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TheSchoolRun.com closure date

As we informed you a few months ago, TheSchoolRun has had to make the difficult decision to close due to financial pressures and the company has now ceased trading. We had hoped to keep our content available through a partnership with another educational provider, but this provider has since withdrawn from the agreement.

As a result, we now have to permanently close TheSchoolRun.com. However, to give subscribers time to download any content they’d like to keep, we will keep the website open until 31st July 2025. After this date, the site will be taken down and there will be no further access to any resources. We strongly encourage you to download and save any resources you think you may want to use in the future.

In particular, we suggest downloading:

You should already have received 16 primary school eBooks (worth £108.84) to download and keep. If you haven’t received these, please contact us at [email protected] before 31st July 2025, and we will send them to you.

We are very sorry that there is no way to continue offering access to resources and sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused.

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