BUZZ! The Schools Quiz combines a BAFTA award winning quiz format and playability of previous BUZZ! titles with bespoke Key Stage 2 National Curriculum content to create a game specifically tailored for educational use in primary and special needs schools.
 Launch in UK education:
October 2007 - Product testing in specific schools
October 2007 onwards - Pre-orders taken
January 2008 - UK educational launch @ BETT 2008
£34.00 ex VAT - 4 buzzer unit
£114.99 ex VAT - 4 buzzer unit with PS2
BUZZ!The Schools Quiz will use 5,000 unique questions based directly on all areas of the Key Stage 2 National Curriculum written and edited by SchoolZone.
The questions have been scripted into 4 levels of difficulty by teachers to match Years 3, 4, 5 and 6. Key curriculum areas include:
• English: Adverbs, Alphabetical Order, Definitions, Nouns, Prepositions, Punctuation, Spelling, Syllables and Tenses
• Maths: Approximation, Averages, Fractions and Probability, Mental Arithmetic, Multiple and Factors, Negative Numbers, Number Comparison, Number Places, Number Sequence and Time
• Science: Electronics and Electricity, Forces, Human Life, Light and Sound, Materials, Plants, Sorting Living Things, the Environment and the Planets
• History: Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, the Romans, Tudor England, Victorian England, Vikings and Anglo Saxons and World War II
• RE: Customs, Stories, Symbols
• Geography: Mountains, the Coastline, the World, Towns, Transport, Water and Weather
• Modern Foreign Languages: French and Spanish
 BUZZ! Teacher information
Teachers can tailor a Quiz by selecting their own version from one subject area or any part of the National Curriculum; save a quiz by setting up in advance of a lesson, saving and reusing at any time; stop the game to allow classroom discussion, speeding up or slowing down the quiz to enhance classroom management.
By sharing the 4 included buzzers between teams a full class set can play at any one time.
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