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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:
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- 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.
Optional SATs papers: Y3 English set B
A Year 3 English practice optional SATs paper, written by a primary-school teacher to mirror the old optional SATs papers used in schools before 2016 to assess pupils' progress at the end of Y3. Exclusive to TheSchoolRun subscribers and available for instant download.
Optional SATs papers: Y3 English set A
Download this Year 3 English practice optional SATs paper, written by a primary-school teacher to mirror the optional SATs papers used in schools until 2015 to assess pupils' progress at the end of the KS2 school year, to offer your child some extra at-home practice.
Optional SATs papers: Y4 maths set B
If you'd like your child to sit a Year 4 end-of-summer-term test to check their understanding of Year 4 maths, download our subscriber-only mock optional SATs paper, written by a primary-school teacher to mirror the topics typically covered in the old-style Year 4 maths optional SATs tests.
Optional SATs papers: Y4 maths set A
This Y4 maths practice optional SATs paper, exclusively available to TheSchoolRun subscribers, has been written by a primary-school teacher to mirror the old-style optional SATs papers used in schools before 2016 to assess pupils' progress at the end of the KS2 school year.
Triangular numbers puzzle
Sam works in a supermarket stacking cans of beans. The beans are delivered in boxes of 49 and Sam has to arrange them in triangular stacks. One day, he finds that he can arrange 49 cans into 3 triangular stacks. Can you work out how Sam did this? Is there a second way of doing it?
Triangular numbers: handshake investigation
If everyone in a group of people shakes hands with everyone else, the total number of handshakes will always be a triangular number. Is this true or false? Investigate!
Triangular numbers explained
A triangular number can be represented by a triangle of dots. Work out the first 20 triangular numbers (you won’t be able to draw them all!).
Simplifying or reducing fractions
Can you reduce these fractions to their lowest form?
Simplifying fractions practice
Can you reduce these sets of three fractions to their lowest form, then put them in order from smallest to largest?
Matching equivalent fractions
Can you match up all the equivalent fractions? You’ll need to reduce them to their simplest form.
Identifying denominators and numerators
Can you work out what fraction of these sweets are red, purple, green and yellow?
Fractions in their simplest form
Find the fractions which are the same in the simplest form and colour them the same colour.
Fractions equal to 1
Can you write the fraction of each chocolate bar which is white chocolate, and the fraction which is milk chocolate?
Fractions addition practice
Now for some fractions addition practice! Choose the correct answer from the four options.
Finding common factors
Can you identify the common factors for these pairs of numbers?