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TheSchoolRun.com closure date

As we informed you a few months ago, TheSchoolRun has had to make the difficult decision to close due to financial pressures and the company has now ceased trading. We had hoped to keep our content available through a partnership with another educational provider, but this provider has since withdrawn from the agreement.

As a result, we now have to permanently close TheSchoolRun.com. However, to give subscribers time to download any content they’d like to keep, we will keep the website open until 31st July 2025. After this date, the site will be taken down and there will be no further access to any resources. We strongly encourage you to download and save any resources you think you may want to use in the future.

In particular, we suggest downloading:

You should already have received 16 primary school eBooks (worth £108.84) to download and keep. If you haven’t received these, please contact us at [email protected] before 31st July 2025, and we will send them to you.

We are very sorry that there is no way to continue offering access to resources and sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused.

4 screen-free boredom-busting activities

100 Screen-free Ways to Beat Boredom
Why don't you put down that phone, turn off that tablet, switch off the television and do something less boring instead? Make a marshmallow catapult, create your own fingerprint kit, prepare a tornado in a bottle and amaze your friends with rainbow bubbles – just four of the electronics-free ideas in 100 Screen-free Ways to Beat Boredom!

It's all too easy for children (and adults!) to be captivated by digital delights – but screen-free stimulation is a low-cost, high-impact solution to "boring" free time, and promotes face-to-face interaction, family time and imaginative play.
 
In this extract from 100 Screen-free Ways to Beat Boredom (£9.99, QED Publishing) we suggest a few creative new activities for your child to try. Click on each image to download a printable page of instructions and "ingredients" for your screen-free fun.

Make a marshmallow catapult

Who wouldn't want to fling marshmallows? You could try to get a mini-marshmallow straight into a waiting mouth!

Create your own fingerprint kit

Put your sleuthing skills to the test with a DIY detective kit.

Make a tornado in a bottle

A tornado you can hold in your hand? Yes, really!

Blow rainbow-coloured bubble clouds

Why blow normal bubbles when you could create a rainbow bubble cloud instead? Here's how to do it.

More screen-free boredom-busting

The ideas above are extracted from 100 Screen-free Ways to Beat Boredom (£9.99, QED Publishing) by Kris Hirschmann and Elisa Paganelli.