Tag: National Curriculum

Key Stage 2 History: Teaching about the Romans

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

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.

Vikings

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

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.