The Nessy Learning Program screenshots

Before the main menu there's a short wait while the program loads

The main menu.<br>The user can either work through the lessons and occasional games bu clicking the 'Start Nessy' button or they can go straight to the games via the 'Games' button

The User Guide explains everything very clearly

The program comes with lots of .pdf files that contain lessons, progress sheets, and lots of information on how The Nessy Learning Program works

The Nessy Learning Program is divided into ten islands named after colours.

Clicking on an island, this is island one, opens a screen like this, the background colour matches with the island's name. Only the activities with a green joystick involve a game

Whenever there is a .pdf file associated with an activity it can be opened by The Nessy Learning Program

Wherever there's a green joystick on the activity menu that means there are one or more games to be played. This is the first screen seen, scrolling left/right accesses the games

Brain Drain: Title screen

Brain Drain: Instructions

Brain Drain: A game in progress. The style of the game resembles elements of 'Who Want's To be A Millionaire'

Chase The Chicken: Title screen

Chase The Chicken: Instructions

Chase The Chicken: A game in progress

Doggy Din Dins: Title screen

Doggy Din Dins: Instructions

Doggy Din Dins: There's a grammatical rule that determines whether the last letter doubles up when 'ing' is added to a word. The player applies that rule to decide which dog gets the bone

Glynn Goes Fishing: Title screen

Glynn Goes Fishing: Instructions

Glynn Goes Fishing: A game in progress. The fish in the panel on the right makes Glynn cast his line, the arrows reel it in/out. When a fish is hooked the player must spell a word to land the fish

Hands Off My Bananas: Title screen

Hands Off My Bananas: Instructions - these are in a different format to other games because this is a two stage game

Hands Off My Bananas: A game in progress. In this phase of the game the player answers questions to try and win as many coconuts as possible

Hands Off My Bananas: The end of the first phase of the game.

Hands Off My Bananas: The second phase of the game where the monkey gets to throw coconuts at the gorillas and thus defend his bananas.

House Of Fear: Title screen

House Of Fear: Instructions

House Of fear: A Game in progress. The player selects the correct word to complete the short sentence, this takes them through the door to the next room. The footprints indicate player progress

Monster Words: Title screen

Monster Words: This game is used for difficult word groups, in this case words with the letter group -'ough'

Monster Words: The player has heard all the sounds the letters 'ough' can make. They are now shown a word and must select the sound the 'ough' letters make from the seven options

Norman and his Horse: An interactive story. At the end of the story there are questions

Poke The Pig: Title screen

Poke The Pig: Instructions

Poke The Pig: A game in progress

Poke The Pig: Every game has a score sheet, this is the one for Poke The Pig

Power Protectors: The title screen

Power Protectors: This game is used for specific grammatical rules,

Power Protectors: This game is used for specific grammatical rules, this shows how a rule is explained

Power Protectors: The player hears a word and, hopefully, adds the correct ending. When the monster rushes from the cave they will be foiled if the correct answer has been supplied