Chinese New Year 2025 - year of the snake

Resources to support teaching and learning about the Chinese New Year 2025, the year of the snake, which starts on 29 January 2025 and lasts until 16 Febrary 2026. The date changes every year as it's decided by the Chinese lunar calendar, which is based on the cycles of the moon and sun and is generally 21–51 days behind the Gregorian (internationally-used) calendar. 

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Creating Chinese calligraphy

This is one of a set of resources from the IET that uses the theme of the lunar new year to reinforce basic maths skills through the use of Chinese calligraphy. The activity is aimed at key stage 3 pupils with low levels of attainment.

Pupils learn about and make use of Chinese calligraphy. They will learn...

Safety Snakes Activity

This online safety activity gives pupils the opportunity to practice their coding skills and refresh their knowledge of online safety whilst enjoying a game of snakes and ladders. The activity challenges pupils to create the correct algorithm and program to ensure their Bee-Bot moves around the mat to the...

Subtraction snakes

A ‘subtraction snake’ is presented, the rule to find the next number in the snake is to find the difference of the two numbers that come before it. Some questions are posed about starting numbers and end results in work on Highest Common Factors. This resource is suitable for Key Stage 3.

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Flying dragon

This activity provides pupils with the opportunity to explore the overlap between art and engineering. Pupils can work individually or as part of a team to design and build a moving model of a flying dragon. Pupils will learn what a crank is and how they work, how to measure the forces of a crank and how to build...

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