Useful Links...
The links below have been provided for your use as we do believe that the websites are useful, however, they are external to the Leicester Montessori Group and as such, we cannot be held responsible for any information published on them.

Child Welfare...

Childline: http://www.childline.org.uk/

Beat Bullying site: http://www.bullying.co.uk/

Databases and Bibliographies...

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Centre): http://www2.dialogatsite.com/

Lancaster University Library database catalogue: http://libweb.lancs.ac.uk/online.htm

Social Sciences Information Gateway: http://www.sosig.ac.uk

AlphaSearch (Library of subject-related gateway sites designed for serious, academic pursuit of Web information): http://www.calvin.edu/library/as/

COPAC (National Online Public Access Catalogue): http://copac.ac.uk/copac/

EDINA (National data centre offering the UK higher education and research community network access to a library of data, information and research resources): http://edina.ed.ac.uk/index.shtml

UK Higher Education & Research Libraries The new listing of UK higher education and research library web sites: http://www.ex.ac.uk/library/uklibs.html

ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council): http://www.esrc.ac.uk

Educational Development Journals: http://www.lgu.ac.uk/deliberations/journals/

Government...

CCTA Government Information Service: http://www.open.gov.uk

Department for Education and Skills website: http://www.dfes.gov.uk

DfES parents centre: http://www.parentcentre.gov.uk/

The National Foundation for Educational Research: http://www.nfer.ac.uk

HMSO: http://www.hmso.gov.uk

National Curriculum: http://www.nc.uk.net

National Grid for Learning: http://www.ngfl.gov.uk/

OFSTED: http://www.ofsted.gov.uk

QCA website: http://www.qca.org.uk/ca/foundation/foundation_stage_profile.asp

Schools plus document: http://www.dfee.gov.uk/schools-plus/

The Standards Site: http://www.standards.dfee.gov.uk

Using the Web...

Netskills offer regional training courses, documents and an online tutorial to help you use the Web:

http://www.netskills.ac.uk/

Media Websites...

BBC education: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education

The Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk

Electronic Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk

Guardian: http://guardian.co.uk/

Internet editions of The Times: http://www.the-times.co.uk/

The Sun: http://www.the-sun.co.uk

Sunday Times: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/

Times Educational Supplement: http://www.tes.co.uk

Times Higher Education Supplement: http://www.thes.co.uk/

The Times Educational Supplement: http://www.tes.co.uk

Searching the Web...

Search engines to use when you have identified some keywords/terms:

Google: http://www.google.co.uk

Alta Vista: http://www.altavista.com/

Yahoo: http://www.yahoo.com/

HOTBOT: http://www.hotbot.com

infoseek: http://infoseek.go.com/

Student Oragnisations...

Studentuk: http://www.studentuk.com/

"We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent." Dr. Maria Montessori