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Category: KS3
The Mathnasium Advantage – now brought to your home!
Your local maths specialists, Mathnasium, are pleased to announce the imminent delivery of [email protected]! [email protected] is the internet based[…]
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Isolation Ideas and Activities
During these unprecedented times, and with the kids off school for the foreseeable future, a lot of us are a[…]
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Bird Feeding Station
If you have a window that overlooks a garden it’s a great idea to put up a bird feeder. I[…]
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Getting Your Children Involved in Gardening – Bird Watching
If you’re an avid gardener, you may take pride pulling up weeds, planting seeds or choosing the right stylish bird[…]
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Your Own 12 Days of Christmas
A fun and simple idea that the whole family can do together. We all know the 12 days of Christmas[…]
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Learning Doesn’t Have To Be Boring: Educational Trips In London And Essex
They say that travel broadens the mind. It’s true, too, and we can all agree that a voyage away somewhere[…]
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Fizzy Science
Bonfire night is coming up and I thought it would be fun to look for some fizzy, whizzy science experiments[…]
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Bug Hotel
Arts and crafts for the garden? We turned a trip to the woods into a materials gathering treasure hunt for[…]
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Sporcle
My eldest son Felix loves facts. At least four times a day he will come and ask me “do you[…]
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Christmas Poems: Inside and Outside
A fun festive idea to get thinking about poetry and how using certain words can evoke a wintery, Christmassy feel.[…]
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Land Art
Last week I took my kids to an outdoor ‘Land Art’ session at Belfairs woods. To be honest I thought[…]
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Using Autumn leaves to learn about Photosynthesis
Most secondary school children, and many primary school children too, will have learnt about photosynthesis in class: if you need[…]
Read more365 Facts of the Day Calendar
This amazing interactive resource from www.projectbritain.com is like an advent calendar with an educational twist for each day of the year. Every[…]
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The Key Jar
My parents babysat a few weeks ago and my Mum played a game with them that she had seen someone[…]
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Minecraft Challenges
Like many parents, I have a computer game obsessed 7 year old and worry constantly about him getting too much[…]
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A Survey of Sovereigns
This poem from ‘The Complete School Verse’ is a great way of remembering the English monarchs in order. Admittedly it[…]
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Day out to the Natural History Museum
Great Adventure! The London National History Museum To be honest I wasn’t sure whether to take our two girls, who[…]
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