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.
• P
• ect: a range of free courses
• oetry 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
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• Revision maths: GCSE papers, maths for teenagers resources
• HippoCampus: thousands of STEM explainers and videos
• Mathigon: a comprehensive website exploring mathematical topics
• Transum: maths games, exercises, tests
• Prodigy: free mathematics practice
• 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:
• Khan Academy: various remote courses
• 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 Exhibiti
• on 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 SCI

• ENCE:

• 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: De
• sign, 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 Focu
• s: 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 proj
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• 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: 
• 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