Free resources for Valentine’s Day Linking maths to seasonal events is often a great idea so why not add a topical twist to your maths lessons by using our Valentine’s Day worksheets? We have a fun selection of maths worksheets, all with a Valentine’s Day theme and all absolutely free for non-members. For younger children […]
English Grammar: Noun Phrases and Noun Modifiers The teaching of grammar has made huge strides forward over the past few years with primary children becoming familiar with a range of terms including verbs, adverbs, conjunctions etc. Two terms which children may not have met before are ‘noun phrase’ and ‘noun modifier’. A noun phrase is […]
Year 1 Time When we think of teaching time the first thing to come to mind is telling the time on a clock face, at first to the hour and half hour. However, in Year 1 there is a good deal more to consider, as is shown in the Measurement strand of the National Curriculum: […]
English : Fronted Adverbials Another tricky name for a simple idea. A fronted adverbial is an adverb or adverbial phrase that has been moved to the start of the sentence. Usually the adverb goes next to the verb but fronted adverbials can be used to create a more interesting sentence, just by rearranging the word […]
Year 6 SATs Fractions Our SAT Practice Booster resources are among the very best to be found anywhere. We have studied the types of question that have come up over the past four years and there are certain questions which recur again and again. To help children become confident and successful we have provided many […]
Year 4 Multiplication An interesting Year 4 set of worksheets on multiplication has just been published. Numbers on digit cards are shown and children are asked to find all the possible combinations of 2-digit numbers multiplied by 1-digit. Once this has been completed there are further questions such as finding the totals of the highest […]
Year 1 doubling small numbers Children who are good at maths have memorised a lot of facts. There are two ways of doing this, by understanding or by rote learning. It is important in Year 1 that children begin to know the doubles of small numbers. Committing doubling facts to memory allows a child to […]
Year 2 Measurement In Year 2 children will measure using centimetres but they will also begin to measure larger objects using metres, perhaps with a metre stick. When measuring it is important to use the most suitable unit; for example, when it would be sensible to measure in metres rather than cm and what would […]
Maths mastery: exciting new resources Fantastic news for all those using a maths mastery approach: new resources for the first half of the spring term are now available for Years 1, 2 and 3. In Year 1 we progress on to adding and subtracting up to 20 followed by number and place value work within […]
New on-screen activities for Years 1, 2 and 3 Great news! We have just published more new sets of fabulous on-screen activities for Years 1, 2 and 3. The Year 1 activities concentrate on addition and subtraction of numbers up to 20, building on our earlier activities with numbers up to 10. Graphics, to help […]