Year 5 Mental Addition

Year 5 Mental AdditionChildren need plenty of practice at adding larger numbers mentally. This often involves adding multiples of 1,000 or even 10,000 to 5 or 6-digit numbers. When working with such large numbers it is easy to make errors or read the number incorrectly. We have just added further...

Year 4: Solving problems

Year 4: Solving problemsPlanting vegetables and gardening have been very popular activities over the last few weeks for many lucky children with gardens at home, and we are pleased to add some great problem solving pages on planting flowers, bulbs and seeds for Year 4. The instructions on the pack...

Year 2: Measuring Weight

Year 2: Measuring Weight In Year 2 children are introduced to kilograms and grams. Scales are a great way to compare the mass of different objects which leads on to ordering items from lightest to heaviest. There is plenty of material on the site on both comparing mass and weighing...

Year 1 Fractions

Year 1 FractionsFortunately the targets for children to achieve in Year 1 are sensible:• recognise, find and name a half as one of two equal parts of an object, shape or quantity. • recognise, find and name a quarter as one of four equal parts of an object, shape or...

Telling the Time in Year 2

Telling the Time in Year 2In Year 2 there is a great deal for children to understand about time. We have grouped our time worksheets into the following sub-categories, with plenty to choose from in each:• revise telling the time to the half hour• telling the time to a quarter...

Florence Nightingale’s 200th Anniversary

Florence Nightingale’s 200th AnniversaryProbably the most famous nurse ever known, Florence Nightingale was born into a wealthy English family on 12th May 1820 and studied nursing in London. In 1854 she was asked to take a team of nurses out to Scutari to nurse the wounded soldiers from the Crimean...