BBC Bitesize

Today my son chose to spend most of the afternoon on the BBC Bitesize Website. Predominantly doing maths games.

He started off in the KS1 section, repeating games he'd done before. His favourite KS1 game is Number Pyramid. Then he moved onto the KS2 games, he found some of them ok, and some hard, but as KS2 covers 4 school years that's to be expected, especially as he was picking his own games.

The majority of the games are based on different TV programmes, including Mission 2110, Dick and Dom and Bamzooki. The games he enjoyed the most, regardless of difficulty, were the Bamzooki ones, which is one of his favourite TV programmes. I was around to give a hand when he needed it, which was mainly to do with explanation of new concepts and then he could carry on.

 This is one of the games he enjoyed


The games themselves are good, interactive, and interesting, making them both fun, and conducive to learning.

Also he found this game, called Questionaut, for some reason I can't link to it directly. So go to the KS2 page and then you will find it in the box labelled Games, it will bring up the game in a new pop up window,  It took quite a while to complete as it has various levels, and very little explanation! Despite this he really enjoyed it, although he needed a bit of help again, as it covered a wide range of topics, in maths, science and literacy, some of which were new to him.

If you are looking for a way to support your child's learning over the holidays, and they like computer games, have a try of the BBC Bitesize games, plus it's free too. You just pick whichever Key Stage (KS) they're in, or level they're working at, and what subject they fancy trying. If you're not sure about what the the Key Stages mean,  KS1 is Year 1, and Year 2, KS2 is Years 3 to 6. KS3 is Years 7 to 9, and then its GCSE (Years 10, and 11). We highly recommend giving the games a try.