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These handy homework helpers give you all the tools to support your kids’ education...

As parents, we’ve all been asked to help with homework and found we haven’t a clue of the answer, struggled to recall the method for getting to the answer in the first place… or worse, found out that the answer has changed since our time at school! 

Give yourself a break with these top five resource sites that are designed to help with homework. Whether you want supporting resources as you help your kids learn, or need platforms where your kids can learn independently, these websites are a great place to start…

Help with homework

1. national geographic kids.

Okay, so we’re biased, but hear us out. National Geographic Kids compliments the curriculum and prides itself on being an ‘edutainer’ – that is, kids have so much engaging with our content, they don’t even realise they’re learning!

There are lots of ways for National Geographic Kids to help with homework, so here’s a quick run-down…

• – Our top-selling monthly magazine covers everything from science to nature to world culture, giving kids a helping hand with all sorts of topics that might come up at school. Plus, it’s FUN, filled with brain-boosting activities and games alongside top tips to help our planet. In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, readers aged 7-12 can benefit from a 13-issue monthly subscription to National Geographic Kids magazine , and in the UK only, we also publish a Little Kids magazine perfect for ages 3-6 .

• – While our printed magazine is great for cutting down on screen time , our website is bursting with free homework help. Here, kids can find fact files, features and quizzes on everything from the Great Wall of China to the structure of the Earth .
• – Finally, whether you’re a parent, teacher or home educator, it’s worth exploring our online Primary Resources section. These curriculum-aligned, downloadable resources cover Science, Geography, Maths, English and everything between. Plus, they come with activity suggestions and guidance on how best to use them.

2. The School Run

This website is designed specifically for parents! It includes worksheets, activities and learning games for EYFS, KS1 & KS2 that support your kids’ school work. Visit it here !

3. BBC Bitesize

With just the kind of top quality content you’d expect from the BBC, the Bitesize website has videos, step-by-step guides, activities and quizzes, organised by level and subject. Great for parents supporting kids’ learning or for learning independently, too. Head over to their website to find out more.

4. Ducksters

This educational site covers history, science, geography, maths and more through games and activities in a digestible, family-friendly format. Find out more at ducksters.com !

5. Primary Homework Help

Bursting with curriculum-aligned topics, this site is easily navigable for both parents and kids. While it’s less interactive than some of the other sites listed above, the quality of the content comes with the added credibility of being written and created by a primary school teacher. Visit it here !

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Spelling for kids

Spelling for kids learning English at primary school. EYFS, KS1 & KS2 homework help with worksheets, links, game and videos.

Pick a level

If you find the spellings difficult in your year then try starting with spellings from the year below. It's ok to work lower than the year you are on and fill the gaps rather than struggling at your level without understanding the basics.

Check what your spelling level is with our online test.

Get tested on 12 words and find out what level is best for you.

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Learning spellings

Practice your spellings for four days then get someone to test you on the fifth day without looking at the words first.

Download our spelling sheets for lists of words to practice spelling.

Year 1 spelling worksheets

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Spellings - Tips for parents

One of the best ways that you can help your child's education at home is to support them with their spellings. We have made this easy for you with our print at home spelling worksheets for all years. These focus on the essential words your child needs to know to become top of the class in their spellings.

If you are unsure of what level of spelling your child is at, take our new online spelling test (links above) to find out. Start with the test appropriate to their year and the results will give advice on whether their level should be higher or lower.

What if my child is really behind on their spellings?

It's not uncommon to be lower than where they should be. But don't worry you can close this gap. Our spelling sheets work from Monday to Friday and there are fewer sheets than there are weeks in a year. So by using weekends and continuously working through the years, there is every chance of catching up.

Say your child knows half the words from a particular year but they need to fill in the gaps of the ones they don't know. Test your child first on the spellings for that week. Any words they don't know straight away without seeing them should be the ones they are tested on. Leave the others out and they will soon catch up.

Did you know?

Helping your child become confident at spelling allows them to focus on the content of their writing rather than worrying about the spelling of words.

Future exams take away a percentage of marks for poor spelling. This can make all the difference in that grades they are awarded.

Reading can improve spelling. When your child reads more often they will start to recognise words that look wrong.

It's never too late to do something about poor spellings.

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The Stone Age

What was the Stone Age?

The Stone Age is the name given to the earliest period of human culture when stone tools were first used . In Britain, the Stone Age was around 12,000 years ago .

When people began smelting metal around 4500 years ago the Bronze Age began in the British Isles.

