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READING LISTS

  • HWS Sixth Form Reading Marathon Booklet
  • Year 7 Suggested Reading List
  • Years 8-9 Suggested Reading List
  • Years 10-11 Suggested Reading List

READING SOURCES

  • Sorrap is a huge collection of e-books and audiobooks, available free. Just select Highgate Wood School from the list and login with your regular .309 username and password.
  • myON A collection of more than 6000 eBooks, searchable by Accelerated Reader level. (Click here for search guide.)
  • Project Gutenberg: A library of over 60,000 free out-of-copyright eBooks.
  • Poetry Foundation: Contemporary and classic poetry.
  • Go Comics: A collection of free comics and graphic novels.
  • Comixology:  A collection of free comics and graphic novels
  • International children’s library: free ebooks
  • The Children’s Poetry Archive:an archive of spoken poetry recordings.
  • Audible: Free streams of a wide range of audio books whilst schools are closed.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE, LITERATURE:

  • BBC Bitesize: 
  • Puzzlemaker: generate your own crosswords
  • World Book Day: everything from book extracts to lesson plans
  • International children’s library: free ebooks
  • Project Gutenberg: public domain ebooks
  • Rivet: a free reading app with over 3,500 titles
  • Grammar practice: free, digestible worksheets
  • Quill.org: making students better writers
  • The complete works of William Shakespeare
  • English Mastery: Downloadable resource books providing 12 weeks of activities covering writing and poetry

MATHS:

  • BBC Bitesize: 
  • Khan Academy: various remote courses
  • Maths and games for kids
  • Dr Frost Maths: All students have a school account for this.  Check your gmail (@hws.uk.com) account.
  • Revision maths: GCSE papers, maths for teenagers resources
  • HippoCampus: thousands of STEM explainers and videos
  • Mathspad: Lots of useful activities and resources
  • Mathigon: a comprehensive website exploring mathematical topics
  • Transum: maths games, exercises, tests
  • Prodigy: free mathematics practice
  • Parallel: Awesome collection of Maths extension projects – students can self register for an account
  • Math chase: free online games
  • Corbett Maths: a range of videos and downloadable questions categorised by topic and predicted grade.
  • Maths Kitchen: an interactive GCSE revision website. Resources are categorised by topic, including video lessons and practice questions.

SCIENCE:

  • BBC Bitesize:
  • Tassomai: Core site for Science learning.  Check with your teacher or data@hws.haringey.sch.uk if you have forgotten your details.
  • Khan Academy: various remote courses
  • Kerboodle: Great site, used by the Science department. The institution code is dru6.  Check with data@hws.haringey.sch.uk if you’ve forgotten your details
  • Mystery Doug: A weekly video answering a science question to your inbox
  • Elements: the periodic table in words and images
  • Cyber physics: Notes on a variety of physics topics
  • The Great Exhibition at Home: Royal Academy of Engineering, remote weekly engineering challenges for students
  • NASA operations
  • Discovery Mindblown: videos on interesting science topics
  • Siemens: interactive engineering games |
  • also: DIY fun experiments

ART & DESIGN, DRAMA:

  • BBC Bitesize: 
  • Tate Kids
  • The Artful parent
  • Google Arts and Culture
  • Artrageous with Nate
  • Doodles Academy: free art courses

COMPUTER SCIENCE:

  • BBC Bitesize: 
  • Khan Academy: various remote courses
  • Typing Club: learn how to touch type for free
  • Code.org: free IT and coding courses
  • LGFL: learn HTML (Login with your regular username and password)
  • Code Academy: learning HTML (Login with your G-Suite username as password – your school google account)
  • LGFL: learn Python(Login with your regular username and password
  • Code Academy: learning Python (Login with your G-Suite username as password – your school google account)
  • Roblox | Roblox Studio: learn to code for free
  • CodingOverload: free computer science activities
  • Thunkable: learn how to develop mobile app
  • Women in Computing: A celebration of the positive contribution of women to the development of computing in the UK.
  • Visit Microsoft Minecraft Education and enter your school email address (your username .309@lgflmail.net) to validate your account and then you will be able to download Minecraft for your device and start playing.
  • History of Computing

