sherborne-primary-app-list

Sherborne Primary School Suggested Apps Spellwizards

Spellwizards is a fantastic web based app that aims to help young children in all stages and in all years of primary school to enhance and develop a multitude of literacy based skills such as spelling, typing and listening skills.

Animation Kit

Animation Kit app is an easy to use, child-friendly platform for creating exciting animation sequences using drawings, photos, shapes and text.

What we love about Animation Kit is the simplicity and ease at which a complex animation can be created in a short space of time. Our users found the application very intuitive and easy to navigate. The app has the potential to be used in many areas of the curriculum such as computer science, art, animation, storyboarding and more.

News-O-Matic EDU

News-O-Matic is the first daily newspaper just for students. It provides an exciting and engaging nonfiction experience for students, complete with valuable literacy tools for the classroom. Thanks to its unique combination of editorial and technology, News-O-Matic creates innovative solutions to help students become tomorrow’s responsible citizens. It gives young readers a window into the world — and a reason to love reading news.

Book Creator

Book Creator is an amazingly easy-to-use digital bookmaking tool, this app is accessible even to kids in early elementary school grades to produce and publish their own simple books or comics with images, videos, and audio. Readers can access published books via iBooks or other online sources, or books can be printed on paper. Before creating that first book, it's helpful to read the basic tutorial.

Quizlet

With the Quizlet app, students can search an online database of more than 13 million user-created flashcard sets on a wide variety of topics. This app is free, and the content varies from highly useful to useless. The app is for reviewing flashcards and students can use it to create their own sets of flashcards.

Popplet

Popplet app can be used to organise thoughts and ideas in visual form using diagrams, charts and mindmaps for elementary to high school students requiring a minimalist approach to presentations. Popplet is an excellent way for students to create graphic organisers to organise and share what they have learned! It is easy to use, allows the user to incorporate images and text, and can be exported to photos to be shared via a website.

Memrise

Memrise is a fun and efficient memorisation tool for the classroom and beyond. It uses some creative and easy way to remember words for learning English. The focus of this app is to help the users expand their vocabulary by learning English words in an effective way. Memrise is being used so imaginatively and effectively to teach subjects outside the realm of language vocabulary. iMovie

iMovie is an app that can be used across all age groups in schools. Teachers can also use iMovie as a tool for introducing content in a meaningful way. The presentations created by iMovie are highly distinguished and are ideal for classroom teaching. Both teachers and students can use iMovie to document and record events outside of the school and that has relevance to the units being taught in the classroom. Students can use iMovie to tell stories using digital media including pictures, images, and music. This can improve their verbal fluency and their communicative skills.

Comic Life

Comic Life app is an excellent complement to their lesson plans for beginning and intermediate readers and writers. Comic Life is perfect for engaging reluctant readers and teaching visual literacy, perfect for integrating STEAM and Common Core Standards into your lessons. Easy to learn and fun to use, Comic Life is a great tool for any student.

Mathletics

Mathletics is the world’s leading educational resource for mathematics, created by the team behind the World Education Games. Over 4 million students in schools across the world are a part of our global learning community. Many schools have introduced their students to the competitive thrills provided by Mathletics. If your child’s school is not one of these, you can still let them experience learning and practising maths by competing against children from all over the world.

Bee-Bot

Bee-Bot is the perfect app to teach young children control, directional language and programming. Bee-Bot can remember up to 40 commands and so encourages increasingly sophisticated plans and programs. Children love to teach Bee-Bot how to go from place to place and learn to plan, count and tell left from right as they do. It is equally adaptable to both home learning and school classroom environments and boosts enthusiasm for experimentation and learning wherever it is used.

Notability

Notability is one of the most versatile apps available for notes taking. You can type or write notes on notebooks and organise them into folders inside the app. However, it also lets you annotate PDFs, which can be great for grading student papers. Notability also records audio and lets you take notes at the same time. So, you could be having a reading conference with a student, or testing their reading fluency with the audio recorder, while taking notes at the same time on your iPad. One of the primary reasons is because of the workflows that teachers and students can create in order to retrieve, annotate and submit work.

ABCya Games

ABCya Games provides over 400 fun and educational games for grades PreK through 6.

Their activities are designed by parents and educators, who understand that children learn better if they are having fun. Games are categorized by grade and subject, and cover topics such as multiplication, parts of speech, typing, pattern recognition, and more Many ABCya games are aligned to the Common Core State Standards. This means your kids can learn the essential skills they need to succeed, in a way that’s playful and fun.

Pixton EDU

Pixton EDU is an interactive platform that gives teachers and students a unique way for creating comic book storyboards using avatars, backgrounds, text and themes to be shared within the classroom.

Users can explore topics in Math, Science, Social Studies, History, English or Art. Choose images from popular content, books and movies like The Hunger Games or The Outsiders, plus other topics like the solar system, black history or the environment – all Common Core aligned.

Mazaam

Mazaam - The Musical Genius is an engaging and animated app for students to develop their understanding of music through a range of games and levels.

You can also see all of the things your student has worked through on the app, how many stars they have achieved, and therefore how much progress they have made across different musical elements such as tempo, pitch, intensity, harmony and timbre. This is really fantastic for adults to be able to identify strengths and weaknesses for their student across the different levels and worlds.