Holi the festival of Colours Activities and Information
Here are lots of videos which are suitable for a children’s assembly on Holi which is a Hindu celebration celebrating Spring
I was hunting around to find some eggsellent activities that the children could do online, designing cards and eggs.
Easter Egg Designer Game from www.primarygames.com
Decorate an Easter Egg at akidsheart.com
Make an Easter Egg www.abcya.com
Lots of Easter Egg printable Templates for you to print and colour in at home from www.firstpalette.com
Some lovely free Easter Clip Art from www.mycutegraphics.com/
Its nearly Mother’s Day UK so here is a list of links to free art and literacy based activities. There’s lots of ideas for games and crafts to make for Mum, so get out the PVA and Scissors and get crafting!
Crafts
10 Emergency Hand Made Mother’s Day Cards and Crafts from Buzzfeed
Lots of activities and many worksheets to print for free from Enchanted Learning!
Mother’s Day Resources FromActivity Village
More crafts and Activities from handsonaswegrow.com
Preschool Crafts from kidssoup.com
Mother’s Day PDF Downloads of cards, colouring and word games from www.studyladder.co.uk and www.kidsparkz.com
and some more activities from www.apples4theteacher.com
Grammar
Here are some Grammar Resources from ESOL Courses
Worksheets
Free Worksheets from dltk Holidays
Teachers Calendar March & April Teaching Ideas and Resources on this site.
1 March St Davids Day search this site for St Davids Day
Women’s History Month free resources form this site!
Free Frame Border for March with Daffodils
2 March Happy Birthday Doctor Seuss
2 March search this site for World Book Day Resources here: World Book Day 2017
8 March International Womens Day some links from this blog
13th March:Resources From Activity Village Holi and search this site for some great activities and videos to play in assembly here
17 March Lots of St Patricks Day Resources from this blog!
Iranian or Persian New Year will be on 20th March 2017.
Iranian New Year Nowuz
24 March 2017 Comic Relief official Site
20 – 26 March 2017 Shakespeare Week official Site
St Davids Day free resources link
26th March:Mother’s Day (UK) Resources From this site
April Free resources Links
April 1 April Fools Are you an April Fool?
16 April Easter Resources, Search my site for Easter Resources
Free Recycling Activities for Easter free resources link
10th – 18th April: Passover
14th April:Find out about this Punjab Festival from Activity Village Vaisakhi
21st April: The Queen’s Birthday (actual)
22nd April: Earth Day
23rd April: St George’s Day
23rd April Shakespeares’ Birthday search this site for some Shakespeare activities here
April 27 2017 Girls in ICT Day
Ramadam happens at the end of May this year here some Ramadam Resources from this site.
Teachers Calendar February & March Teaching Ideas and Resources on this site.
February is Bird Feeding Month
BBC Story Writing Competition 500 Words
7 February World E Safety Day search my site for E Safety Links
9-15 February Random Acts of Kindness Week Resources
7 February is Charles Dickens Birthday, have a look at the BBC History Charles Dickens site for lots of content on Charles Dickens, including videos, a biography section and information on Victorian London. Search my site for more Victorian themed links
10 February Happy National Umbrella Day, featuring umbrellas in Art and Film and some Art and Science links on the weather.
Valentines Day Valentines’s Simple Wordsearch Do it yourself Heart Seed Favours
Valentines Borders Valentines Free Heart Template Valentines Science Nerds
28 February Fat Tuesday/ Shrove Tuesday activities and crafts
Free Frame Border for March with Daffodils
2 March Happy Birthday Doctor Seuss
2 March search this site for World Book Day Resources here: World Book Day 2017
13th March:Resources From Activity Village Holi and search this site for some great activities and videos to play in assembly here
17 March Lots of St Patricks Day Resources from this blog!
Iranian or Persian New Year will be on 20th March 2017.
Iranian New Year Nowuz
24 March 2017 Comic Relief official Site
20 – 26 March 2017 Shakespeare Week official Site
St Davids Day free resources link
26th March: Mother’s Day (UK) Resources From Activity Village
April Free resources Links
April 1 April Fools Are you an April Fool?
16 April Easter Resources, Search my site for Easter Resources
Free Recycling Activities for Easter free resources link
10th – 18th April: Passover
14th April:Find out about this Punjab Festival from Activity Village Vaisakhi
21st April: The Queen’s Birthday (actual)
22nd April: Earth Day
23rd April: St George’s Day
23rd April Shakespeares’ Birthday search this site for some Shakespeare activities here
April 27 2017 Girls in ICT Day
Ramadam happens at the end of May this year here some Ramadam Resources from this site.
Pancake Day in the UK is also known as Shrove Tuesday, and is celebrated as Carnival and Mardi Gras elsewhere in the world. Next enjoyed on 28th February 2017, it was traditionally a day of fun and feasting before the fasting required during 40 days of Lent.
9 Things you didnt know about Mardi Gras
Pancake and Mardi Gras Activities from Activity Village
Mardi Gras Crafts from Dltk Kids.
Mardi Gras from http://www.kiddyhouse.com
Pancake and Mardi Gras Activities from kidsactivitiesblog.com
Carnival Resources
http://www.carnivalarchive.org.uk
Great article regarding the Year 6 Teaching of SATs from Michael Rosen:
“Yesterday, I put up a question that was in my son’s Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar homework for the holiday. It’s a photocopy of what looks like a previous or ‘mock’ test. For those who are not part of this nightmare, I’ll remind you it’s a test for Year 6 pupils who are 11 years old or nearly 11 years old.
By the way, you’ll see that people below, like me, don’t know the answer. Or, if we come up with an answer, we can also justify why there are two answers – according to the descriptions given in the government’s own ‘glossary’ on the ‘gov.uk’ site…. (Cont..)”
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