TheSchoolRun.com closure date
As we informed you a few months ago, TheSchoolRun has had to make the difficult decision to close due to financial pressures and the company has now ceased trading. We had hoped to keep our content available through a partnership with another educational provider, but this provider has since withdrawn from the agreement.
As a result, we now have to permanently close TheSchoolRun.com. However, to give subscribers time to download any content they’d like to keep, we will keep the website open until 31st July 2025. After this date, the site will be taken down and there will be no further access to any resources. We strongly encourage you to download and save any resources you think you may want to use in the future.
In particular, we suggest downloading:
- Learning packs
- All the worksheets from the 11+ programme, if you are following this with your child
- Complete Learning Journey programmes (the packs below include all 40 worksheets for each programme)
You should already have received 16 primary school eBooks (worth £108.84) to download and keep. If you haven’t received these, please contact us at [email protected] before 31st July 2025, and we will send them to you.
We are very sorry that there is no way to continue offering access to resources and sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused.
What are tessellating shapes?
What is tessellation?
Tessellation is when shapes fit together exactly with no gaps. Here are some examples of tessellating shapes:
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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.
