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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.
How to add negative numbers
What’s so confusing about adding negative numbers? The fact that it doesn’t follow the rules of adding positive numbers! When you add negative numbers you are actually subtracting them. Here are some tips to help you understand and visualise this. Can you answer these sums now?
Adding and subtracting negative numbers puzzle
Can you fill in the missing numbers to make each puzzle correct? Take care with the negative numbers!
Division as repeated subtraction
An introduction to the method of ‘repeated subtraction’ (also called chunking), useless when we are dividing large numbers.
Year 6 English Challenge Pack
Challenging reading comprehensions and activities for Year 6 readers and writers, designed to stretch your child and offer them the opportunity to explore their year-group topics in greater depth.
Year 5 English Challenge Pack
Challenging reading comprehensions and activities for Year 5 readers and writers, designed to stretch your child and offer them the opportunity to explore their year-group topics in greater depth.
Decimals made simple
How confident would you feel if your child asked:
“Mum, what’s 345.89 X 22.23?”
or what if they wanted your help with this homework question:
What is 5.6 metres plus 44 millimetres?
If you’re panicking just looking at these questions – don’t worry. Written specifically to help parents support their child’s learning at home, Decimals made simple contains everything you need to make sense of decimals for your Key Stage 2 child – all presented in a fun, engaging and effective way.
“Mum, what’s 345.89 X 22.23?”
or what if they wanted your help with this homework question:
What is 5.6 metres plus 44 millimetres?
If you’re panicking just looking at these questions – don’t worry. Written specifically to help parents support their child’s learning at home, Decimals made simple contains everything you need to make sense of decimals for your Key Stage 2 child – all presented in a fun, engaging and effective way.
Year 4 English Challenge Pack
Challenging reading comprehensions and spelling activities for KS2 (Year 4) readers and writers, designed to stretch your child and offer them the opportunity to explore their year-group topics in greater depth.
Year 3 English Challenge Pack
Challenging reading comprehensions and activities for Year 3 readers and writers, designed to stretch your child and offer them the opportunity to explore their year-group topics in greater depth.
Year 6 Maths Challenge Pack
Do Year 6 maths the fun way with puzzles, challenges and activities designed to stretch upper KS2 mathematicians and help them explore the Y6 maths curriculum at greater depth.
Year 5 Maths Challenge Pack
Get your child's maths brain fired up with puzzles, challenges and activities for Year 5 mathematicians.
Year 4 Maths Challenge Pack
Encourage your child to try some Y4 maths puzzles and challenges and explore the Year 4 curriculum in greater depth. The result? Greater confidence and plenty of mathematical fun!
Year 3 Maths Challenge Pack
Offer your Year 3 mathematician some greater-depth puzzles and activities to help them explore and investigate different aspects of the Y3 maths curriculum (the fun way!).
Using imperative verbs
Learn a card trick to amaze friends and family and practise identifying and using imperative verbs in this Y4 activity worksheet.
Apostrophes and singular nouns ending in -s
When a noun we want to add an apostrophe to ends in -s we add 's to show possession, according to the national curriculum. Practise the rule by punctuating some sentences.
Key Stage 2 - 2018 Maths SATs Papers
The official 2018 KS2 SATs maths papers, which can be downloaded for free from TheSchoolRun to offer at-home practice for the Y6 tests.
Key Stage 2 - 2018 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 2018 Y6 SATs past papers are the official past papers from the Department for Education, used in schools.
Home education planning pack
If you've decided to home educate your child this learning pack provides guidance, templates and advice to get you started.
Year 6 proofreading: editing and improving
This information text needs punctuating and dividing into paragraphs. Try to include punctuation marks like semi colons, brackets and dashes, too.
Year 5 proofreading: formal and informal language
Billy has written a letter to try to persuade his local council that a new park is needed in the area. The language is very informal. Do you think his letter will be taken seriously? Your task is to keep the ideas in the letter the same but rewrite it using the more appropriate formal language that is needed when writing a persuasive letter to someone you don’t know.
Year 4 proofreading: organising information into paragraphs
Paragraphs are used to split writing into sections; each paragraph is about a different topic. Can you cut out these sentences and organise them into paragraph groups?