Got my daughter to write this review as she has been using it and is therefore better placed than me to sharer opinions.
We were given a year’s premium membership to www.twinkl.co.uk to try out with Bob, as
part of his home education. Having used
the site on and off for a month now, here are my initial thoughts.
Twinkl say “With over 65,000 Early Years, KS1 & KS2
resources, we're the one stop shop for all your teaching needs!”
They have lots of lovely materials and
resources, from playdough mats, posters, certificates, wristbands, through to
letter formation, topic packs, addition and subtraction activities, and many
many more. Most items are available to
print in either colour or black and white, or to order ready printed (for an
extra cost). All of the resources we
have used so far have been bright and colourful, and have gone down fairly well
with Bob.
Twinkl have two membership versions available, standard and
premium. Premium membership allows you
to download packs containing everything in a selected topic or set with one
click, which is much easier and quicker than downloading pages
individually. There are also a few
resources available only to premium members, but these seem to be few and far
between.
Searching through topics isn’t always easy, and often, there
are pages and pages of items to look through, and no way of breaking them down
any more. However, this seems to have
improved a little in the last month, with more subheadings. You can set the site to only show KS2
resources, KS1 and 2, or all resources, but I’m used to the Scottish school
system, meaning that KS’s really don’t mean a great deal!
On the whole, it’s a good website, with lovely resources,
but difficult to navigate, and, unfortunately for Twinkl, there are many other
sites doing almost the same thing for free.
However, for teachers or group leaders, the advantage of downloading
packs of resources with one click is well worth the membership fee, which is
something I haven’t seen anywhere else.
The review is are honest findings, not influenced by the fact it was free.
Twinkl is a great resource, I use it a lot in school and have logged on and printed out some things for The Boy as well.
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