Top 10 facts

• Our ancestor, modern man  Homo sapiens , emerged around 200,000 years ago.
• Homo habilis , an early human who evolved around 2.3 million years ago, was probably the first to make stone tools.
• Neanderthals died out around 30,000 years ago.
• Flint was commonly used for making stone tools but other stones such as chert and obsidian were also used.
• The Stone Age is divided into three periods; the Palaeolithic (old Stone Age), Mesolithic (middle Stone Age) and the Neolithic (new Stone Age).
• Palaeolithic and Mesolithic people were nomadic hunter gatherers . They moved frequently following the animals that they hunted and gathering fruits and berries when they could.
• The dog was the first animal to be domesticated. This happened during the Mesolithic period. Dogs could help with the hunt, warn of danger and provide warmth and comfort.
• The gradual development of agriculture and the domestication of animals during the Neolithic period meant that people could live in settled communities.
• Some isolated tribespeople were still effectively living in the Stone Age as recently as the twentieth century.
• The houses in Skara Brae , a Neolithic Orkney village, had beds, cupboards, dressers, shelves and chairs.

Stone Age Timeline

• 300,000-150,000 years ago Appearance of Homo sapiens in Africa

• 35,000 years ago Tally sticks (for counting)
• 30,000 years ago Neanderthals become extinct
• 28,000-20,000 years ago Use of needles, saws and harpoons
• 27,000 years ago Earliest evidence of weaving
• 25,000 years ago Earliest pottery
• 15,000 years ago Domestication of pigs
• 13,000-10,000 years ago End of last Ice Age
• 10,500 years ago Cattle domesticated
• 10,000-9000 years ago Barley and wheat cultivated
• 9,500 years ago Cat domesticated
• 8,000 years ago Sheep and goats domesticated; irrigation began; wheel invented
• 7,000 years ago Gold treasure in burials in Bulgaria
• 7,500 years ago First smelting of copper
• 6,000 years ago Domestication of horse and chicken

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• The Palaeolithic period lasted for such a long time that it accounts for 99% of all human history.
• The first cities did not have streets. The houses were joined together and you walked across the roofs.
• Forty percent of the skeletons recovered from an Egyptian Mesolithic cemetery showed signs of violent injuries. Archaeologists believe that they may provide the earliest evidence of warfare.
• The city of Jericho was founded 11,000 years ago.
• Dogs were domesticated from wolves.
• The houses in Skara Brae had toilets flushed by streams.

Stone Age gallery:

• A Stone Age tool set (Photo Credit: Michael Greenhalgh)
• Skara Brae in Scotland
• The stone circle at Avebury
• Castlerigg in the Lake District
• A Neolithic grave in Sweden
• Neolithic tools
• Recreated Neolithic stilt houses
• Carnac in Brittany, France, known for its unique rows of ancient standing stones
• A recreated Neolithic village

The Palaeolithic or old Stone Age lasted from 2.7 million years ago to around 20,000 to 10,000 years ago . Britain would have looked very different during the Paleolithic: there were a number of cold periods called ice ages and the shape of landscapes changed as it became warmer and colder. During the Lower Palaeolithic Britian was not an island, but connected to mainland Europe. Some time between 400,000 and 200,000 years ago that changed and the area between the British Isles and what is now Denmark flooded and finally disappeared under the sea about 7500 years ago. A number of distinct groups of humans lived during the Paleolithic but only our ancestor Homo sapiens has survived. During this time men were hunter gatherers , finding food from their local environment and moving from site to site depending on the season. Tools were made of stone but also of wood, bone, leather and vegetable fibres. Language also developed and its early forms may have been similar to the click languages used by some South and East African peoples today. The period also saw the beginnings of art , such as the cave paintings of Chauvet in France and Venus figurines (statues of pregnant women) and the development of religion . The Mesolithic or middle Stone Age saw the development of finer, smaller stone tools such as arrow or spear heads. The first evidence for homes in Britain comes from this period, and the first  canoes were made. This meant that men could fish as well as hunt. The dog was also domesticated during this period, probably by the selection and breeding of the least aggressive wolves. The Neolithic or new Stone Age, from around 6000 years ago, saw the beginnings of agriculture . Farmers from mainland Europe probably brought seeds and farming tools to Britain. Growing crops was a more reliable food supply than gathering wild plants and the landscape was transformed by a new type of life, linked to settled communities of people. Animals such as the cow and sheep were domesticated and provided a ready supply of meat, milk, wool, leather and bone. Grain was the first food that could be stored for long periods of time. Grain needed to be processed so stones were used for scything (cutting grass crops) and grinding. The need to harvest and store grain meant that it became necessary to stay in one place and settlements could develop. Trees were cut down to make clearings where crops could be grown and people worked together to construct trackways and paths.  Large scale construction could take place, trade developed and people began to have different roles such as leader, priest, fighter, farmer, hunter or slave. By the end of the Stone Age people created enclosures by piling up circular earth banks, perhaps to protect themselves and their animals, and buried their dead in huge earth mounds and under stone slabs . Silbury Hill, in Wiltshire, is the largest prehistoric earth mound in Europe. Built around 4500 years ago, its height and volume are similar to those of Egyptian pyramids , which were built at around the same time, 2500BC. It's been estimated that its construction must have taken around 4 million man hours of work.

