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Important update from TheSchoolRun

For the past 13 years, TheSchoolRun has been run by a small team of mums working from home, dedicated to providing quality educational resources to primary school parents. Unfortunately, rising supplier costs and falling revenue have made it impossible for us to continue operating, and we’ve had to make the difficult decision to close. The good news: We’ve arranged for another educational provider to take over many of our resources. These will be hosted on a new portal, where the content will be updated and expanded to support your child’s learning.

What this means for subscribers:

  • Your subscription is still active, and for now, you can keep using the website as normal — just log in with your usual details to access all our articles and resources*.
  • In a few months, all resources will move to the new portal. You’ll continue to have access there until your subscription ends. We’ll send you full details nearer the time.
  • As a thank you for your support, we’ll also be sending you 16 primary school eBooks (worth £108.84) to download and keep.

A few changes to be aware of:

  • The Learning Journey weekly email has ended, but your child’s plan will still be updated on your dashboard each Monday. Just log in to see the recommended worksheets.
  • The 11+ weekly emails have now ended. We sent you all the remaining emails in the series at the end of March — please check your inbox (and spam folder) if you haven’t seen them. You can also follow the full programme here: 11+ Learning Journey.

If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected]. Thank you for being part of our journey it’s been a privilege to support your family’s learning.

*If you need to reset your password, it will still work as usual. Please check your spam folder if the reset email doesn’t appear in your inbox.

Welcome to the Homework Gnome!

Help with primary school history, geography, science and RS homework

TheSchoolRun Homework Gnome

Looking for child-friendly homework and project help for primary-school children? Meet the Homework Gnome! This free resource covers the most common curriculum topics and offers information, resources and links to further learning.

From essential information to weird (but true!) facts, picture galleries, videos and more, TheSchoolRun’s Homework Gnome offers your child a fantastic launching pad for learning about the history, geography and science topics they’re covering in school.

Each national-curriculum area has been researched and presented in child-friendly language to help your child with homework projects and at-home research.

Find out more about our homework project helper

Need more resources or want to explore the topic further? We’ve also packed each page with links to relevant images, educational films and age-appropriate interactive games – so why not make a strategic plan to fight the Battle of Hastings, assemble a human skeleton or write Chinese characters?

We add new topics to the Project Explorer on a regular basis, so come back soon!

Please note: the Project Explorer features a number of links to external websites, chosen for their editorial relevance of the topics and suitability for children. External links are selected and reviewed when the page is published, but TheSchoolRun cannot be responsible for the content of external websites. For more details see our Terms and conditions.

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