The News Quiz 4th -11th January 2021 Form Tutor Time Current Affairs

The first quiz of 2021 with the chaos and disruption continuing our academic year ! Now in widescreen (it’s 2021, dude!). Most screens seem to be widescreen now, that’s really why!

What a week for education - as Gove says ‘schools are safe’ two days before Boris says ‘close the schools!’ and ‘cancel the exams!’ - a LadBaby Christmas number one, United go top, Mr Bean lends a surprisingly sensible voice to social media, Veganuary begins, America talks about UFOs, a silly US Space Force logo is unveiled and the number of virus cases hits an all time high- our year long journey continues into 2021- will it be the most unpredictable ever in education? Who can say? What will 2021 hold in store for us all?

New quiz uploaded each week of the term, ALL YEAR LONG! More than ten years and still going strong :) Many thanks to everyone who downloads this, it is very much appreciated and I’m glad it is useful for your form groups!

13 topical questions of the past week’s news, across the UK and the world.

Designed to be used as a 10-20 minute activity in formtime - you could make it a little longer by talking about and discussing some of the questions.

ANY MIS-SPELLINGS/MISSING CAPITALS ETC. IN THE PREVIEW ARE INTENTIONAL AND LINK TO THE LITERACY QUESTIONS IN THE REST OF THE QUIZ!

Powerpoint so can be used on a standard whiteboard.

Includes 2 literacy and 1 numeracy questions based on the other questions.

Works well as a form group activity in registration time - I give sweets to the winning team (we’re not supposed to give sweets out, so it’s a nice ‘naughty’ reward and makes (some of) them watch and check their apps about the news in the week. :)