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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.

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What are tessellating shapes?

Tessellating shapes
We explain what tessellating shapes are and why tessellation may be taught in primary school as part of learning about 2D shapes.

What is tessellation?

Tessellation is when shapes fit together exactly with no gaps. Here are some examples of tessellating shapes:

Learning about tessellation can be a fun activity to try when teaching primary-school aged children about 2D shapes. For example, children may be asked to cut out several regular hexagons and see if they can make them tessellate.

They could also be given dotty paper to draw their own tessellating shapes.

Tessellations were used in Ancient Rome and Islamic art, so tessellation activities may be given to children who are learning about these topics. Tessellation provides opportunities for children to produce art work with cross-curricular links to maths and history.

A very difficult challenge would be to ask a child to make two different shapes that will tessellate together in some way, similar to the middle diagram.

Use our tessellating shapes activity to get hands-on with shapes at home with your child.