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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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Year 7 maths: what your child learns

Maths equipment
As your budding mathematician moves up to secondary school and starts KS3 maths, what new skills will they learn?

KS3 maths is usually taught in ability sets: this means the more able children will be stretched, while children who struggle with maths will take things more slowly, and be given more support.

Your child will find some of the work similar to primary school, but it will be more challenging and the children are expected to be working more independently.

With all the topics the children will be studying, they’ll be developing ‘mathematical process’ skills, which include reasoning, analysis and evaluation.

Y7 maths – your child will be learning from the following topics:

Numbers

Preparing for Y7 maths at home

  • If your child has a mobile phone, set them the task of finding the best tariff
  • Encourage your child to look out for percentages: in a newspaper, in shops, or on adverts for credit cards
  • Practise maths when you’re out shopping or in a restaurant – get your child to add up prices, work out how much you can save on special offers, and estimate the total bill
  • If your child enjoys maths and wants to be stretched, ask if your school has a maths club

Algebra

  • Using letters to represent numbers
  • Simplifying equations
  • Solving simple equations
  • Number sequences
  • Input, output and mapping diagrams
  • Plotting graphs using coordinates

Geometry and measures

  • Recognising parallel and perpendicular lines
  • Calculating the sum of angles on a point, triangle and straight line
  • Using the correct geometrical terms
  • Geometrical problems using triangles and quadrilaterals
  • Reflections, rotations and translations of 2D shapes
  • Symmetry of a 2D shape
  • Finding coordinates of points
  • Using a ruler and protractor to draw accurate lines, angles and triangles, and construct 3D shapes
  • Estimating and calculating problems involving measuring
  • Converting metric units
  • Estimating the size of acute, obtuse and reflex angles
  • Learning the formula for calculating the area of a rectangle
  • Surface area of cubes and cuboids

Statistics

  • Collecting data from surveys and experiments
  • Designing questionnaires to collect data
  • Creating frequency tables
  • Calculating statistics
  • Finding the mode, median and mean
  • Creating and interpreting graphs, pie charts and diagrams showing data, on paper and using ICT
  • Writing a statistical report
  • Understanding probability terms such as likely, unlikely, impossible, probably
  • Estimating probability from a simple experiment
  • Comparing probabilities