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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.

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  • 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.

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Ks1 English worksheets

Year 2 exception words flashcards

Year 2 common exception words flashcards

In exception words, the English spelling code works in an unusual / uncommon way. Use these flashcards to help your child practise writing these Y2 common exception words.
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Year 1 exception words flashcards

Year 1 exception words flashcards

A colourful set of printable flashcards created by a teacher to help Year 1 children learn how to spell common exception words.
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Letter arrow cards

Letter arrow cards

Free letter arrow cards created by an experienced educator to help children practise putting sounds together and forming some words.
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TheSchoolRun Year 2 worksheets taster pack

Year 2 worksheets taster pack

Find out what your child will learn in Year 2 English, maths and science, try out a few learning activities and read our top tips about how to support their learning and development in our free, downloadable Year 2 Taster Pack.
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TheSchoolRun Year 1 worksheets taster pack

Year 1 worksheets taster pack

Find out what your child will learn in Year 1 English, maths and science, try out a few learning activities and read our top tips about how to support their learning and development in our free, downloadable Year 1 Taster Pack.
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Y1 phonics screening check 2019 past paper

Year 1 Phonics screening check 2019

The Year 1 Phonics Screening Check, administered in June, tests children's knowledge of phonics with a mixture of real and nonsense words. The 2019 official past paper will show you what sort of words children are asked to read as part of the assessment.
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Key Stage 1 - 2019 English SATs Papers cover

Key Stage 1 - 2019 English SATs Papers

Help your child prepare for the English KS1 SATs, taken at the end of Year 2, with some at-home practice. These complete Y2 SATs past papers from 2019 are the official Department for Education papers used in schools.
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Year 2 English Challenge Pack

Year 2 English Challenge Pack

Challenging reading comprehensions and activities for Year 2 readers and writers, designed to stretch your child and offer them the opportunity to explore their year-group topics in greater depth.
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Year 1 English Challenge Pack

Year 1 English Challenge Pack

Challenging reading comprehensions and activities for Year 1 readers and writers, designed to stretch your child and offer them the opportunity to explore their year-group topics in greater depth.
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Identify imperative verbs

Identify imperative verbs

Identify and underline all the imperative verbs in this instruction text about making an omelette – then make and eat one yourself!
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Y1 phonics screening check 2018 past paper

Year 1 Phonics screening check 2018

The Year 1 Phonics Screening Check, administered in June, tests children's knowledge of phonics with a mixture of real and nonsense words. The official past paper for 2018 will show you what sort of words children are asked to read as part of the assessment.
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Key Stage 1 - 2018 English SATs Papers cover

Key Stage 1 - 2018 English SATs Papers

Help your child prepare for the English KS1 SATs, taken at the end of Year 2, with some at-home practice. These complete 2018 Y2 SATs past papers are the official papers from the Department for Education, used in schools.
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Making compound words worksheet

Making compound words

Look at all the ingredients in our compound word soup. How many different compound words can you make from them?
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Write a non-fiction report worksheet

Write a non-fiction report

Help your child write about a day out to a museum or gallery with a non-fiction report template, perfect for Year 2 learners and new writers.
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KS1 Easter activities pack

KS1 Easter activities pack

English, maths and science have a very chocolatey taste over the Easter break, with lots of maths, phonics, spelling and simple science investigations to keep chocolate-hunters busy and learning.
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Tricky words memory match worksheet

Tricky words memory match (Phase 5 phonics)

Exception words or tricky words are words in which the English spelling code works in an unusual way. Have a go at this game of memory match to test your knowledge of some tricky spellings!
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The grapheme ‘ch’ for the /k/ sound and the /sh/ sound

The grapheme ‘ch’ for the /k/ sound and the /sh/ sound (Phase 5 phonics)

The grapheme ‘ch’ is used to encode (spell) different sounds in English. Say each word aloud, then sort them into the table below.
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Y1 phonics practice: reading alien words worksheet

Y1 phonics practice: reading alien words

Let's go alien hunting! Read each word aloud and decide whether you think it is a real word or an alien word.
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What are polysyllabic words worksheet

What are polysyllabic words?

A polysyllabic word is a word that has more than one syllable. Can you break these polysyllabic words down into syllables?
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The /zh/ phoneme mini bingo (Phase 5 phonics) worksheet

The /zh/ phoneme mini bingo (Phase 5 phonics)

There are lots of different ways of writing the /zh/ sound. Let's play mini bingo to help you learn them!
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