New English KS1: Understanding suffixes

Children are introduced to prefixes and suffixes during Key Stage 1. Suffixes are letters added to the end of a word which will change its meaning, word type or tense. Our latest set of resources look at adding the suffixes ‘ing’, ‘ed’ and ‘er’ to words in order to make...

2025 KS1 & KS2 Maths Curriculum Review

Good news! URBrainy is very well covered for all changes suggested in the 2025 KS1 and KS2 Maths curriculum review.The Government’s review of the National Curriculum has recently been announced and for the Maths curriculum in Key Stages 1 and 2 there is little in the way of significant change;...

URBrainy MTC Wins Prestigious 2025 Maths Teach Awards

URBrainy is proud to announce that its Multiplication Tables Check (MTC) tool, available at https://urbrainy.com/mtc, is the Maths category winner in the 2025 Teach Awards, recognising outstanding contributions to education and digital learning.What are the Teach awards?The Teach Awards, one of the education sector’s most respected accolades, celebrates innovation, impact,...

Free daily maths questions!

The Daily Challenge is a free resource: all you need is your username and password to log into the site for a free trial; it doesn’t matter if your previous trial has expired, just login and you can still see the Daily Challenge.The ‘Daily Challenge’ covers maths mental arithmetic skills...

KS2 Booster: Money

It’s good to know that there are some questions using easier numbers on the SAT Papers. Last year’s papers included a money problem solving question involving a table of prices. The Maths is quite easy, but children will need to think about what calculations have to be done to reach...

KS2 Comprehensions

Two new comprehensions have been published this week which are quite different from those we have already. The topics are making a loaf of bread and baking a cake. Both have detailed methods, showing the ingredients and order of baking and some of the questions are in the form of...