NEL Learning Activities Rupert Collins in Partnership with Schools


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Foundation Stage, Early Years
  1. Characters - Art & design, English
    Choose the type of clothes, hair and skin colour that you want your character to have. Now type on the notepad a sentence about your character.
  2. Make a Monster - Art & design
    A creative activity allowing children to make their own monsters.
  3. Coconut Words - English
    This is a short, fun activity where pupils have to read a short sentence and find the missing word. The activity is based on a 'coconut shy'.
  4. Magic Pencil - English
    This is a letter recognition and matching activity.
  5. Today is... - English, Geography, Science
    This activity lets you make a weather record for each day of the week.
  6. Out & About - Com. languages, English, Mathematics
    Use this activity to find out about the numbers and words all around us. This activity is available in three languages Urdu, Bengali and English.
  7. Holding Hands - English, PSHE
    This Road Safety activity is designed to positively reinforce the concept that children need to hold onto something safe when they go out onto the pavement or road and they should not let go until they are in a safe place.
  8. Safe Places - English, PSHE
    Explore the neighbourhood and find out where the safe places are in your area.
  9. Body Parts - English, Science
    This is a simple interactive activity which helps pupils with English as a second language develop their reading and speaking skills.
  10. Tidy the Classroom - ICT, PSHE, Science
    This game will help you with your 'mouse' skills. A practice area helps you with clicking and dragging objects. The main activity is a messy classroom.
  11. Counting to Ten - Mathematics
    This game will help you learn to count to 10. Drag and drop the cards onto the number line. There are three rounds, each one getting harder!
  12. Guess My Number 1 to 10 - Mathematics
    This is a guessing game where you have to find the number that the computer is thinking of! Type in a number and then click the 'guess' button.
  13. Number Recognition to 10 - Mathematics
    This game will help you learn the words and numbers from 1 to 10. As each word appears you have to match it to the number.
  14. Passengers on the Bus - Mathematics
    This game helps you count to 10. When the bus arrives, drag and drop the people onto the bus.
  15. Matching Numbers to 20 - Mathematics
    This game will help you learn to count to 20. Drag and drop the number cards onto the grid. There are three rounds, each one harder than the last.
  16. Maths Magic - Mathematics
    Can you find the matching pair? This activity gives children the opportunity to sort and match sets of common objects. Children can work in groups or as individuals.
  17. Sing-a-Plan - PSHE
    A musical planning activity. This activity gives children the opportunity to make and express choices, plans, and decisions. It is a small group activity that can be led by an adult or a child.
  18. Teddy's Day Out - PSHE, RE
    Join Teddy as he finds out about different faiths.
  19. Animal Homes - Science
    This is a fun activity to help develop pupils' understanding of habitats. Simple feedback is provided to encourage the pupil to talk about their choices.
  20. Young Animals - Science
    This activity can be used to explore life processes and living things. Match the animals to their young.
Key Stage 1
  1. Characters - Art & design, English
    Choose the type of clothes, hair and skin colour that you want your character to have. Now type on the notepad a sentence about your character.
  2. Finger Spelling - Citizenship, PSHE
    Learn how to use a version of sign language called British two-handed finger spelling alphabet. Enter your name and see what it looks like in Finger Spelling.
  3. Coconut Words - English
    This is a short, fun activity where pupils have to read a short sentence and find the missing word. The activity is based on a 'coconut shy'.
  4. Make a Monster - English
    Think of a story which has a monster or a troll as one of the characters. Turn the sound on! Now make your own monster or troll.
  5. Noughts and Spellings - English
    This game is based on 'noughts and crosses'. The difference is that to play the game you have to answer 'spelling' questions.
  6. Story Making - English
    Create your own magic castle and fill it with wizards and goblins! Construct a stage filled with Shakespearean characters! Start a mystery story in a scary house!
  7. Story Telling Templates - English
    Have you ever read the story of Cinderella? How about the Firebird or Rumpelstiltskin? What about some of the other traditional tales?
