Apps/sites for learning

Find below a set of links to the apps and websites we regularly use in school, that require a child's log in details.

If you haven't got your child's details, please speak to their class teacher or email us at contactus@northormesbyacademy.org

www.SPaG.com (KS2 only)

www.oxfordreadingbuddy.com/uk

www.ttrockstars.com

Free learning iPad apps, we use in school:

‎Keynote‎Keynote is the most powerful presentation app ever designed for a mobile device. Built from the ground up for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, it makes creating a world-class presentation — complete with animated charts and cinematic transitions — as simple as touching and tapping. Start with an Apple-…

‎Clips‎Clips is a free app for making fun videos to share with friends and family. With a few taps you can create and send a video message or tell a quick story with artistic filters, animated text, music, emoji, and fun stickers featuring characters from Star Wars, Disney•Pixar and more. Make quick video…

‎Pages‎Pages is the most beautiful word processor you’ve ever seen on a mobile device. Start with an Apple-designed template to instantly create gorgeous reports, digital books, CVs, posters and more. Or use a blank document and create your own design. Easily add images, movies, audio, charts and shapes. Y…

‎Numbers‎Numbers is the most innovative spreadsheet app ever designed for a mobile device. Created exclusively for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, Numbers includes support for Multi-Touch gestures and Smart Zoom so you can create powerful spreadsheets using just your fingers. Start with one of over 30 Apple-de…

‎Popplet Lite‎Popplet is the simplest tool to capture and organize your ideas. With Popplet you can quick jot down your ideas and sort them visually. Apple has featured us in "Tools for Teachers", "New and Noteworthy", "What's Hot" and "Get Stuff Done" Popplet is great for school and for learning in the class…

‎TinyTap - Kids Learning Games‎TinyTap is the #1 kids app for parents who want to turn their kid’s screen time into an active learning experience. Join the millions of parents worldwide who use TinyTap as their favorite everyday kids’ learning tool. *** #1 learning app for kids in 24 countries *** *** Best educational games…

‎ThingLink‎Immersive storytelling for everyone: Easily augment photos with text, audio, closeup photos, links, and video. Create images with sound, explain what’s in the picture with notes and narration, document nature around you, send instructions for how things work, or tell an engaging story of what you’ve…

‎Sketch Nation Create‎DO YOU WANT TO MAKE YOUR OWN GAMES? Sketch Nation Create is a game-creation platform that lets you create online games with enormous flexibility, imagination, detail and fun – and share these games with friends and the Sketch Nation community! With you own artwork, photos and sounds, you can desig…

‎Bloxels EDU‎Build, play, and share your own games and interactive stories. Create characters, build a world, and tell your stories. When you're ready, publish your games to the Bloxels Arcade and play games by other Bloxels creators! Own a Bloxels Game Studio Kit? Build your creations using the physical Bloxel…

‎ChatterPix Kids‎Create ChatterPix with friends and family as silly greetings, playful messages, creative cards, or even fancy book reports. And best of all, it’s FREE! AGES: 5-12. NOTE: For adults, check out our “ChatterPix” app for more fun and sharing via email and social media. CATEGORY: Creative Expression T…

‎Daisy the Dinosaur‎Learn the basics of coding with Daisy the Dinosaur! Built by the creators of Hopscotch. This free, fun app has an easy drag & drop interface that kids of all ages can use to animate Daisy and make her dance on their screen. Kids will intuitively grasp the basics of objects, sequencing, loops and e…

‎Tynker: Coding for Kids‎Tynker is the #1 Kids Coding platform! Over 60 million kids and thousands of schools use Tynker's award-winning curriculum to learn to code. Try an Hour of Code with Tynker! Strengthen your child’s educational foundation with step-by-step tutorials that teach kids coding in a way they enjoy. Your c…

‎Swift Playgrounds‎Swift Playgrounds is a revolutionary app that makes it fun to learn and experiment with code. You solve interactive puzzles in the guided “Learn to Code” lessons to master the basics of coding, or experiment with a wide range of challenges that let you explore many unique coding experiences. Swift…

