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Inclusive Books for Children is a charity whose mission is to get mainstream children's books to be inclusive and to ensure inclusive children's books are widely available. They aspire to promote books with minority-ethnic representation, from content to creators. They review books based on this representation to champion as many inclusive and diverse titles as possible. On opening the website, it is pleasant to browse with easy to navigate functions. The pages are not too busy, and the menu is broken down into titles by age groups, from 1 to 3 years, 3 to 7 years, 5 to 7 years and 6 to 9 years. All of the books are bright and colorful which will appeal to young children and parents who love reading with their children.

Since Covid, when students were away from classrooms or directed learning for a considerable amount of time, schools have been making use of catchup funding which is awarded to help students raise their reading ages and attainment grades. This is so the achievement gap does not widen further between Pupil Premium (PP) and Special Educational Needs (SEN) students and the rest of their peers in secondary schools across the UK. Literacy seems to be one of the main focuses of OFSTED inspections currently, and there are many literacy programmes both online and offline which claim to advance reading ages in a relatively short space of time. Here, Khalil explores some of the digital options to measure and improve reading in UK schools.

Khalil reviews the Remus magazine, which is produced by the British Museum for their younger members to browse. It is online to read, and the articles reflect the exhibitions within the museum at the time of publication. It is published three times a year and has been in print since the 1990s. The page is easy to navigate, with the magazines set out in different time decades. Because they are published three times a year, they can be read seasonally, so the winter edition in 2020 has articles about the Antarctic and how to make an igloo or bake a wintery snowscape.

Khalil reviews The Stage Media Company LTD, available at www.youtube.com/@thestage; BBC Teach, available at www.youtube.com/@bbcteach and Horrible Histories (BBC), available at www.youtube.com/@HorribleHistoriesOfficial.

Khalil reviews three science-based YouTube site, namely BrainStorm, FuseSchool Global Education and The Science Break. BrainStorm has GCSE and key stage 3 educational videos on topics from the brain to food testing. The videos are generally under 30 minutes long and are very simply explained. FuseSchool shows immersive, high-quality videos, accessible for all learners in key stage 3, GCSE and A Level. It introduces secondary school science and maths curriculums by breaking the subjects into bite size chunks of manageable learning. On the other hand, The Science Break aimed at GCSE/key stage 3 science with all of the content based on the advanced exam information from exam boards. Almost all of the videos are less than 15 minutes long and cover topics like adaptation, food chains, pollution, and just about every subject students study for science from key stage 3 onwards.

There are many videos on the TED-ED YouTube channel which show how to engage with physics. There are videos such as 'What is Turbulence', 'The Hardest Move in Ballet', 'Newton's Laws with a Bicycle' and one Khalil found really interesting was 'Football Physics: The Impossible Free Kick'. This shows through animation how one of the most historic free kicks in football by player Roberto Carlos was achieved. It was a short three minute video but with a link underneath to take the browser to ed.ted.com/lessons, which shows the full lesson. There is a fascinating TED Talk on the channel titled 'Quantum Physics for 7 Year Olds' by physicist Dominic Walliman, and although it is 15 minutes long, she found to be very engaging. Walliman talks about understanding science through communication and how it is acceptable to admit you don't understand a subject so it can be explained more simply. He then goes on to explain quantum physics in a way that is easy to grasp, which for beginners, is a brilliant introduction to the topic.

Khalil reviews several websites, including Learn French with frenchpod101.com, an internet resource available at www.youtube.com/c/frenchpod101. Frenchpod.com is a website which guides learners through conversational French, from beginner to advanced, in a series of lessons. The YouTube channel of the same name streams lessons through videos which are broken down into sessions, such as French words and expressions, French speaking practice, and 720 French words for everyday life. Most of the videos are around 5-10 minutes in length.