Due to school closures across the world, Twinkl wanted to create a range of simple, easy-to-use materials that would allow anybody to teach children effectively. General knowledge quiz questions: Can you guess what year these important historical events took place? If it feels like we are living through history, it’s because we are - and this is your chance to help us record it. Using activities themed around your child's interests, such as dinosaurs, is one way of catching a child's interest in an activity. Calling all parents. Stop what you’re doing. Put down the wine glass. Step away from the school books. Quit pretending you can’t hear the children squabbling. We need your brains. Right here. Right now.

20 dinosaur quiz questions to test your fossil-mad friends 20 dinosaur quiz questions to test your fossil-mad friends

From colour by numbers sheets to aid number recognition, to addition and subtraction calculations, there's plenty to motivate your little dinosaur fan and help support their maths skills too. Can parents use these resources with their children? Mary Anning is famous for being a largely self-taught fossil hunter. She was born in Victorian times and grew up on the Jurassic coast in Dorset, where she hunted for and sold fossils to support her family after her father died.