Special Occasions

Find the words from Happy New Year!

Looking back and reflecting on the past year.

Looking forward to the next year.

Starters for writing sentences in the future tense.

Writing things you are going to do and not going to do in the next year.

Making resolutions for the new year and looking back at the past year.

Resolutions in detail.

Simple comprehension on The Chinese New Year, suitable for KS1/Lower KS2.

Comprehension on The Chinese New Year, suitable for Lower KS2.

Comprehension on The Chinese New Year, suitable for Upper KS2.

Print and make a Chinese Lantern.

Decorate your own Chinese Lantern 1.

Decorate your own Chinese Lantern 2.

Describe your favourite book and its setting.

Dressing up for World Book Day? Describe your costume, with illustrations.

Carry out research on a favourite author.

Choose a character and answer questions.

Recommend favourite books and authors.

Choose a favourite book and design a cover.

Activities to do in a library.

Handy bookmarks for World Book Day.

The Patron Saint of Wales: St David.

Patron Saint of Scotland: St Andrew.

Patron Saint of Ireland: St Patrick.

Writing activity for Mother's Day.

Straightforward comprehension about Mother's Day.

Writing activity for Mother's Day.

Write a news report about the best mum in the world.

Writing activity for Mother's Day.

Writing activity for Mother's Day.

Information about Ramadan.

More information about Ramadan.

More detailed information about Ramadan.

Ideas for making decorations.

Information about Hajj, a great pilgrimage to Mecca.

More detailed information and comprehension about Hajj.

Information and comprehension about The Ka'bah.

More detailed information and comprehension about The Ka'bah.

Information and comprehension about a mahmal.

Information about the Jewish Festival, Hanukkah.

Celebrate Hanukkah by decorating one candle each day.

More info. about the origins of St. Valentine's Day, with comprehension questions.

Finding words hidden in the word Valentine. Some easy, some hard!

The story of Easter Eggs for younger children.

The history of Easter Eggs.

The history of Easter Eggs (harder).

Easter traditions comprehension for KS1.

Easter traditions comprehension for lower KS2.

Easter traditions comprehension for upper KS2.

Reorder the instructions on how to make an Easter Egg, then try it out!

Decorate the Easter Eggs.

Template for writing about 'My dad'.

Writing template for what a dad does.

Template for writing about 'My dad'.

Another template for writing about 'My dad'.

Template for writing about doing things for Dad.

Template for writing an acrostic poem about Father's Day.

A short comprehension on the origin of Father's Day.

Fun Halloween activities and vocabulary to help with writing stories.

Information about the origins of Halloween.

Part of Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 1 with the cauldron bubbling!

Vocabulary and writing activities linked to November 5th.

A detailed account of the Gunpowder Plot with questions which make a good summary of the story.

Picture clues for a Christmas crossword.

Another Christmas crossword: same answers but word clues rather than pictures.

Muddled letters to make Christmas words, with plenty of illustrations to complete.

More muddled up Christmas words.

Make Christmas words by joining the two parts.

Words to make from the letters of CHRISTMAS TREE. clues given, but there may be more than one possible answer.

More words to make from the letters of CHRISTMAS TREE.

Some of these Christmas clues are quite tricky, but the letters can all be found in CHRISTMAS TREE.

Even more Christmas words to find from the clues: you can get addicted to these!

Missing words: Once in Royal David's City.

Find the missing words in Deck the Hall with Boughs of Holly.

Ordering sentences with a Christmas theme.

A cloze procedure with a Christmas theme.

More about the ancient celebration of May Day.

Tricky description of how a tennis match is scored, with missing words.