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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to keep our content available through a partnership with another educational provider, but this provider has since withdrawn from the agreement.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:

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 onomatopoeia?

What is onomatopoeia?
Onomatopoeia is a word that names a sound, but also sounds like that sound. Find out how teachers explain onomatopoeia to school children and how to encourage your child to use it to improve their writing.

What is onomatopoeia?

Onomatopoeia is a word that names a sound, but also sounds like that sound. For example:

boom, honk, pop, crack, cuckoo, crack, splat, tweet, zoom, sizzle, whizz, buzz, hiss, rip

How is onomatopeia taught in the classroom?

Teachers will sometimes ask children to look for onomatopoeia in poetry and discuss how effective it is. They may encourage children to use words similar to those above in their stories and poems.

A teacher may show the children a poem like the following:

They may encourage them to find all the examples of onomatopoeia in the poem. They may also talk about the rhyme scheme of the poem (the fact that each pair of lines rhyme).

Children may then be asked to think about their own poem. They may be asked to list (and maybe draw) all the things in their house that make a noise and the noises they make. They may then be asked to choose the ones they like and write it into a list poem like the one above. Depending on the age and ability of the children involved, they may be asked to think about writing a rhyming poem, or changing the form of the poem.

Children may also be encouraged to look for onomatopoeia in stories they read. They may also be encouraged to use this in their own stories.