2 Welsh | Download Ble wyt tin gallu |
| Croeso i Gaerdydd | Welcome to Cardiff KS2 Welsh | Download Croeso i Gaerdydd |
| RE | Top |
| Places of Worship | Series of activities looking at Mosques, Syangogues and Churches | Download file
Download Zip |
| SIKHISM | Notebook file giving information about Sikhism | Download file |
| Backgrounds | Top |
| This section contains notebook files which can be used as page backgrounds. Eg. Handwriting lines, graph papers etc. Several of these are automatically installed with the newer versions of Smart Notebook (ie. those which give access to Templates). They may be used as ordinary Notebook files, or can be saved as Templates for later use. |
| Grid backgrounds | Selection of grids and squared papers as Notebook backgrounds | Download Grids |
| Handwriting paper background | Handwriting paper background | Download Handwriting |
| Lined paper Backgrounds | Selection of lined paper backgrounds | Download Lines |
| Graph Backgrounds | Selection of graph paper backgrounds suitable for Maths, Science and other graphing activities | Download Graphs |
| Clocks background | Clocks backgrounds template - already part of later versions of notebook software | Clocks download |
| Dotty Backgrounds | Selection of dotty paper backgrounds for Notebook activities | Download Dotty papers |
| Music paper Backgrounds | Selection of music staff backgrounds | Download Music |
| Examples | Top |
| This section contains notebook files which are intended simply to demonstrate some ideas of what can be done using the SmartBoard and to provide a short explanation into how to do it. The activities are not intended to be teaching activities as they stand and only show one or two examples of how different techniques can be used. Other ideas can be found by looking at the teaching activities above. |
| Broken sentence | This example shows how a text only activity can be created for the children to drag words into place. See the activity for further details and ideas. | Download file |
| Spelling Patterns | An example activity using coloured backgrounds to hide/reveal phonic patterns or parts of words to teach spelling patterns. | Download file |
| Cloze | An example activity using coloured pens to hide text, labels or numbers which can then be revealed using the rubber tool. | Download file |
| Other | Top |
| 800x600 Outline | A basic 800x600 outline - useful if resources are being prepared on a PC with higher resolution than the projector uses (eg. large screen monitors or newer laptops) | Download outline |
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