Recommended Apps
Book Creator
General purpose, suitable for ages 5 - adult
We use Book Creator for
- posters
- science lessons for taking photographs and describing
- creating comic books
- recording sound
- mindmaps
…and of course….making books!
Available for iPads and online.
Purple Mash
General purpose - suitable for ages 5 - adult
Purple Mash contains a huge range of useful tools. Some of the highlights include:
- 2Type typing tutor
- large range of writing templats
- painting applications
- 2Code programming environment
- 2Create a story - storytelling app
- Table Toons - multiplication tables quizzes
Purple Mash is available from home or school from:
https://www.purplemash.com/sch/furze-mk18
Your child should have a login in his or her planner.
RM Easimaths - suitable for ages 5 to adult
Online mathematics learning system. Your child may have been given an account from school. RM Easimaths can be used from a PC or from a tablet with the app installed.
Bug Club
Your child will be provided with a Bug Club login if appropriate.
From Pearson:
Bug Club is the only whole-school reading programme that brilliantly combines an online reading world with fantastic print books, and assessment tools.
Clicker Connect - iPad app
From Crick Software:
Enable young learners and struggling writers to take their first steps to independent writing. A perfect 'next step' for Clicker Sentences users, Clicker Connect provides students with clusters of words, phrases, and/or pictures to help them build coherent text.
Further information
Mr Adams' Blog
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