Learn to tell time: Play our NEW game Crunch Time!
Help the Busy Things monster escape in our NEW time-telling game: Crunch Time
Teaching Children How to Tell the Time: Hints and Tips
Learning how to tell the time can be a tricky business so we’ve pulled together some hints and tips on how you can support your child to learn this essential skill.
Bake a Funny Face: Fun Recipes To Make With Children
It’s Red Nose Day on Friday 13th March! If you’re having a bake sale, our Busy Things cupcakes and pizzas are fun recipes to make with children!
The Changing Faces of Children’s Characters Over 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.
Primary Curriculum: The Shape Of Things To Come
In June 2012 the Department for Education published draft Programmes of Study for primary English, maths and science.
e-society update: what are the digital natives up to?
Here we pull out the findings of Ofcom’s latest report to throw light on the way children are using digital communications technologies, in particular the rise of the tablet.
#Rethinking ICT in schools: what’s in a name?
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?
e-society; digital technology and children’s media literacy
Some interesting findings relating to the use of digital technology in homes and in schools and children’s media literacy.
The Nutbrown review of early education and childcare qualifications
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.
Latest Changes to busythings Explained!
Some of you may be wondering why the busythings interface has had a significant makeover, so I thought I would use our Blog to explain what’s been going on. We are bursting with ideas on how to ‘grow’ busythings and so we need to fit more on the Main Menu in preparation for this. Rather …