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World Science Day and World Space Week

This month we celebrate two important events in science; World Science Day and World Space Week. On World Science Day, we’ll consider the advances made in recent years in science and think about what scientists may succeed at next. We’ll also look at how science has helped… Read More

KS1 Science – Where is Science at Work Around Us?

To many young children, science is an abstract subject, which is why it is included in the world around us topics at EYFS. When pupils get a little older, the concept of science can be introduced as a subject in which we find out about things in our world and… Read More

World Maths Day: 14th October 2015

World Maths Day is a fabulous way to celebrate the world of maths but there’ll be some for whom maths isn’t their favourite subject and a maths day may be their idea of torture. Planning World Maths Day to not just be a day of maths will help… Read More

KS1 Enrichment Games

In KS1 it’s imperative that we put maths into a practical perspective. Giving little ones maths in written form is too abstract and detaches them from the understanding of using maths in the real world. There are many ways to enrich KS1 maths with games and here we… Read More

Maths – Enrichment Games

Maths is fun to many anyway but you can make it even more fun and develop a deeper understanding of the processes involved by introducing more fun and practical activities. There are many ways to introduce fun activities and here, we share six of our favourites. Activity One: Function Steps… Read More

British Science Festival

This month we celebrate science through the British Science Festival and the focus this year is on science in our society. To help you participate, we’ve prepared two activities which we call ‘Big Science’, science which will tell us about our lives and where people live… Read More

English – The Women’s Institute

  © The National Federation of Women’s Institutes of England   A hundred years ago, when it finally dawned that the Great War wasn’t going to end as quickly as many had hoped, a group of women decided to do what they could to help the war effort. The… Read More

English – The Battle of Waterloo

© BBC Two hundred years ago in a field ten miles south of Brussels in Belgium, the decisive battle of the Waterloo Campaign took place between the French under Napoleon and the British led coalition under the Duke of Wellington and Blucher. It is arguably the best known battle… Read More

Maths – Monopoly

This February sees the 80th anniversary of the first time the game of Monopoly was seen on sale. It still remains one of the most popular board games across the world and has spawned many local versions. It’s one of the best games for combining luck with skill and logic… Read More

Science – Radar

Radar is the detection of objects using radio or sound waves which bounce back off an object in its path. Eighty years ago radar was first developed and six years later it helped to change the course of the Second World War and, in particular, helped the RAF win the… Read More