So here we are, approaching the end of half term 6!!??!!

APOLOGIES FOR A TWO WEEK GAP IN UPLOADING THESE, THIS WAS DUE TO A FAMILY BEREAVEMENT - THANKYOU TO ALL WHO ASKED WHERE IT WAS!

2026 continues with ever more testing, increasingly expensive, unpredictable, political and record-breaking emotional times we’ve seen recently with a variety of stories from around the world!

What a week once again -England are in the quarter finals, heat wave records, epic stadium agreement, PM resigns, transport crash, amazing bench, superhero movie, game pre-orders, you seem pretty sad for a girl…, World Cup goals record smashed, one band does stadium one off and another band apologises to fans!!! What’s all that about, then? Only one way to find out! The Neeeewwwwsss Quuuiiiizzzz! :)

New quiz uploaded each week of the term, ALL YEAR LONG! Over fifteen years now 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. :)