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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Cool maths games for kids
Trying to make maths enjoyable for your child? Make a cup of tea, print out a board game (or two) and settle down for some cozy, round-the-kitchen-table fun your children will be asking you to make time for. As well as play value, each game offers huge learning opportunities, so pick a skill to revise, print out the game rules, board and counters and get playing!
All these games are available in your Cool Maths Games pack:
3D Shape Challenge
How many faces on a cube? How many vertices on a cylinder? After a few rounds of this clever 3D shapes version of Top Trumps, your child will know the properties of every shape in the pack.
Bone Yard Bill
Use this fun board game to help your child become confident in the basics of place value.
Capacity Matching Pairs
A maths version of snap to ensure your child knows how to read the scales on measuring cylinders.
Cowboy Cards
Make them trigger-fast at mental maths. They'll be the fastest at adding and subtracting in town!
Fraction Fun
A card-matching game to help revise unit fractions.
Fraction Tic Tac Toe
Ready steady go! Revise your fractions with Tic Tac Toe!
Hop on Home
This colourful froggy boardgame is a fun way of helping younger children become fluent with number bonds to 20.
Launch Pad
A great game for children in Years 4 and 5 who need to be able to halve large numbers and say whether they're odd or even. First one to blast off wins!
Telling the Time Game
Tick tock, tick tock. Use this snakes and ladders time game to make learning to tell the time a lot more fun than just staring at a watch!
The Weights Game
Some children find weights confusing. Boost their confidence in their measuring skills with this fast-action board game.
The Length Game
A clever twist on snakes and ladders. Rulers at the ready everyone, it's time to practise your measuring skills!
Money Matters
Practise money maths and coin recognition with this fun little board game.
Odd and Even Racer
On your marks, get set, go! Get your car counters zooming around the track and revise your odds and evens as you go.
Percentage to Decimal Runner Game
Quick! What's the decimal equivalent of 15%? The first one to the finish line's the winner...
Rounding Garages
Rounding numbers up to the nearest 10 is a key skill in maths. But who'd have thought it could be this much fun – with a set of cars and garages?
Shape Dominoes
These beautiful dominoes will help younger children know their squares from their hexagons.
Space Battle
Your children will want to play this game because it's so much fun. But it will also be ensuring they're a dab hand at coordinates.
Space Warp
What's 4.265891 rounded to two decimal places? Work out the answer and get your space ship home, but watch out for the wormholes!
Stock the Shop
Little children will love counting out the apples and pears into their baskets – while practising their counting skills.
Swim For It
This fishy fun for youngsters will help them learn their number bonds to 10 in no time.