  8. The Tooth Fairy - English
    This is a book all about Jo who loses her tooth while playing football. Once you have read the story see if you can answer the questions.
  9. Today is... - English, Geography, Science
    This activity lets you make a weather record for each day of the week.
  10. Counter Attack - English, Mathematics
    This activity is based on the popular children's game, 'Connect 4' where players have to create a line of four counters (vertical, horizontal or diagonal) on a grid by dropping coloured counters through a frame.
  11. Mental Gym - English, Mathematics
    This activity really gives your mental maths and spelling skills a workout!
  12. Out & About - Com. languages, English, Mathematics
    Use this activity to find out about the numbers and words all around us. This activity is available in three languages Urdu, Bengali and English.
  13. Holding Hands - English, PSHE
    This Road Safety activity is designed to positively reinforce the concept that children need to hold onto something safe when they go out onto the pavement or road and they should not let go until they are in a safe place.
  14. Safe Places - English, PSHE
    Explore the neighbourhood and find out where the safe places are in your area.
  15. Body Parts - English, Science
    This is a simple interactive activity which helps pupils with English as a second language develop their reading and speaking skills.
  16. Tidy the Classroom - ICT, PSHE, Science
    This game will help you with your 'mouse' skills. A practice area helps you with clicking and dragging objects. The main activity is a messy classroom
  17. Counting to Ten - Mathematics
    This game will help you learn to count to 10. Drag and drop the cards onto the number line. There are three rounds, each one getting harder!
  18. Counting Using Money - Mathematics
    This game uses money to help you learn to count up to 10p. Count up the number of 1p coins and then click on the box that shows that amount.
  19. Number Recognition to 10 - Mathematics
    This game will help you learn the words and numbers from 1 to 10. As each word appears you have to match it to the number.
  20. Passengers on the Bus - Mathematics
    This game helps you count to 10. When the bus arrives, drag and drop the people onto the bus.
  21. Guess My Number 1 to 10 - Mathematics
    This is a guessing game where you have to find the number that the computer is thinking of! Type in a number and then click the 'guess' button.
  22. Matching Numbers to 20 - Mathematics
    This game will help you learn to count to 20. Drag and drop the number cards onto the grid. There are three rounds, each one harder than the last.
  23. Guess My Number 1 to 100 - Mathematics
    This is a guessing game where you have to find the number that the computer is thinking of! Type in a number and then click the 'guess' button.
  24. One Less - Mathematics
    This game will help you learn to count to 10 and back to 1. As each number appears you have to click on the number card that is one less.
  25. One More - Mathematics
    This game will help you learn to count to 10. As each number card appears you have to click on the card that is one more than that number.
  26. Shapes - Mathematics
    Shapes is an activity which supports the development and understanding of 2D and 3D shapes.
  27. Time on the hour - Mathematics
    This game will help you learn to tell the time. A question appears asking you the time. Click on the clock face that matches the right time.
  28. Two Less Than - Mathematics
    This game will help you learn to subtract and count in twos.
  29. Two More Than - Mathematics
    This game will help you learn to add and count in twos.
  30. Virtual Dice - Mathematics
    This resource contains a set of four 'virtual' dice with six, eight, ten and twelve sides. In addition, each die can be customised to give maximum flexibility.
  31. Virtual Keyboard - Music
    This activity allows you to explore a variety of sounds using a virtual keyboard. Click on the drop-down list of sounds to select your instrument and then click on the keyboard to create your composition.
  32. Teddy's Day Out - PSHE, RE
    Join Teddy as he finds out about different faiths.
  33. Hams Hall Pond (Primary) - Science
    This activity is based on a real pond in Lea Marston in Warwickshire. You can play a life cycles game, learn about food chains, and read about pond creatures.
  34. Young Animals - Science
    This activity can be used to explore life processes and living things. Match the animals to their young.
Key Stage 2
  1. Characters - Art & design, English
    Choose the type of clothes, hair and skin colour that you want your character to have. Now type on the notepad a sentence about your character.
