Year 5 Using Degrees

It really helps children understand angle if it is described as a measure of turn. By Year 5 children should already be able to recognise acute and obtuse angles. This is taken further in Year 5 where degrees are introduced. A degree is a unit of measurement for turn and...

Year 4 Decimals

Working with tenths and hundredths are important parts of the Year 4 curriculum and many schools concentrate on this during the first part of the summer term. Children need to explore different ways of making one whole one by combining tenths. For example, six tenths and four tenths will make...

Year 3 Adding Fractions

It is in Year 3 where it is really important to take time to encourage children to understand what is happening when two fractions are added together. The meaning of the numerator and denominator needs to be emphasised to help with this understanding. Pictorial representations are a good way to...

Year 2 Fractions as Equal Parts

An important part of children’s understanding of fractions is whether a shape has been split into equal or unequal parts. “My half is smaller than your half!” cannot be true as halves have to be equal. In this case there are two parts, but they are not halves. There are...

Year 1 Recognising Halves

Setting work at the right level helps children believe in themselves and encourages them to make progress. This is probably more true when teaching fractions than most other topics. Children need plenty of practice making and identifying halves. An important part of this is to understand that some shapes can...

Prepositions of time

Whilst we are on the subject of time why not take a look at our prepositions of time worksheets. For a child learning about English grammar the rules can sometimes appear to be rather weird and this is as true for using prepositions as any other part of grammar! An...