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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.
Present tense and past tense jumbled-up sentences
We use the present tense to talk about things that are happening now, in the present. We use the past tense to talk about things that have already happened. Can you cut out these sentences and sort them into two piles to show which use the present tense and which the past tense?
Formal and informal language
In everyday life we often to choose to write in formal or informal language, depending on what we’re writing and who we’re writing to. Look at the two letters below. Discuss which bits of each letter are formal and informal with an adult. Can you underline and label certain features?
Changing verb tenses
Look at the following sentences. Each one needs to be rewritten into different tenses. Are you ready?
Am, are or is?
Look at the gaps in the following sentences. Can you write one of the following words in each gap to make the sentence correct?
Adding was / were to a sentence
Look at the gaps in the following sentences. Can you write one of the following words in each gap to make the sentence correct?
Adding is / am / are / was / were to sentences
Look at the following sentences. Can you choose a verb from this list to put in each gap?
Add the missing pronouns
Some of the pronouns from this Alice in Wonderland passage are missing. Can you add them back in?
Y5 time word problems
Use your knowledge of time to solve these word problems. For an extra challenge, work against the clock and aim to finish as quickly as possible!
Word problems: measurement
Can you tackle these tricky word problems? They are all about measurement...
The prefix super-
All these words contain the prefix super-. Look through the list. Do you know what each word means? Look up any words you don’t know in the dictionary.
Spelling patterns: the prefix re- sentence challenge
All the words in pink contain the prefix re- which means ‘again’. The words need swapping round so they’re in the right places; decide where they should go and rewrite the sentences so they make sense.
Spelling patterns: the prefix pre-
The prefix pre- means ‘before’. The word prefix includes the prefix pre! Do you know the meaning of these pre- words? Look up any you don’t know in the dictionary, then write a sentence containing each word in the right-hand box.
Spelling patterns: the prefix audi-
The prefix audi- means ‘to hear’, ‘to listen’ or ‘sound’. Write down what you think each of the words below mean in the middle box, then look each one up in the dictionary and write down the definition. How close were you?
Spelling patterns: the prefix aqua-
All these words have the prefix aqua-. Look in a dictionary to find the meanings of these words and write them in the spaces. What do you think the prefix aqua- means?
Spelling patterns: the prefix aero-
Can you cut out these definitions and match them to the correct words? What do you think the prefix aero- means?
Ordering decimals on a number line
Can you place these decimals in the correct place on the number line?
Number sequence puzzles
Can you solve these sequence puzzles? Once you’ve understood how they work, write your own number sequence puzzles and get an adult to solve them. How tricky can you make them?
Finding percentages of quantities
Once you can find 5%, 10%, 50% and 75% of a quantity you can move on to finding the value of harder percentages! Use this method to work out the answers to these tricky percentage questions.
Drawing shapes using parallel lines
Can you draw a shape that has four sides and two parallel lines? What about a pentagon? What about a shape with two or more right angles?
Bar chart problem
Look at this bar chart, which shows the number of portions of fruit and vegetables eaten by children in Year 5 in one day, and see if you can answer the questions below.