For Kids

Essentials is a colourful and entertaining set of educational websites which allow primary age children to explore the key issues in science, geography and history at Key Stage 2. They feature bright, child-friendly navigation, interactive quizzes that test your knowledge and creative activities for children to do themselves.

For teachers

All the content is designed to support the Learning Outcomes for the QCA Schemes of Work. Separate navigation is provided for teachers which allows them to access the content according to QCA unit number. In addition, the sites can be searched through the topics of the national curricula for Wales, Northern Ireland and England and the Attainment Outcomes for Scotland. There are over 150 free downloadable worksheets for teachers to use in the classroom, an extensive image bank and useful weblinks.

More information can be found within the sites themselves.

Copyright

This site is owned and operated by Channel 4's education division, 4Learning. All copyright, trade marks and all other intellectual property rights in History Essentials (including the design, arrangement and look and feel) and all material or content supplied as part of History Essentials shall remain at all times vested in Channel 4 or Channel 4's licensors.

Channel 4 give permission for the History Essentials worksheets and image bank images to be modified and distributed when used for non-profit, non-commercial educational purposes. Channel 4 accept no responsibility for these modifications.

For all other content on Channel 4's webpages, you agree that you will access the contents solely for your own personal, non-commercial use but not for any commercial or public use. You may not and agree not to permit or facilitate any third party to copy, reproduce, download, post, store (including in any other web site), distribute, transmit, broadcast, commercially exploit, adapt or change in any way such material or content or for any other purpose without Channel 4's prior written permission.