Bitesize

Bitesize is the BBC's free online study support resource for school-age pupils in the United Kingdom. It is designed to aid pupils in both schoolwork and, for older pupils, exams.[1]

Bitesize
A screenshot of the Bitesize homepage
Type of site
Free online study resource
Available inEnglish, Welsh and Gaelic
OwnerBBC
Created byBBC
URLhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
Launched1998
Current statusActive

National sections

England

The Key Stage 1, 2 and 3 along with GCSE section covers a range of subjects. In Key Stage 1, 17 subjects are available, including Art and Design, Computing, Design and Technology, English, Geography, History, Maths, Music, Physical Education, PSHE, Citizenship, Religious Education, Science, and Modern Foreign Languages.[2] The Key Stage 2 site covers 23 subjects,[3] Key Stage 3 section contains 33 subjects,[4] and the GCSE section contains 49 subjects across several exam boards.[5]

Scotland

Until 2014, the Standard Grade section of the site had 12 subjects: Biology, History, Chemistry, Computing Studies, Maths, English, Modern Studies (a course exclusive to Scotland), French, Physical Education, Geography, and Physics.[6] The site was updated in 2014 to replace the Standard Grade section with National 4 and National 5 sections. Gaelic versions of these were also made available.

Until 2014, in the Higher section, Biology, English, Geography, Maths, Chemistry, History, Modern Studies, Physics and the Scotland-only subject Scottish Gaelic were available. The Higher section was also updated to the new Curriculum for Excellence qualification. Early and 1st level, 2nd level, 3rd level, and 4th level resources were added to bring the site in line with the Curriculum for Excellence.

Wales

The CS3 and TGAU sections are in Welsh. Links to the English language sections are included.[7][8]

Northern Ireland

In 2014, a Northern Ireland section was added to the site. It solely contains links to the English language KS1/KS2/KS3/GCSE sections.[9]

gollark: > Isolating that elsewhere is also not good for various reasons I indicated before.
gollark: That could be solved with multiple off-topics.
gollark: You have to see *some small amount* of them, which is much more manageable.
gollark: Oh, NOW it pings me somehow?
gollark: You have a reasonable point that you can be nice to people inside a conversation but (possibly inadvertently) non-nice to those outside it. I think niceness within conversations is more important, as people outside them can more easily choose not to participate in them, but this doesn't work excellently. Banning discussion of anything some people do not like reading is *a* fix for some of this, but I don't like the tradeoffs, given the wide range of things in this category. Isolating that elsewhere is also not good for various reasons I indicated before. A generalized rule-4-y approach could end up doing basically the same thing as preemptively banning it, and people seem dissatisfied with "ignore the channel for a bit". Thus, I'm unsure of how the issue can be solved nicely and it's worth actually investigating the options.

See also

References
  1. Williams, Peter John (October 2007). "Valid Knowledge: The Economy and the Academy". Higher Education. 54 (4): 511–23. doi:10.1007/s10734-007-9051-y. JSTOR 29735128.
  2. "KS1 Section". BBC. 1970-01-01. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  3. "KS2 Section". BBC. 1970-01-01. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  4. "KS3 Section". BBC. 1970-01-01. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  5. "GCSE Section". BBC. 1970-01-01. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  6. "Standard Grade Bitesize". Bbc.co.uk. 1970-01-01. Retrieved 2012-06-28.
  7. "CA3 Section". BBC. 1970-01-01. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  8. "BBC Bitesize - TGAU". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-07-16.
  9. "BBC Bitesize - Home". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-07-16.
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