  2. Finger Spelling - Citizenship, PSHE
    Learn how to use a version of sign language called British two-handed finger spelling alphabet. Enter your name and see what it looks like in Finger Spelling.
  3. Sarehole Mill - D&T, History
    This activity helps you understand the history and workings of Sarehole Mill in Hall Green, Birmingham. The activity is full of animations showing you how the mill wheel, gears and grinding process works.
  4. Story Making - English
    Create your own magic castle and fill it with wizards and goblins! Construct a stage filled with Shakespearean characters! Start a mystery story in a scary house!
  5. Story Telling Templates - English
    Have you ever read the story of Cinderella? How about the Firebird or Rumpelstiltskin? What about some of the other traditional tales?
  6. My Perfect Place - English
    Read the 'Perfect Place' story and then try one of the exercises.
  7. J R R Tolkien - English, Geography, History
    This is a web-based research project investigating J R R Tolkien and his links to Birmingham.
  8. Bangladesh Big Book - English, Geography
    The book can be used to support both the National Literacy Strategy and the Geography Programmes of Study (Contrasting Locality).
  9. Counter Attack - English, Mathematics
    This activity is based on the popular children's game, 'Connect 4' where players have to create a line of four counters (vertical, horizontal or diagonal) on a grid by dropping coloured counters through a frame.
  10. Mental Gym - English, Mathematics
    This activity really gives your mental maths and spelling skills a workout!
  11. Rivers and Bridges - Geography
    Learn about your local area's rivers and bridges. Find out how the water cycle works.
  12. Boudicca's Revolt - History
    Travel back in time to Ancient Britain. Find out about the Romans and their battle with Queen Boudicca. The stories are told by four different people - the facts are the same but the stories are not. Can you help unravel the truth about history?
  13. Brief Encounter with Aston Hall - History
    This activity takes you on an interactive tour around Aston Hall. After you have learned all about its history there is also a quiz to test your knowledge.
  14. The Egyptians - History
    Travel back in time to Ancient Egypt and the land of the Pharaohs.
  15. The Egyptians Quiz - History
    This interactive quiz is built around the Ancient Egyptians
  16. Senet - an ancient Egyptian board game - History
    This is a board game called Senet that used to be played by the Ancient Egyptians.
  17. Egyptian Gods and Goddesses Worksheet - History A worksheet aimed at Key Stage 2 pupils to promote and develop research skills. They must choose an Egyptian god and goddess then find out some key facts. (Word Document)
  18. Lesson Plan - The Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt - History
    A lesson plan for the Key Stage 2 History teacher. It introduces the gods and goddesses of Ancient Egypt.
  19. The Tudors - History
    A fascinating collection of sources about the Tudors
  20. Guess My Number 1 to 10 - Mathematics
    This is a guessing game where you have to find the number that the computer is thinking of! Type in a number and then click the 'guess' button.
  21. Matching Numbers to 20 - Mathematics
    This game will help you learn to count to 20. Drag and drop the number cards onto the grid. There are three rounds, each one harder than the last.
  22. Guess My Number 1 to 100 - Mathematics
    This is a guessing game where you have to find the number that the computer is thinking of! Type in a number and then click the 'guess' button.
  23. Interactive Multiplier - Mathematics
    Test your mental multiplication skills with the random question generator.
  24. Money Boxes - Mathematics
    To play the game you have to answer the multiplication questions as quickly as you can and save as much money as you can.
  25. One Less - Mathematics
    This game will help you learn to count to 10 and back to 1. As each number appears you have to click on the number card that is one less.
  26. One More - Mathematics
    This game will help you learn to count to 10. As each number card appears you have to click on the card that is one more than that number.
  27. Two Less Than - Mathematics
    This game will help you learn to subtract and count in twos.
  28. Two More Than - Mathematics
    This game will help you learn to add and count in twos.
