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‘Angels Welly Beat Schools Challenge’: A journey into musical creativity with CBeebies presenter Andy Day
International Children’s Charity, Angels, has teamed up with children’s TV presenter Andy Day to launch the ‘Angels Welly Beat Schools Challenge’. The aim of...
Engage and Accelerate: Reading resources for KS1 and KS2
It’s hard to find a one stop solution which will help children really take off with their reading. This is especially true if you are looking at resources for early...
Visual Timetable August Update
It’s been a little while since we updated our visual timetable and the resource has proved so popular over the years that we thought we’d give it some fresh attention...
Summer games
Summer is here. School holidays are beginning and, for fortunate children, there may be beaches in the offing or trips to the park. I think it should be a time of maximum...
Introducing ‘Maths Alien Adventure’ – our latest free iOS app
Things have been a little quiet on the site recently as we prepared for the launch of our latest iOS app. I’m pleased to say that the day has final arrived and we are a...
Another ELHQ App Released: The Expanding Picture Book
Another week, another app release. This time it’s The Expanding Picture Book…a picture book with a twist. The app actually consists of 4 differently themed picture bo...
Phonic Alien Adventure iOS app released!
Some of you may have noticed that it’s been a little quiet on the site recently. We have a huge backlog of resources which we will look to add to the site over the next...
Play, Progress & Achievement: Exploring Learner-Centred Practice 3-5yrs
I’d like to draw everyone’s attention to a really interesting conference organised by the national organisation Early Excellence. It is called Play, Progress & Ac...
Preschool Swipebook: New ELHQ free iPhone and iPad app available on the App Store
We’re really excited about the launch of our 2nd iOS app: Preschool Swipebook, which is now live on the App Store. It’s something we’ve been working on for a very l...
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