Topical Tuesdays

Three Scottish brothers have rowed across the Atlantic Ocean in just 35 days, smashing three world records in the process. The MacLean brothers – E...

This week's big news was that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex released a statement saying they wanted to “step back as senior members of the royal f...

The 2020 New Year's Honours List was recently announced, with over a thousand people from various professions being celebrated.The list is chosen b...

Scientists in America have spent the last two decades cross-breeding a new variety of apple which, if kept in the fridge, will stay fresh for a yea...

A study by the National Literacy Trust has revealed that more than 380,000 children in the UK do not own a single book. The charity conducted a sur...

Two men have been jailed for stealing Viking treasure worth as much as £12 million. The detectorists (people who enjoy searching for objects using ...

You can't have failed to notice that on 19 November, Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson took part in the first live televised debate of the general el...

On 7 November heavy rain caused widespread flooding in parts of the UK, with at least one person having died, and 1,200 people have had to evacuate...

With this week's resource we're learning about scientists have observed two groups of long-tailed macaque monkeys in Thailand, Southeast Asia, usin...

This week's resource is based on a recent story of a 13th-century painting that fetched £20 million at auction. It was found in the home of an elde...

In this feature the focus is on the creation of new words and phrases and how they are added to the dictionary. The most recent version of the OED ...

This week we're taking a trip to K2-18b in search of aliens. Known as 'Super-Earth', K2-18b was recently discovered by scientists at University Col...

With this week's resource we're looking at the recent 50 year anniversary of the 50p coin. First introduced on 14 October 1969, it was the first se...

This week’s feature looks at perseverance versus giving up. Its main story is about Katarina Johnson-Thompson, the heptathlon athlete and her long ...

This week's feature is all about robots. A robotics company in Massachusetts, USA, called Boston Dynamics, has created 'the world's most dynamic hu...

This feature looks at the global climate change action that took place on the International Day of Peace, this 21 September. Your pupils will find ...

This lesson looks at organ donation and how it saves lives. Children will explore what each of the major organs do, and what happens to the body wh...

This resource explores at the devastating Amazon rainforest fires, as well as the protests that took place all over the world to ensure their prote...

This resource includes a news feature about a power cut that affected a million people in the UK, the biggest in a decade, as well as accompanying ...

In this lesson children look at the effect plastic bags have on animals in the ocean, exploring how these carrier bags can stay around for 1,000 ye...

With this resource, children will learn about Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai – an island that emerged from the sea just five years ago, and which scient...