  29. Virtual Dice - Mathematics
    This resource contains a set of four 'virtual' dice with six, eight, ten and twelve sides. In addition, each die can be customised to give maximum flexibility.
  30. Place Value (Primary) - Mathematics
    Start by selecting the type of number you want to be tested on. Do you want it to be integers (whole numbers) or numbers with decimal places?
  31. Shapes - Mathematics
    Shapes is an activity which supports the development and understanding of 2D and 3D shapes.
  32. Time on the hour - Mathematics
    This game will help you learn to tell the time. A question appears asking you the time. Click on the clock face that matches the right time.
  33. Telling the time - on the half hour - Mathematics
    This game will help you learn to tell the time on the half hour. A question appears asking you the time. Click on the clock face that matches the right time.
  34. Telling the time - quarter past the hour - Mathematics
    This game will help you learn to tell the time on the quarter past the hour. A question appears asking you the time. Click on the clock face that matches the right time.
  35. Telling the time - quarter to the hour - Mathematics
    This game will help you learn to tell the time on the quarter to the hour. A question appears asking you the time. Click on the clock face that matches the right time.
  36. Fractions - A Booster Activity - Mathematics
    This activity explains how fractions work, using simple everyday examples. There is a fun interactive quiz to test and reinforce understanding.
  37. Virtual Keyboard - Music
    This activity allows you to explore a variety of sounds using a virtual keyboard. Click on the drop-down list of sounds to select your instrument and then click on the keyboard to create your composition.
  38. Orienteering around Aston Park - PE
    This is an exercise that has been developed to introduce you to orienteering.
  39. Orienteering around Cannon Hill Park - PE
    This is an exercise that has been developed to introduce you to orienteering.
  40. Gestures - PSHE
    This activity shows how a variety of gestures can have different meanings to different people. Look at each picture and then click on the words that match the gesture.
  41. Road Safety Crossword - PSHE
    To solve the crossword, click on an answer number to see the clue in the notepad.
  42. Road Safety Wordsearch - PSHE
    Test your knowledge about road safety and cycling with this online wordsearch.
  43. The School Council - PSHE
    This resource shows you how to go about setting up a School Council for your school.
  44. Sacred Sites - RE
    Have you ever been to a Synagogue or a Church or a Mosque? Have ever visited a Buddhist Temple, a Gurdwara or a Hindu Temple?
  45. A Question of Religion - RE
    This is an interactive board game that tests your knowledge about Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Sikhism.
  46. Holy Books - RE
    This is a series of activities based around the Holy Books taken from Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism.
  47. Changing Matter - Science
    The kinetic theory of matter states that matter is made up of small particles which are constantly in motion. The higher the temperature, the faster the particles move.
  48. Material Matters - Science
    This activity is a short tour to look at different materials and their properties.
  49. Hams Hall Pond (Primary) - Science
    This activity is based on a real pond in Lea Marston in Warwickshire. You can play a life cycles game, learn about food chains, and read about pond creatures.
  50. Physical Processes - Light - Science
    This is a set of activity and evaluation worksheets based on the Science strand: Physical Processes, Light and Sound.
  51. What shape is the Moon? - Science
    Do you know why the Moon is the shape that it is? Click on the campfire and then move the mouse over the children sitting around it.
Key Stage 3 and above
  1. Finger Spelling - Citizenship, PSHE
    Learn how to use a version of sign language called British two-handed finger spelling alphabet. Enter your name and see what it looks like in Finger Spelling.
  2. Sarehole Mill - D&T, History
    This activity helps you understand the history and workings of Sarehole Mill in Hall Green, Birmingham. The activity is full of animations showing you how the mill wheel, gears and grinding process works.
  3. Mental Gym - English, Mathematics
    This activity really gives your mental maths and spelling skills a workout!
  4. Counter Attack - English, Mathematics
    This activity is based on the popular children's game, 'Connect 4' where players have to create a line of four counters (vertical, horizontal or diagonal) on a grid by dropping coloured counters through a frame.
  5. Rivers and Bridges - Geography
    Learn about your local area's rivers and bridges. Find out how the water cycle works.
