New English: Capital Letters for Dates

A good deal of work is carried out in Key Stage 1 on capital letters. We have just published a new set of pages concentrating on using capital letters correctly for dates, especially days of the week and months of the year. Well worth a look. Download Now

New Year 6: Units of Measurement

Children are taught metric units of measurement right across the primary years, but in the real world they will often hear adults use imperial measures such as feet and inches. Indeed, the imperial unit, mile, is still the mandatory unit for road signs. This makes it difficult to know how...

New Year 5: Christmas word problems

As we move towards the Christmas period don’t forget that we have an extensive range of maths resources with Christmas themes. Whilst the subjects and illustrations are all linked to Christmas, the maths is of high quality and is perfectly matched to the year groups. This week we have published...

New Year 4: Multiplying by 1 and 0

In Year 4 children will work on the effect of multiplying numbers by 1 and by 0. They will notice that when they multiply a number by one the answer will always be the number itself. When multiplying by zero the answer will always be zero. Our new resources use...

New Year 3: Multiplying by 8

Our latest resources, published this week, look at multiplying by 8. An important part of this is for children to recognise that each multiple of 8 is double the equivalent multiple of 4. This can be extended so that children can see that multiplying a number by 8 is the...

New Year 2: Shape

We develop the shape work published this week in Year 1 by looking at more complicated 2D shapes in pictures. These include shapes within shapes and use terms such as rectangle, triangle and circle. Shapes are often presented to children in a standard way but it is important that children...