This powerpoint goes over the key teaching points about Chinese New Year and the different traditions involved in it. It then explains the Chinese Zodiac and allows the children to see which animal they are. It then goes on to explain the characteristics of someone from the Year of the Dragon. At the end there are examples of different tasks the learners could complete. These could set or learners could be allowed to choose. You could also complete these as a series of rotational stations.

This is a great resource for helping pupils to reflect on 2023 and also set targets and goals for 2024. These can be school related goals or personal goals. It uses simple child friendly language with sentence prompts like I hope that… I want to… My goal is… I want to… Pupils can then colour and cut this out and it makes a lovely display. Tip - add a photo of the child to the balloon to make it more personalised.

This resources contains 7 short quizzes which can be used as short starters or completed as a large quiz. The different quizzes it contains are: Christmas Film Characters (contains characters from modern and older films) Christmas anagrams Christmas Surveys (Similar to family fueds - pupils have to pick what they think the most popular answer is) Christmas song lyrics - pupils have to name the song the lyrics come from. Christmas Around the World - a challenging trivia quiz about Christmas traditions around the world. This could be simplified by giving pupils multiple choice. Merry Christmas in Different languages - pupils have to match the greeting to the language it is written in. Christmas True or False - a short T or F quiz I have also included an answer sheet if this required. It is marked out of 88 and allows pupils to keep track of their scores as they go and they can add totals up at the end.

Visual timetable cards. Designed in pastel colours.

This resource contains a variety of resources relating to the World Cup 2022 in Qatar. The activities link to a range of curricular areas. The activities included are: Class sweepstake - This includes a link to randomiser so the countries can be randomly allocated to pupils. Name the flag quiz World Cup in numbers - estimation quiz Design a football strip - relates to the country that pupils got from sweep stake. It also has printable template. Who will win the world cup survey - Takes the pupils through the process of a survey. Pupils must collect info in a tally chart then create a graph of their choice to present their information. County fact file - again this relates to their sweep stake country. The activity gives a modelled fact file. World Cup debate - Should the World Cup have been held in Qatar. Pupils must gather evidence for both sides of the debate then argue one side of it during a class debate.

This resource briefly explains what the Feast of the Epiphany then it goes on to look at how it is celebrated in different countries. There is a short quiz at the end that could be completed written or verbally. There is also a short follow up task about researching another country and their traditions. This would require ICT.