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to keep our content available through a partnership with another educational provider, but this provider has since withdrawn from the agreement.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 repeated addition?
What is repeated addition?
Repeated addition is taught in Year 2, as a basis for helping children understand multiplication.
A teacher may ask a child to work out what 3 lots of 5 are. They may be asked to make 3 groups of 5 counters. Then they may be asked to write the number sentence 5 + 5 + 5 = and then work out the answer, which is 15.
They may also be asked to draw an array to help them work this out. For example, for 3 lots of 5, they would draw:
Children often need to use plenty of visual images like this to really help them with the concept of multiplication. Once they have got the hang of this, they can then move onto writing this into the number sentence:
3 x 5 = 15
They need to repeatedly be made aware that 3 x 5 is '3 lots of 5'.
Repeated addition may be helpful for children as they go up the school and are still not confident with their times tables. For example: a Year 3 child who does not know their 6x table yet, may find it easier to work out 4 x 6 by writing 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 and then slowly adding up the 4 sixes. It may also be helpful with larger numbers, such as 5 x 40. A child may feel comfortable writing 40 + 40 + 40 + 40 + 40 and then adding on the tens on their fingers.
It is important, however, that children move onto learning how to work out number sentences like the above using multiplication, so when working out 5 x 40, they work out 5 x 4 = 20, then multiply this by 10 to make 200.