  6. Brief Encounter with Aston Hall - History
    This activity takes you on an interactive tour around Aston Hall. After you have learned all about its history there is also a quiz to test your knowledge.
  7. The Battle of Bosworth - History
    Who won the Battle of Bosworth? Why was it such a significant event in British history?
  8. The Tudors - History
    A fascinating collection of sources about the Tudors.
  9. Understanding Electronic Point of Sale Systems - ICT
    A fun demonstration of an EPOS (Electronic Point of Sale) system which shows you how a supermarket's reordering system works.
  10. Virtual Dice - Mathematics
    This resource contains a set of four 'virtual' dice with six, eight, ten and twelve sides. In addition, each die can be customised to give maximum flexibility.
  11. Shapes - Mathematics
    Shapes is an activity which supports the development and understanding of 2D and 3D shapes.
  12. Matchstick Patterns - Mathematics
    You can use this activity to create your own series of patterns and work out the relationship between each pattern. You can also use the endless pile of matchsticks to create your own shapes.
  13. Matchstick Sequencing - Mathematics
    This activity is designed to encourage the exploration of patterns and sequencing, together with investigating the underlying mathematics.
  14. Place Value (Secondary) - Mathematics
    Start by selecting the type of number you want to be tested on. Do you want it to be integers (whole numbers), numbers with one decimal place or even numbers with three decimal places?
  15. Co-ordinate Game - Mathematics
    This activity test your knowledge of co-ordinates using a 5x5 grid.
  16. Co-ordinate Shapes - Mathematics
    This activity will allow you to develop your understanding of co-ordinates and shapes. There are many situations in which you might need to describe your position and direction of travel.
  17. Crossing the River - Mathematics
    Your task is to get all the monkeys from one side of the river to the other by using the floating log. There is a problem! The log can only carry one adult monkey or up to two young monkeys at any one time.
  18. Volumes and Capacities - Mathematics
    This is a set of problem solving activities that will test your powers of reasoning, logic and maths. You are presented with two containers of differing capacities and a target volume.
  19. Virtual Keyboard - Music
    This activity allows you to explore a variety of sounds using a virtual keyboard. Click on the drop-down list of sounds to select your instrument and then click on the keyboard to create your composition.
  20. Music Lesson Plan - Music
    A lesson plan for the Key Stage 3 Music teacher which can be extended over half a term. It can be used in conjunction with the online activity - the 'Music Studio'. It can be used to support creating and developing musical ideas and also covers composing skills.
  21. Orienteering around Aston Park - PE
    This is an exercise that has been developed to introduce you to orienteering.

    Orienteering around Cannon Hill Park - PE
    This is an exercise that has been developed to introduce you to orienteering.
  22. Sacred Places - RE
    This is a tour around some of the significant places of worship. Six of the world's major faiths are included and can be accessed by clicking on the map.
  23. Cells - A Life Processes and Living Things Crossword - Science
    This crossword is a fun way of testing your knowledge about cells and different kinds of organ.
  24. Changing Matter - Science
    The kinetic theory of matter states that matter is made up of small particles which are constantly in motion. The higher the temperature, the faster the particles move.
  25. Elephant Feet - Science
    What would happen if an elephant were to step on your toes? The answer may surprise you. This activity explores the relationship between pressure and surface area.
  26. Hams Hall Pond (Secondary) - Science
    This activity centres around Hams Hall Pond in Warwickshire. Start at the Virtual Pond and work through the activities to gain a real insight into freshwater environments.
  27. Making Bread - Microbes - Science
    This is a series of investigations and activities developed to help pupils understand about microbes and the parts they play in human health.
  28. Chemical Equations - Key Stage 4, Science
    This exercise presents you with a series of chemical equations which need completing.
Activities are listed in Key Stages and Subjects in alphabetical order
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Foundation Stage
Key Stage 1
Key Stage 2
Key Stage 3 and above
The numbers are for easy reference