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.
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.
Encourage children to explore living things and their habitats by talking about, writing about and illustrating the life cycle of a frog.
Help the Busy Things monster escape in our NEW time-telling game: Crunch Time
Do you look back on your favourite childhood toys and remember their cheery faces fixed with a broad grin? These days children’s toys are expressing a much wider range of emotions.
In June 2012 the Department for Education published draft Programmes of Study for primary English, maths and science.
Reflections on the debate of how ICT should figure in schools following our visit to the Rethinking ICT conference. Should the reform of ICT in schools start with a change of name?
We take a look at and highlight the key points of Professor Cathy Nutbrown’s interim report on her review of early education and childcare qualifications and career pathways.
“There are plenty of potential education policy time bombs primed to go off during 2012” We consider; Just how big is the problem? What is being done about it? What will it mean for parents, children and schools?
We consider the new ‘reading test’ that is being introduced into our Primary schools in June of this year. The test focuses solely on testing children’s phonic knowledge…