KS2

Children with Cancer UK, the national charity dedicated to research into childhood cancer, has partnered with Mister Men Ltd to launch a series of Mr Men themed challenges for primary schools across the country to raise funds for the charity. The challenges give students of all ages the opportunity to …

Maths Doctor, an award-winning live online tutoring company, is pleased to announce its Schools Programme Christmas Prize Draw, giving 10 schools across the UK the chance to win up to 100 one-to-one Maths lessons, worth over £3000 to be used however they wish. Schools are invited to enter the prize …

Calling all teachers and schools across the UK! From November 2015, FUZE Technologies Ltd is offering a limited number of FREE coding and electronics workshops for students aged seven to 18. The hour-long workshops, which must be booked by 31st December, will teach students essential computing skills, including hands-on coding …

The British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA) is an educational charity, home to five centuries of British social, communications and design history. In order to bring the remarkable stories contained within its archive to life for school children across the country it has created two FREE first class interactive learning …

Educational Software Company, 2Simple, are teaming up with children’s author, Jonny Zucker to run their first ever Serial Mash Writers Competition for users of the online library. With the chance of winning prizes, the competition starts by asking children to read the first chapter of two new KS2 Serial Mash …

Children aged 5-11 have been invited by children’s e-book publisher, Fiction Express for Schools to enter a short story competition in celebration of the company’s fourth birthday.   The competition, launched on 1st May in association with Primary Times, will run until 7th June. The children are required to write …

Children across the UK have been marking Chinese New Year with the help of a free learning resource sent to every primary school in the country during January and February. Produced by the British Council and supported by HSBC, the ‘Year of the Sheep’ education pack introduces pupils to the …

As handwriting re-joins the national curriculum this year, Cambridge University Press has teamed up with SATIPS for this year’s National Schools’ Handwriting Competition. From 1 September 2014, school students in the UK from the age of six have been required to learn how to hand-write letters and other documents. From …

Following the launch by Bloomsbury earlier in 2014 of the Let’s do Mental Maths apps for ages 6-7 and 10-11, the full set for the primary range is now available. Designed to improve children’s confidence in maths whether they are working in class with a teacher or at home with …

From January 2015, schools across the United Kingdom and Ireland will be able to perform their own productions of Disney’s award-winning musical The Lion King, when special versions of the show are released for licensing. These two versions, The Lion King KIDS and The Lion King JR will give pupils …