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.
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Best time-teaching products
Wooden Shape Sorting Clock
£12.99, Melissa & Doug
A colourful wooden shape-sorting clock which helps younger children familiarise themselves with the clock face. The hour and minute hands are adjustable so you can demonstrate different times for your child.
Timing it right
£20, Learning Resources
A brilliant game to build on time-telling and estimating skills, featuring real-life elapsed time scenarios. The first player to advance around the clock face game board wins! For 2-4 players at KS2 level.
Teach your child to tell the time!
- Telling the time pack
- Step-by-step programme
- Worksheets and tutorials
Aramazu
£5.99, Aramazu
When all their time is stolen by a giant and all their money is taken by an evil Princess, the people of Aramazu have to start to learn to tell the time. To make it easier they use the Aramazu Mountain Clock so everyone can understand where Time is on the clock face. Following these three short illustrated stories a young child will learn how to tell the time, just like the people of Aramazu.
Happy Puzzle Amazing Clock Kit
£14.99, The Happy Puzzle Company
Help your child practise their clock-reading skills and understand how a clock actually works at the same time. Both sides of this wind-up clock are transparent, so your child will be able to see how the swinging pendulum causes the different cogs and springs to rotate, move, turn the hands of the clock and make the bell chime. Suitable for children aged 5 to 15.
Tell the time Lotto
£8, Orchard Toys
A telling the time lotto to help develop skills with analogue and digital times. Younger children can use the pictures to help them play against older, clock-reading siblings. Suitable for 2-4 players at KS1 and KS2 level.
My Calendar
£43.99, Fiesta Crafts
Help your EYFS child get to grips with days, dates, months and seasons with this beautiful fabric calendar. Moveable soft embroidered words and numbers Velcro into place, and the calendar is available in blue or pink.
Tock the Learning Clock
£25, Learning Resources
Suitable from age 3, Tock announces the time as you turn the clock hands on the play analogue clock face, as well as showing the time on a digital clock display. There are two learning modes: Quiz, which encourages children to answer three time questions, and Music, which allows you to set the clock for some silly songs. A night light function lets young clock-watchers know when it's ok to get out of bed in the morning, too.
Easy Read Time Teacher Watch
from £19.95 (waterproof model £29.95)
The Time Teacher watches come in a rainbow of strap colours and two different modes: the 'Past-&-To' design helps children learn to tell the time in minutes past and to the hour with clear numbers and colours, and the '24-hour' design teaches kids 24-hour, "digital" time-keeping on a specially reworked clockface. Whatever stage in their time-learning journey your child is at, this is a fantastic first watch choice. Wall clocks and alarm clocks are also available.
24-Hour Number Line Clock
£12.50, Learning Resources
Help children understand that a clock is a circular number line with this innovative 24-Hour Number Line Clock teaching clock. It helps children learn to tell the time by attaching a number line to a clock face, as well as illustrating how 12-hour and 24-hour time are linked.