‎Tayasui Sketches School‎Because beautiful tools make beautiful drawings, we endlessly refined Sketches brushes to create the most realistic drawing tools. Sketches school is a special edition of Sketches targeted for a younger audience, with a specifically designed interface making it very accessible to kids. Sketches i…

‎Epic! - Kids’ Books and Videos‎Welcome to Epic! - the leading digital library for kids, where kids can explore their interests and learn with instant, unlimited access to 35,000 high-quality ebooks, audiobooks, learning videos, and quizzes for kids 12 and under. There are 2 versions of Epic!, both accessible through this app: 1…

‎A.L.E.X.‎A.L.E.X. is a fun puzzle game and a great way to train your brain. A.L.E.X. helps you think and plan logically as you program your robot A.L.E.X. with a sequence of commands to get through each level from start to finish. I named A.L.E.X. after my nephew, and created a game I would want him to pla…

‎Number Frames, by MLC‎Number Frames help students structure numbers to five, ten, twenty, and one hundred. Students use the frames to count, represent, compare, and compute with numbers in a particular range. The frames help students see quantities as equal groups of other quantities and in relation to benchmark quantit…

‎Geoboard, by The Math Learning Center‎Geoboard is a tool for exploring a variety of mathematical topics introduced in the elementary and middle grades. Learners stretch bands around the pegs to form line segments and polygons and make discoveries about perimeter, area, angles, congruence, fractions, and more. This virtual version of the…

‎Number Pieces, by MLC‎Number Pieces helps students develop a deeper understanding of place value while building their computation skills with multi-digit numbers. Students use the number pieces to represent multi-digit numbers, regroup, add, subtract, multiply, and divide. FEATURES • Add and manipulate pieces (ones, te…

‎Number Line, by MLC‎Number Line helps students visualize number sequences and demonstrate strategies for counting, comparing, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing. Choose number lines labelled with whole numbers, fractions, decimals, or negative numbers. Or use a blank number line, with or without tick marks.…

Paid learning iPad apps, we use in school:

‎Spelling Shed‎Introducing The Spelling Shed! Fun for learners and easy for educators. Learn to spell all the words required by the English national curriculum for years 1-6. Now on all iOS devices! Designed by a team of primary school teachers, with primary school students, teachers and parents in mind this spel…

‎The Reading Realm‎A fun and engaging app for children to develop reading for pleasure and improve their grammar, vocabulary and spelling skills, with over one hundred passages and extracts from a huge range of children’s authors and poets used with kind permission from the publishers.

‎Logic Squares‎Be nimble with numbers and think strategically in the addictive maths app Logic Squares. Starting with numbers 1-10, players must fill in the different calculations in each grid using each number only once. As the 25 levels progress in difficulty, players must manipulate numbers with increasing skil…

‎Book Creator for iPad‎* THE No.1 Book app for the iPad in 90+ countries. * Common Sense Education Top Pick for Learning 2018 * AASL Best website for Teaching & Learning 2018 Book Creator is the simple way to make your own beautiful ebooks, right on your iPad. With over 50 million ebooks created so far, Book Creator is…

‎Comic Life 3‎The Most Powerful Photo Comic Creation App Available. "Of the comic book apps I’ve used, Comic Life, [...], has the most features and works best on an iPad because of the bigger screen... I love the way the app allows you to edit tiny details, from the shape and style of word bubbles to the size an…

‎Morfo 3D Face Booth‎Make an amazing talking 3D face from a photo of anyone, then record and send videos to all your friends! Use Morfo 3D Face Booth with a photo of a friend, celebrity, pet or just about any object you can imagine - and quickly create a talking, dancing, life-like 3D character! Once captured, make you…

‎Green Screen by Do Ink‎The #1 Green Screen app for the iPad and iPhone in Education is also a 2019 Winner of the Best Apps for Teaching and Learning by the AASL (American Association of School Librarians). Classroom-tested by kids and teachers, this app emphasizes ease-of-use and simplicity while still enabling fantastic…

‎Pixelmator‎Pixelmator is a powerful, full-featured, layer-based image editor that lets you touch up and enhance images, sketch, and paint, as well as create advanced image compositions on iPad and iPhone alike. Pixelmator has everything you need — whether you’re a mobile photographer, mobile painter, or mobi…

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