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What stores and transfers energy?
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be transferred from one store into another. In these pictures, which items do you think use energy? Which ones store energy? Do they all store/use the same type of energy? Cut them out and sort them into groups.
Understanding friction: Build your own balloon hovercraft
When a moving surface slides on a stationary surface it rubs against it, which slows it down. This is due to friction, a force which resists the movement of one object sliding past another. Understand more about friction with a fantastic practical project: make your own balloon hovercraft!
Super scientist quiz
Quiz questions to encourage your child to think about how scientists work and why they do the things they do.
Reaching conclusions
A worksheet showing results of an experiment with questions underneath to consider.
Ellipsis and quotations
In a text we can use ellipsis (three dots) to show that something is missing. Here are some quotations from an interview with a children’s author. Re-write them using ellipsis.
Different types of determiners
Determiners help us understand which noun is being talked about. There are different kinds of determiner. Look at the sentences in the left-hand column. Can you underline the determiner in each sentence and write down what kind of determiner it is in the right-hand column?
Determiners: filling in the gaps
Determiners are words that come before a noun and specify which (or how many) nouns we’re talking about. Each of these sentences is missing determiners. Can you add in determiners that you think will make sense?
Dashes to mark the boundary between independent clauses
Sometimes dashes are used to indicate a pause in sentences that contain two independent clauses. Look at these sentences and add in the dash where you think it should go in each one.
Dashes to link clauses
Sometimes dashes are used in sentences to link different clauses and indicate a pause or break in the flow of a sentence. Look at these sentences and write in a dash where you think it should go in each one.
Collective nouns
Can you match up the collective nouns on the left with the correct nouns on the right?
Choosing collective nouns
A collective noun is a noun used to refer to a group of things. Cut out all the blue and red cards. See if you can match the blue collective nouns to the red nouns.
Adverbial phrases: matching halves of sentences
An adverbial phrase is a group of words (without a verb) that tells us when, how or where something is done. If they are placed at the beginning of a sentence adverbial phrases are called fronted adverbials. Cut out all these sentence halves. The first set are fronted adverbials. Can you match them to the other half of the sentence?
Adverbial phrases in sentences
Adverbial phrases at the start of a sentence are called fronted adverbials. Cut out these sentence starters and see if you can match them with the correct adverbial phrases.
Key Stage 2 - 2015 English SATs Papers
Help your child prepare for the English KS2 SATs, taken at the end of Year 6, with some revision and at-home practice. These complete Y6 SATs past papers from 2015 are the official past papers from the Department for Education, used in schools.
Key Stage 2 - 2015 LEVEL 6 English SATs Papers
Official 2015 English KS2 SATs papers (Level 6), free to download for at-home revision and practice. The Level 6 KS2 SATs were taken by very able children at the end of Year 6 until 2015 but are no longer used.
Key Stage 2 - 2015 LEVEL 6 Maths SATs Papers
The official 2015 Level 6 KS2 maths SATs papers, free to download for at-home practice. Level 6 SATs were taken by very able children at the end of Year 6 between 2012 and 2015.
Key Stage 2 - 2015 Maths SATs Papers
A complete set of official KS2 SATs maths papers (levels 3-5) from 2015. The past papers and answers and marking scheme can be downloaded for free from TheSchoolRun to offer at-home practice for the Y6 tests.
KS2 English SATs practice test E
Prepare for the KS2 SATs with some practice papers, written in the style of the new Year 6 assessments. Reading comprehension, spelling and grammar are part of the English test. TheSchoolRun mock papers are exclusive to subscribers.
KS2 English SATs practice test D
Our KS2 English SATs practice papers are exclusive to TheSchoolRun subscribers and written in the style of the new SATs. Each practice paper includes reading comprehension papers, a spelling test and a grammar test, as well as answers.
KS2 English SATs practice test C
Boost your child's confidence in the run-up to the KS2 SATs with some at-home practice. TheSchoolRun's mock papers, exclusive to subscribers, have been prepared to mirror the format of the official test.
KS2 English SATs practice test B
New-style practice SATs papers, available exclusively to TheSchoolRun subscribers to help children practise reading comprehension, spelling and grammar in the run-up to the May Year 6 assessments.
KS2 English SATs practice test A
Help your child get used to the new KS2 SATs format with our English practice papers, exclusive to TheSchoolRun subscribers. Each practice paper includes reading comprehension papers, a spelling test and a grammar test, as well as answers.
KS2 maths SATs practice paper E
Make practice papers part of SATs revision with our mock KS2 maths tests, written in the style of the new Year 6 assessments. Available exclusively to TheSchoolRun subscribers.