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...
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....
There are so many key dates and awareness days in the school year, it can be difficult to remember everything whilst keeping on top of the day-to-day tasks that inevitably take over once the school term has started. That’s why we’ve done the hard work for you and...
From Pharaohs and hieroglyphs to papyrus and scribes, the world of the Ancient Egyptians is full of brand new vocabulary for your class to enjoy. To help you and your KS1 or KS2 class keep on top of the key terms you’ll need when learning about the period,...
