Teaching special events and topics for October 2023

Take the stress out of the autumn term and keep your pupils fully engaged with these teaching events and topics for October 2024. At Busy Things for Schools, we’ve got an extensive selection of games and resources, including World Space Week and National Poetry Day that you can use to create seasonal lesson plans across a huge range of different subjects. Kids will really love drawing their own spooky monsters as part of our Halloween activities!

 

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British Food Fortnight

British Food Fortnight

20th September - 6th October 2024

Use our Yom Kippur writing templates, clip art and photographs to help your KS2 children create exciting topic work about the holiest day of the Jewish year. 

Walk to School Month

1st October - 31st October 2024

 Tally how your class get to school and make a graph on Busy Things.

The Big Draw

1st October - 31st October 2024

Busy Things is packed with creative tools, perfect to get children excited about drawing and art from a young age.

 

Harvest Festival

1st October 2024

Busy Things is packed full of Harvest festival primary resources!

 

Whether it's labelling fruit and vegetables, creating favourite food graphs or exploring where coco beans are grown around the world - there's plenty to choose from on Busy Things!

 

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Rosh Hashanah

Rosh Hashanah

2nd October 2024

Use our templates to write about the festival of Rosh Hashanah - to celebrate the Jewish New Year.

 

National Poetry Day

3rd October 2024

Why not use Busy Things on National Poetry Day? 

 

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World Animal Day

4th October 2024 

World Animal Day activities on Busy Things include an All About My Pet writing template with ready-made Clip art, photographs, paint and writing tools, and a graph template for the class to collect data on favourite animals and pets.

 

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World Space Week

4th October - 10th October 2024

There are plenty of World Space Week school activities on Busy Things. Ask your class to design a spaceship, write about a planet or label the solar system!

 

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Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur

11th October - 12th October 2024

Use our Yom Kippur writing templates, clip art and photographs to help your KS2 children create exciting topic work about the holiest day of the Jewish year.  

Sukkot

16th October - 23rd October 2024

Use our writing templates to write about the festival of Sukkot, also known as the Feast of Tabernacles.

 

World Food Day

16th October 2024

Busy Things is packed full of World Food Day activities! Whether it's labelling fruit and vegetables, creating favourite food graphs or exploring where coco beans are grown around the world - there's plenty to choose from on Busy Things!

 

 

Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah

23rd October - 24th October 2024

Use our templates to write about the Jewish festivals for Shemini Atzerat and Simchat Torah.

 

Halloween

31st October 2024

Ask your class to design a monster or try out our ready made templates and art and text tools to create some spooky topic work!

 

Busy Things also includes wicked witch colouring, pumpkin carving and a monster cup cake recipe!

 

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Autumn activities

September - December 2024

Why not write about Autumn as part of a weather project?

 

Busy Things includes plenty of activities to create a topic exploring the weather and the seasons.

 

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