Bring Ancient Greece to life with Busy Things!
Busy Things has created a rich collection of engaging and educational activities to help you bring Ancient Greece to life in your classroom. Our blog investigates!
Key Stage 2 history: Teaching about the Romans
The Roman Empire was a fascinating civilisation, that quite rightly features within the Key Stage 2 history curriculum. In our blog, we look at some of comprehensive and well-researched activities on Busy Things that support the topic area.
Teaching grammar with Busy Things
Grammar is a key element of the National Curriculum for Literacy. In this blog, we highlight some of the key areas from ks1 and ks2 and give you a free activity to play so you can see how we address them.
Teaching Number and Place Value with Busy Things
Number and place value is one of the most important areas of the primary maths curriculum. In this blog, we highlight some of our activities to support its teaching.
Vikings
We’ve added some new Viking activities to our history section over the summer. In this blog, we discuss their contents and how they will really help your students understand what life was like under Danelaw.
Spotlight on English writing skills
With the latest KS2 SATs results highlighting writing as one of the areas most impacted by school closures, there is a lot of focus on these skills at present. We look at how Busy Things English activities can help.
NEW Phonics Screening Check Resources Maker!
Use our NEW Phonics Screener Resource Maker to create custom mock-tests and practice games at the push of a button!
Spotlight on our KS2 maths activities
There is a lot more to Busy Things’ Maths content than just games. This blog uncovers some of the maths activities and activity types available, focusing on KS2 maths.
The Clock Widget – An interactive clock to help children learn to tell the time
Our interactive clock widget is an exciting teaching tool to help children develop an understanding of the concept of time and to learn to tell the time in analog and digital formats. Perfect for use on an interactive whiteboard.
Life Cycle of a Frog Worksheet for primary school children
Encourage children to explore living things and their habitats by talking about, writing about and illustrating the life cycle of a frog.