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• Make your own Stone Age paper axe tool
• Stone Age jigsaw puzzles
• Could you make it in the stone age? Take this quiz and find out!
• Get into the minds of Ancient Britons, build a stone circle, create cave art and read some great fiction and non-fiction books about Ancient Britain
• Watch a video about Stone Age Hunter-Gatherer Cooking
• Make your own Stone Age cheese!
• Play a game on the Chauvet Cave website to discover just how much we have in common with prehistoric humans
• Learn all about ancient stone tools
• Download two brilliant comics about Stone Age Wales  sites:  Barclodiad y Gawres  and  Bryn Celli Ddu
• Try a Stone Age counting activity
• Learn to make your own Stone Age string (cordage)
• Can you match the prehistoric track to the animal that made it ?
• Get creative and make some Stone Age rock art
• Complete the Museum of London's prehistoric archaeology activity pack
• Download and print an instant Stone-Age dress-up kit
• Show off your knowledge with a hunter-gatherer quiz and try some Stone-Age storytelling

Children's books about the Stone Age

Find out more about the Stone Age

• A general introduction to prehistoric Britain from BBC Bitesize
• Read about  a 9000-year-old human settlement at Mountsandel  in Northern Ireland
• Understand how Stone Age hunter-gatherers lived  and who the first farmers were
• Read kids' historical fiction set in the Stone Age
• Introduction to Stone Age including cave art
• Download fantastic information booklets about Yorkshire in the Mesolithic period, Mesolithic life and hunter-gatherer people
• Visit a virtual museum of the Stone Age
• An archeological experiment in London tried out ways of moving large stones which might have been used in places like Stonehenge
• Find out about food  in prehistoric times
• See a Paleolithic  handaxe, found in Somalia in East Africa, which was made about 1.5 million years ago !
• Join historian Greg Jenner for a  BBC Sounds kids' homeschool history lesson on the Stone Age
• Using virtual reality, scientists have recreated the sounds of Stonehenge from 3,000 years ago
• Read about Stone Age tools found in Yorkshire
• Take a close look at Stone Age objects found in Britain: a piece of small, portable Ice Age art showing an animal from Britain, a carved stone ball from Skara Brae , a 500,000 year old hand axe , a  Mesolithic woodworking tool , a  Mesolithic headdress made from deer antlers and a  Neolithic quern for making flour
• Download a Neolithic Britain image bank from the British Museum
• Information about prehistoric pottery , made for the first time in the Neolithic period
• Why were flint and mining so important to prehistoric Britons?
• Find out more about daily life in prehistoric Britain , with links to more information about art, commerce, religion and more
• Stonehenge food and feasting : how people cooked and served their food
• Read about the mystery of Stonehenge engineering : how was it built by prehistoric people?
• Discover Stone Age art and images of daily life on the 10,000 Years BC website

See for yourself

• Creswell Crags in Derbyshire : first inhabited by Neanderthals, these cave dwellings with carvings date back to the Palaeolithic era
• Stonehenge is Britain’s foremost neolithic site. You can take a virtual tour of Stonehenge from your living room with a 360 degree view from the monument.  
• Look through the BBC Bitesize kids' guide to Stonehenge
• Visit the Wiltshire Museum to see treasures dating to the time of Stonehenge and worn by people who worshipped inside the stone circle
• Silbury Hill , the Avebury Ring and the Sanctuary are all close to Stonehenge in Wiltshire
• See replica Stone Age artefacts and listen to experts explain how the objects were created and used
• Skara Brae in the Orkney Islands is one of Northern Europe’s best preserved Neolithic villages; look through a Skara Brae gallery to see inside the houses
• Castlerrig stone circle near Keswick
• Bryn Celli Ddu is a Neolithic chambered tomb in Wales
• The Megalithic Portal offers a map of ancient sites in the British Isles and Europe
• Visit the reconstruction of a Neolithic log cabin at the Ancient Technology Outdoor Education Centre
• Butser Ancient Farm features archaeological reconstructions of ancient buildings from the Stone Age
• Chauvet Cave is a 36,000-year-old French "art gallery". Take an immersive journey through the cave with Star Wars actress Daisy Ridley in a new Virtual Reality experience

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