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to keep our content available through a partnership with another educational provider, but this provider has since withdrawn from the agreement.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 is ascending order?
What is ascending order?
When a group of numbers are given in ascending order, this means they are given in order from smallest to largest (ascending means 'going up').
Ascending order in KS1 and KS2
Children are often asked to order numbers.
In Key Stage 1, they may be asked to order two-digit numbers such as the following:
58 15 85 49 30
In Key Stage 2, children are often asked to order decimals such as the following:
0.4 0.18 0.9 1.2 0.49
They will usually be asked to put the numbers in order from smallest to largest. It is rare that they will be expected to know what 'ascending' means, however it is useful for them to be aware of this term.
If you are asked to put a list of dates in ascending order, that would be from earliest date to latest date, so these dates:
05/09/13 06/01/13 09/07/13
would be changed into this order:
06/01/13 09/07/13 05/09/13
Ascending order is also used for putting words into alphabetical order, from A to Z, so these words:
aardvark squirrel kangaroo marmot
would go in this order:
aardvark kangaroo marmot squirrel
Children might also be asked to order numbers, dates or words in descending order.
