Slime making may be one of the messier activities you’ll get up in the classroom – but it’s also one of the most fun. It’s not just the making that will excite your class either. Once it has been made, the slime can be used for a whole host of...
National Picnic Week: Outdoor crafting activities We’re celebrating National Picnic Week (19th – 27th June) with some exciting outdoor crafting activities. Picnics are one of the joys of sunny days and give children the chance to have fun outdoors…in addition to a...
What colour pen do you use for marking? It’s surely one of the most hotly debated topics passing through staff rooms, seemingly without consensus. To try and make sense of it, we threw the discussion over to 134 teachers on Twitter. In this post, we’ll reveal what...
The river Nile will no doubt form a large part of your term teaching Ancient Egypt to a KS1 or KS2 class. The foundation of the entire civilization, it’s vitally important to learn about how the river allowed their societies to function. Something which can be...
Lasting over 30 centuries, the Ancient Egyptian civilization is one of the most vastly enriching periods of history of them all. For teachers, that leaves so much potential for your engaging your class, but it can also leave them confused as to where it all fits in....