learnwithgames/uk-primary-curriculum-learning-games

learnwith.games primary curriculum game catalogue

A metadata catalogue of the 216 free online learning games on learnwith.games, a free learning-games site for children aged 4–11 in England. It's built by Omer Celik, an independent UK maker. Each row is one game. It records the subject, the school year, the curriculum topic group, the game title and the statutory curriculum statement the game practises. That's a National Curriculum in England statement for Years 1–6 and an EYFS Early Learning Goal for Reception. Each row also gives the game type, whether a free printable exists, and the public page URL.

The dataset contains metadata only. It does not include the games, questions, artwork or printables.

Contents

	Count
Games (rows)	216
Subjects	Maths 92, English 72, Science 14, Geography 11, History 9, Computing 7, Languages 11 (French 7, Spanish 4)
Stages	Reception 19, Year 1 34, Year 2 31, Year 3 33, Year 4 33, Year 5 35, Year 6 31
Rows quoting a single curriculum statement	159 (19 EYFS, 140 National Curriculum)
Rows aligned at strand level only	57 (English collection games; see below)
Games with a free printable game and worksheet	159
Game types	Match the pairs 75, Sort it out 48, Quiz race 34, Put in order 16, Timeline 9, Fact sprint 8, Balance the scales 6, Word builder 5, Number line 4, Label the picture 4, Jigby code 3, Phonics tiles 3, Story mystery 1

Files:

• data.csv: UTF-8 CSV with a header row and 216 rows.
• data.jsonl: the same 216 rows as JSON Lines, with native booleans and integers.

Fields

Field	Type	Description
id	string	Permanent game id (the site slug). Stable over time.
subject	string	Maths, English, Science, Geography, History, Computing or Languages.
language	string	french or spanish for Languages games, otherwise empty.
stage	string	Reception or Year 1 … Year 6 (school years in England).
year_number	int	0 for Reception, 1–6 for Years 1–6.
key_stage	string	EYFS, KS1, LKS2 (lower KS2, Years 3–4) or UKS2 (upper KS2, Years 5–6).
ages	string	Typical age range for the stage, e.g. 7-8.
curriculum_framework	string	National Curriculum in England or EYFS statutory framework (England).
topic_group	string	The curriculum's own heading for the statement (e.g. Number – multiplication and division, Statistics, Word Reading). For strand-level rows, the site's strand name. History, computing and languages programmes have only one heading, Subject content, so use strand for those.
strand	string	The site's navigation strand (e.g. Number, Fractions, Reading comprehension).
topic_title	string	Game title as shown on the site.
curriculum_statement	string	The statutory statement the game practises, quoted word for word from the DfE source text. It's empty for strand-level rows.
statement_scope	string	year when the statement belongs to that year's programme. key stage 2 (whole key stage) when the statutory text is set for the key stage as a whole (Languages). Empty for strand-level rows.
alignment_level	string	statement (one quoted statement) or strand (aligned to a strand of the English programme of study, not to a single statement).
game_type	string	The game format shown to players (e.g. Sort it out, Match the pairs, Timeline).
engine	string	Internal engine id behind game_type.
description	string	One-sentence description of the game from the site.
has_free_printable	bool	True if a free printable game and worksheet with answers exists.
page_url	string	Canonical public URL of the game page.
printable_url	string	Public URL of the free printable page, or empty.

How it was made

The rows were exported on 27 October 2026 from the site's own data model. Each game is stored once and placed against England curriculum statements. The export was joined with the public "Find a game" index on learnwith.games. Every page_url and printable_url returned HTTP 200 when exported. The site's automated test suite checks that every quoted statement appears word for word in the DfE source texts.

English collection games (57 rows). Many English games are grouped in themed collections, for example phonics, handwriting and sentences. These are aligned to a strand of the English programme of study, such as Word reading, Composition or Spoken language, rather than to one statement. alignment_level marks them as strand and curriculum_statement is empty. Their topic_group is the strand name.

Reception. Reception is the final year of the Early Years Foundation Stage, so Reception rows cite EYFS Early Learning Goals, not the National Curriculum.

Intended uses

• Mapping or searching free practice games by curriculum statement, year or subject.
• Building curriculum-aware recommenders or lesson-planning tools for primary education in England.
• A small labelled set for text classification, e.g. predicting subject, stage or topic_group from a title, description or statement.

Limitations:

• Placements are the maker's editorial choices. They haven't been reviewed by an independent teacher panel.
• The games give practice in selected skills. They don't cover or assess whole programmes of study.
• Schools may teach a topic in a different year, because programmes only need to be covered by the end of each key stage.
• The site also has a US section, but this dataset covers the England placements only.

Licence and attribution

The metadata in this dataset is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Please credit it as: "learnwith.games curriculum game catalogue, by Omer Celik, https://learnwith.games, CC BY 4.0".

Curriculum text is under a different licence. The text in curriculum_statement and the curriculum headings in topic_group are quoted from Department for Education publications. They are © Crown copyright, reproduced under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and are not covered by CC BY 4.0:

• National curriculum in England: primary programmes of study (mathematics, English, science, geography, history, computing and languages), Department for Education, 2013, with later updates: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum
• Early years foundation stage statutory framework for group and school-based providers, Department for Education: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/early-years-foundation-stage-framework--2

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

The Department for Education does not endorse this dataset or learnwith.games.

Not licensed: CC BY 4.0 covers only the metadata in these files. It does not cover the learnwith.games games, game code, question banks, artwork, the Jigby mascot, the learnwith.games name and logo, the free printables or the paid printable packs. All of those remain © learnwith.games, all rights reserved. Use them on the site under its own terms: https://learnwith.games/terms/

Source

• Website: https://learnwith.games
• Find a game (browse and search all games): https://learnwith.games/games/
• Contact: hello@learnwith.games

Citation

@misc{learnwithgames_catalogue_2026,
  title  = {learnwith.games primary curriculum game catalogue (England, Reception to Year 6)},
  author = {Celik, Omer},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://learnwith.games},
  note   = {Metadata CC BY 4.0; curriculum text Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0}
}