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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.
Y4 English booster pack
Put Y4 literacy skills and knowledge into practice the fun way with wordsearches, mix and match activities, play scripts and more - a great way to revise over the summer holidays to prepare for the challenges of the next school year.
Year 4 maths booster pack
From number sequences and rounding to subtracting with the partitioning or column methods, the Year 4 maths booster pack will help your child consolidate key mathematical skills and knowledge in a quick daily practice session - and offer some fun revision problems and activities to try.
Shaped number puzzle
Have a look at this repeating pattern of shapes and see if you can answer these tricky questions.
Percentage problem
A Year 6 maths worksheet created by a teacher to help your child practise percentage word problems at home.
Area explained
This Year 4 (KS2) maths worksheet on area was created by a primary school teacher and will help your child understand how to calculate the area of shapes.
Area is the name we use for the amount of space a surface or 2D shape takes up. You could measure the area of a small space like a table or a big space like the school field. We measure area in square units. Have a look at these shapes. Can you work out what area in cm2 they have?
Area is the name we use for the amount of space a surface or 2D shape takes up. You could measure the area of a small space like a table or a big space like the school field. We measure area in square units. Have a look at these shapes. Can you work out what area in cm2 they have?
Summer brain-boosting challenges
Juggle fruit. Work on the technology of the future. Plot and design a lost city, create a zoo of invented animals, learn to talk sdrawkcab and bake a pizza clock and a pastry map. How many of our wonderful brain-boosting challenges can you fit into your summer? All you need are some art materials, imagination and an enquiring mind to have a go at a whole host of practical and reflective activities, suitable for primary-school children (and parents, of course). Have fun!
Multiples of 6 card puzzle
Using the digits 0 to 6, how many different two-digit multiples of 6 can you make? You'll need to be methodical in your working out to get them all!
Completing a symmetrical shape
The line down the middle of a symmetrical shape (the same on both sides) is called the line of symmetry. The grid on this worksheet shows a quarter of a shape that has two lines of symmetry. Can you complete the shape? Use a mirror to help if you need to.
Making multiples with digit cards
Use your knowledge of multiples to solve this tricky numbers puzzle. How quickly can you get to the solution?
Experiments and science fun for KS1 and KS2
Beans, gingerbread men, ice, washing-up bottles and cocoa powder – that's all you need to demonstrate key KS1 and KS2 science concepts to your child at the kitchen table. Packed with simple experiments, fun games (Muffled Chinese Whispers, anyone?) and parent-friendly science explanations, our Experiments and science fun for KS1 and KS2 learning pack is all you need to make primary science come to life for your child.
School trip puzzle
40 children are going on a school trip. Can you help work out how much money is needed for tickets and lunch?
Making numbers from number cards
Cut out the number cards then see if you can match them to give the answers to these tricky problems.
Guess the number quick puzzles
Are you smart enough to work out this number puzzle? Challenge mum or dad and see if they can do it quicker than you.
Fractions problem
Rendham Village have held their annual dance. By the end of the day, they have made £500. Can you help them work out how to split the money between their chosen charities?
Follow instructions to draw shapes
Can you follow these instructions and draw these shapes with right angles, sides and parallel lines?
Creating a symmetrical pattern
This shape has a vertical mirror line. Can you shade in more of the small rectangles so that both sides of the shape are symmetrical?
Budgeting problem
Lorraine needs 1kg of rice. Will be it cheaper for her to buy a large box or two medium boxes or four small boxes? Can you help her work out her budgeting problem?
Year 6 English Progress checks
From persuasive arguments to punctuation, text analysis to narrative techniques and spelling to sentence structure, Year 6 brings all your child's primary school literacy learning together. Check their progress and identify any areas they might need to revise in the run-up to KS2 SATs with our Progress checks.
Year 5 English Progress checks
In Y5 English your child will be using prefixes and suffixes to spell words correctly, analysing texts and punctuating with speech marks and apostrophes. Check that they're on track with our Y5 English Progress checks, written by a KS2 teacher to help you identify any topics your child finds tricky and might need extra help with.
Year 4 English Progress checks
Homophones, non-fiction texts, using paragraphs correctly and the possessive apostrophe – all part of the literacy curriculum for Y4. Check your child's understanding of key topics and identify any areas they need to practise and revise with our Y4 English Progress checks.