Teaching special events and topics for October 2025

Take the stress out of the autumn term and keep your pupils fully engaged with these teaching events and topics for October 2025. 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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Autumn activities

September - December 2025

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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British Food Fortnight

British Food Fortnight

26th September - 12th October 2025

There are lots of food and drink-related resources on Busy Things to help you celebrate British food and drink!

 

Harvest Festival

1st October 2025

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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Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur

1st October - 2nd October 2025

 

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 2025

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

The Big Draw

1st October - 31st October 2025

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

 

National Poetry Day

3rd October 2025

Why not use Busy Things on National Poetry Day? 

 

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World Animal Day

4th October 2025

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 2025

 

 

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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Sukkot

6th October - 13th October 2025

 

 

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

 

Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah

13th October - 15th October 2025

 

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

 

World Food Day

16th October 2025

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!

 

 

Halloween

31st October 2025

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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