DESIGN TECHNOLOGY:

  • BBC Bitesize: 
  • V&A Museum: Design, Fashion, Architecture resources and activities.
  • James Dyson Foundation: Design related resources
  • Design Museum: Design related resources
  • Creative Boom: Opinion pieces about the world of design and technology
  • Dezeen.com: Opinion pieces about the world of design and technology
  • Digital Arts Online: Opinion pieces about the world of design and technology

DRAMA:

  • BBC Bitesize: 
  • What’s on stage: Plays and shows streaming online
  • National Theatre Collection on Drama Online: Only for HWS community (Username:  6Jl%8Xw-  Password:  8Ii%3Pm’)

GEOGRAPHY: 

  • BBC Bitesize: 
  • Africam: tours, live safari cams
  • Google Earth
  • World Atlas
  • GEOgraphy Focus: YouTube 
  • Wildlife with Steve Brackshall: conservation, geography lessons over Facebook | YouTube
  • The Great Wall of China: virtual tour
  • Climate change and energy science resources
  • BBC: Climate Change Food Calculator
  • Rainfall Rescue Project
  • Migration to and from London: resources and short films
  • Global Development Game
  • Geo Guesser
  • Exploring the world of Connectography map

HISTORY

  • BBC Bitesize: 
  • Revision notes: topics ranging from ancient history to the Vietnam war.
  • Natural History Museum resources
  • The Big History project
  • 60 Second Histories: free trial
  • TripSavvy: Tours around child museums
  • Historic Royal Palaces: virtual tours, video guides, stories
  • Spartacus really good resource for independent work

LANGUAGES:

  • BBC Bitesize: 
  • Linguascope: Core tool for MFL – check with your teacher for login details
  • Quizlet.com: Useful MFL site – check with your teacher for login details
  • Spanish Dictionary: Excellent site for building Spanish vocabulary
  • Kerboodle: Great site, used by the MFL department. The institution code is dru6.  Check with data@hws.haringey.sch.uk if you’ve forgotten your details
  • Duolingo: free option available
  • Babbel: Free for students for 3 months, nine languages in total available
  • Lingvist: create your own courses, 
  • Coffee Break Spanish: podcast
  • Rosetta Stone: Free for 3 months for students
  • Learn French in five days: YouTube video collection
  • Spanish 101 for beginners: YouTube video collection
  • French Radio NRJ
  • Spanish TV & Radio

MUSIC:

  • BBC Bitesize: 
  • Musicaltheory.net
  • BBC world music archive
  • Free music flashcards
  • Fender: 3 months of free guitar lessons
  • Chrome music lab: interactive activities and experiments
  • Jazz: Limited free jazz lessons and materials
  • Yousician: thousands of songs and exercises, free trial
  • Musicards: learning how to read music
  • Music GCSE revision: YouTube channel has videos specifically for GCSE revision.

PE

  • BBC Bitesize: 
  • PE with Joe (YouTube)
  • Yoga for Kids (YouTube)
  • GoNoodle: activities to burn energy for kids

REP

  • BBC Bitesize: Primary | Secondary | Post-16 (UK GCSE)
  • British Library: online exhibition of sacred texts
  • Jewish Museum online exhibition – Jewish Britain: A History in 50 Objects

OTHER  RESOURCES / SOURCES OF ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Edhelper: free daily puzzle books
  • Skillshare: thousands of free online classes on a range of topics
  • Teaching ideas: lesson bank — young learners up to middle school
  • Daily Adventurers: A daily activity video related to the outside for young learners
  • Scholastic: Limited, but free, home learning activity packs
  • Free printable worksheets: a range of subjects and ages
  • Crash course: Short videos on a variety of topics (YouTube)
  • YouVisit: Virtual reality, 360-degree tours around the world
  • Pinterest: children’s craft ideas
  • Virtual field trips
  • Zoo cameras: Panda cam, Cincinnati safaris, San Diego Zoo
  • Audible: free and paid audio books
  • TripSavvy: virtual trips around the world
  • Kids Activities blog list of companies offering free subscriptions
 

 

 

 

 

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