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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.
Optional SATs papers: Y4 English 2006
At the end of Y4 your child may take "optional" SATs to help the teacher assess their progress and achievement. This Y4 English SATs paper from 2006 is free to download and may help your child practise and revise at home.
Optional SATs papers: Y3 English 2006
Prior to 2016, optional SATs were used by teachers to help them assess children's progress at the end of each school year. This official Year 3 English SATs paper from 2006, free to download, can be used for at-home revision and practice.
Spelling words list
Get weekly spelling practice organised with our printable spelling lists, blank and ready to be filled with your child's assigned words. Attach the list to the fridge for quick revision sessions before the weekly spelling test.
Look, Cover, Write and Check spelling words
A blank Look, Cover, Write and Check spelling words list for kids to download and print to practise their weekly spelling words and prepare for tests.
Spelling test for Year 6 pack
Help your child improve their spelling in the run-up to KS2 SATs with our Year 6 spelling practice tests. Designed to help revise the common spelling patterns taught at the end of primary school, the 11 tests will boost your child's confidence (and spelling skills!) and ensure they're practising the correct words during Y6.
Year 5 spelling tests pack
Focus on Year 5 tricky words and spelling patterns with our 11 tests, designed to help your child improve their spelling skills. The Look, Cover, Write and Check method is suggested to help consolidate difficult spellings, so each test offers a fill-in grid to work with.
Year 4 spelling tests pack
Our Year 4 spelling tests cover the common words and rules taught as part of the Y4 English curriculum. Help your child revise the spellings they're learning at school with the Look, Cover, Write and Check method and boost their confidence with some quick-fire practice sessions.
Year 3 spelling tests pack
Revise Year 3 spelling patterns and tricky spellings with our practice tests, which cover the common words and rules taught as part of the Y3 English curriculum. The Look, Cover, Write and Check method is used to help your child learn the correct spelling of each word.
Optional SATs papers: Y5 maths 2006
Use these Year 5 maths optional SATs papers from 2006, free to download, to help your child revise their numerical knowledge at the end of Y5 and identify areas they need extra support with.
Optional SATs papers: Y4 maths 2006
Revise Year 4 maths skills and knowledge with an official optional SATs past paper, free to download for some at-home practice.
Optional SATs papers: Y3 maths 2006
Download this Year 3 maths optional SATs paper from 2006, used in school to assess pupils' progress at the end of the school year, to offer your child some at-home practice.
Shakespeare plays wordsearch
Challenge your KS2 child to a Shakespearean wordsearch. Can they find the titles of 14 of the Bard's famous plays hidden in the wordsearch grid?
Writing direct speech
Here is a helpful frame to remind you how to put together direct speech. Can you write your own direct speech sentences?
Using a pictogram to represent data
Year 4 have been washing cars for charity! They split up into their house teams and charged £2.50 per car. Can you work out how much each house team raised by showing the results in a pictogram?
The probability scale
Cut out these events and stick them where you think they should go on the probability scale. Remember, the probability scale starts at 0 and ends at 1, so you’ll need to be good with your decimals!
The present tense
Here is a list of past tense phrases. Can you write the correct present tense? Be careful, some of the verbs are irregular...
Ratio problem-solving
You’re going to need your ratio skills to build a fantastically colourful new house.
Ratio potion problems
We want to mix some evil potions but we have to be sure to get the ratio of ingredients right. Can you help?
Probability Piranhas game
You are going to go piranha fishing in The Amazon using piranha cages! But there is a likelihood of river rapids, so you'll have to decide whether to put your piranha cages shallow or deep...
Make a number game
Each of the two players must take it in turns to roll both dice to get two numbers. Now add or subtract with them anyway you want. Mark off the answer on the board with one of your counters. The winner is the person with the most counters on the board at the end of the game.