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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.
What this means for subscribers:
- Your subscription is still active, and for now, you can keep using the website as normal — just log in with your usual details to access all our articles and resources*.
- 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.
A few changes to be aware of:
- The Learning Journey weekly email has ended, but your child’s plan will still be updated on your dashboard each Monday. Just log in to see the recommended worksheets.
- The 11+ weekly emails have now ended. We sent you all the remaining emails in the series at the end of March — please check your inbox (and spam folder) if you haven’t seen them. You can also follow the full programme here: 11+ Learning Journey.
If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected]. Thank you for being part of our journey it’s been a privilege to support your family’s learning.
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Ks2 worksheets
Free worksheets: Science, KS2, Y6
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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.
Rewards resources pack
Achievement assemblies and teachers' gold stars may not be possible right now – but we've made it easy to reward your child for effort, perseverance and all-round excellence with our Home Schooling Rewards pack. There are a few "well done" stickers and certificates that adults can work towards, too – and who will win the Kindness Cup in your house this week?
Year 6 Maths Mastery Workbook
Build on your child's mathematical understanding and boost their numeracy confidence with open-ended maths mastery investigations and practice activities, designed to stretch and challenge them and help them develop problem-solving skills.
Year 5 Maths Mastery Workbook
Boost your child's confidence with maths and help them build on their knowledge with TheSchoolRun's Year 5 Maths Mastery Workbook. Practice activities will help them consolidate their skills using the concrete-pictorial-abstract approach to numeracy used in maths mastery lessons.
Year 4 Maths Mastery Workbook
The Year 4 Maths Mastery Workbook will help to boost your child's mathematical confidence and build strong foundations for their mathematical knowledge. It's packed with hands-on practice activities and mastery tips from the experts to help develop your child's reasoning and logical thinking abilities.
Year 3 Maths Mastery Workbook
Boost your child's mathematical confidence with the Year 3 Maths Mastery Workbook. It's packed with hands-on practice activities and mastery tips from the experts to help build solid mathematical understanding and develop your child's ability to reason and show evidence of systematic thinking.
Your 11+ Exam Prep Reading Adventure
Reading is an 11+ exam preparation superpower! Each of the 40 books in our 11+ exam prep reading adventure has been chosen to act as a story-filled portal to new vocabulary and will help your child get to grips with challenging texts the fun way – no flashcards required!
Key Stage 2 - 2019 English SATs Papers
Help your child prepare for the Year 6 English SATs, taken at the end of Key Stage 2, with some revision and at-home practice. These complete KS2 SATs past papers from 2019 are the official past papers from the Department for Education, used in schools.
Key Stage 2 - 2019 Maths SATs Papers
Download the official 2019 KS2 SATs maths papers for free from TheSchoolRun to help your child practise for the Y6 assessments at home.
11+ vocabulary flashcards
Download our free 11+ flashcards to help boost your child's vocabulary and practise for the verbal reasoning tasks of the 11+ exams.
Understand the Earth's movements
An investigation and activity sheet to help Y5 children consolidate their knowledge about the Earth and how it moves in space.
Shadow investigation
A Year 5 science investigation into shadows and what they can tell us about the position of the Sun in the sky.
Learning about the moon
Find out about the Earth's moon and then answer some true-or-false questions in this Year 5 science worksheet.
The life cycle of a plant
A life cycle is the different stages of life for a living thing. Fill in a circular life cycle diagram to show you understand how a plant's life cycle works.
Repeating experiments: changing state
A simple activity to help children set up a fair test and understand evaporation.
Gases all around us
Gases are all around us, but they can be hard to spot! Help your child work through this investigation into the gases we can see and what they're used for.
Repeating experiments: changing sounds
A practical investigation into pitch and how sounds change in different conditions.
Subtracting negative numbers practice
Subtracting negative numbers can seem tricky, but there are rules to follow to make things more straightforward. Remembering these rules will help you to calculate answers without using a number line. Look at the rules then try applying them to these calculations.
Rounding to 100,000
Remember, when rounding numbers you need to look at the column of the number you are rounding to, to see if the digit is 5, smaller than 5 or larger than 5. Can you round these numbers to the nearest 100,000?
Rounding numbers to the nearest 10,000
In Year 5 maths you will be working with very large numbers. This activity asks you to round numbers up to 1 million (1,000,000). You are rounding to the nearest 10,000.
How to subtract negative numbers
When we are measuring temperatures we often use negative numbers. Complete this activity using a thermometer to help subtract (or find the difference between) a pair of negative numbers or a positive number and negative number.