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Activities for Year 1

KS1 🔄 8 min
Maths · Position, direction, and movement

Bobo's Turning Shapes Adventure

Help Bobo spin shapes around! Spot quarter and half turns, complete spinning patterns, and finish a shape picture by choosing the right turn.

KS1 🧁 10 min
Maths · Reasoning

Bobo's Bakery Maths Challenge

Help Bobo run a busy bakery! Solve a mix of place value, shape, money, fractions, and word problems to earn stars.

KS1 🌟 8 min
Maths · Addition within 20

Bobo's Starlight Observatory: Adding to 20

Light up the night sky! Solve glittering addition questions to make stars glow and reveal a hidden constellation.

KS1 🧙 10 min
Maths · Addition within 100

Gnomeo's Garden Adding Adventure

Help Gnomeo the gnome add up his pebble collections! Build your own two-digit sums, drag tens and ones into the pot, and discover three different totals in your magic notebook.

KS1 🐿️ 8 min
Maths · Addition and subtraction fact families

Squirrels' Treehouse Number Triangles

Help two squirrel friends in their treehouse build number triangles and discover how three numbers make four addition and subtraction facts!

KS1 🦜 10 min
Maths · Addition and subtraction fact families

Polly's Pirate Fact Family Treasure

Sail with Polly the parrot and unlock treasure chests by finding addition and subtraction fact families to 20!

KS1 🦔 8 min
Maths · 3D shapes

Hazel's Magic Garden Shape Hunt

Join Hazel the hedgehog gardener to spot 3D shapes hiding in a magical garden — match objects like balls, plant pots and gnome hats to the right shape names!

KS1 🏘️ 8 min
Maths · 3D shapes

Build Blox Town with 3D Shapes

Become the architect of Blox Town! Stamp cubes, cuboids, spheres, cylinders, cones and pyramids to build your very own town, then complete three shape challenges from the mayor.

KS1 🔍 8 min
Maths · 2D shapes

Bobo's Shape Detective: The Missing Museum Mystery

Help detective Bobo solve the mystery of the missing shapes! Use clues to identify circles, squares, rectangles and triangles, then return them all to the museum wall.

KS1 🎂 8 min
Maths · 2D shapes

Bella's Bakery: Shape Cakes!

Help baker Bella decorate cakes and fill orders by spotting circles, squares, rectangles and triangles in her cosy bakery!

KS1 🏗️ 8 min
Maths · 2D shapes

Builder Bob's Shape House

Help Builder Bob construct a house using 2D shapes! Learn shape names, sides, and corners as you drag, drop, and build your own creation.

KS1 ⛰️ 9 min
Maths · Counting forwards and backwards

Bobo's Mountain Counting Hike

Help a hiker climb to the summit and back by filling missing numbers, choosing what comes next when counting back, and sorting tiles into a mountain sequence — practising counting forwards and backwards across tens up to 100.

KS1 🔬 8 min
Science · Animal survival and basic needs

Zara's Animal Lab: What Animals Need

Join Zara the young scientist in her lab! Sort animal scenarios, diagnose what's missing, and rescue animals by giving them the food, water, air, or shelter they need.

KS1 🦔 5 min
Science · Animal survival and basic needs

Hetty the Hedgehog's Garden Adventure

Help Hetty the hedgehog find food, water, air and shelter in a cosy garden at dusk. Tap, drag and explore to discover what animals need to survive!

KS1 🌻 8 min
Science · Animal survival and basic needs

Glen's Garden Food Chains

Help Glen the garden gnome build food chains by dragging plants and animals into the right order on conveyor belts.

KS1 🔧 8 min
Science · Uses of everyday materials

Bobo's Material Workshop

Help Inventor Bobo test five everyday materials! Squash, stretch, bend, and twist clay, rubber, sponge, paper, and metal to discover what each can do.

KS1 🧸 8 min
Science · Uses of everyday materials

Dress Teddy for the Rain

Help Teddy stay dry! Drag the right waterproof materials onto Teddy for a rainy day walk and learn which materials keep water out.

KS1 🔥 8 min
History · The Great Fire of London

Bobo's Great Fire of London Tower Watch

Be a fire watcher in 1666! Read the comic of the Great Fire, pack an emergency bag, and answer quiz questions to light the lanterns on your tower.

KS1 🏛️ 8 min
History · The Great Fire of London

Rebuild London with Clara!

After the Great Fire of 1666, help architect Clara rebuild London street by street using safer brick and stone instead of wood.

KS1 🎆 7 min
History · Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot

Bobo's Gunpowder Plot Timeline

Help the historian sort five muddled event cards into the right order along a timeline to tell the story of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot.

KS1 🕯️ 8 min
History · Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot

Bobo and the Gunpowder Plot Mystery

Help King James I solve the Gunpowder Plot! Read the secret warning letter, sort plotters from heroes, fill in the story, and answer royal questions.

KS1 🧁 8 min
Maths · Number bonds to 20

Bobo's Bakery: Number Bonds to 20

Help Baker Bobo fill cake trays to exactly 20! Practise number bonds to 20 with quick-fire questions and a speedy oven round.

KS1 🐉 9 min
English · Phonics and decoding words

Dragon's Cave: The Magic Silent E

Help a friendly dragon unlock treasure by adding the magic silent 'e' to words. Learn split digraphs (a-e, i-e, o-e, u-e) through dragging gems, choosing spellings, and sorting words.

KS1 🥧 8 min
Maths · Fractions: thirds and three-quarters

Baker Benny's Fraction Bakery

Help Baker Benny cut cakes, brownies and pies into thirds and quarters! Slice the bakes and shade the right fraction to fill every order.

KS1 📮 10 min
English · Phonics and decoding words

Bobo's Post Office: Word Parcels

Help Bobo the postmaster fix the scrambled words on parcels by dragging the missing letter sound into each gap. Deliver all the parcels!

KS1 📖 8 min
English · Phonics and decoding words

Bobo's Story-Making Machine

Build silly sentences in a retro printing-press machine! Drag word tiles into slots, pull the lever, and print your own story book using Phase 4 and 5 phonics.

KS1 🚀 8 min
Maths · Number bonds to 20

Bobo's Rocket Fuel: Number Bonds to 20

Help Bobo the astronaut launch rockets by pairing fuel canisters that add up to 20! Drag, drop, and blast off into space.

KS1 🌻 8 min
Maths · Fractions: thirds and three-quarters

Bobo's Fraction Garden: Thirds and Quarters

Plant a sunny allotment in thirds or quarters! Drag plants into garden patches and watch the fractions appear in real time.

KS1 ✏️ 8 min
Maths · Tally Charts

Bobo's Tally Chart Café

Help Bobo run a busy café! Make tally marks, group them in fives, and read tally charts to find favourites.

KS1 📊 6 min
Maths · Bar Charts

Bobo's Bar Chart Adventure

Build a zoo bar chart by dragging animals into colour bars, then read it like a pro!

KS1 🌻 6 min
Maths · Pictograms

Bobo's Pictogram Garden

Plant a flower garden and learn how each picture stands for one thing.