Maths worksheets: Lines of symmetry

Folding to create symmetrical patterns is a popular past-time in schools. These maths worksheets are quite tricky as they ask children to colour the correct spots on the other side of the line of symmetry to make sure that the shape is symmetrical. Pegboards are a useful aid to this...

Practical ideas: Building towers (counting)

Lego bricks, multilink, similar building blocks or just cubes are an excellent resource for helping with counting. Here are just two ideas for building towers, including counting up in ones as it is built, and down in ones as it is taken apart. Build two towers and comparing the number...

Year 1 week 27 resources now published

We are now getting well into the summer term and our most recent support resources for the Primary Framework planning in schools have been published. This is a great selection of practical ideas, printable pages and challenges, including work on: counting on in threes sorting 2D shape adding three small...

What's New: Thick and thin, comparing size

Early measurement is all about comparisons. Long before  starting to use standard units of measurement such as metres, children need to be able to make sensible comparisons. For this set of worksheets the comparisons are all to do with measurement, using the terms thick, thicker, thickest and thin, thinner and...

What's New: Change from 10p

Having a toy shop is a great way to learn about money and gain confidence with addition and subtraction. If no shop is available why not try this set of worksheets which look at the change given from 10p. The usual way of working this out is by counting up...

What's new: Year 1 weekly plans

Apologies for this week's plans being a little late, but I have been abroad during the 'ash crisis' and only just made it back by cruise ship, during which time I did not have access to the site to upload this week's resources! But, at last, here they are, including...