Year 6 Subtraction

Now for some quite tricky mental subtraction for Year 6 children. Working with 6 and 7 figure numbers to subtract is no easy task and the skills learnt in earlier years will be needed – for example counting on. One of the key aspects of this is to realise that...

Year 3 Converting Measurements

It is important in Year 3 that children have plenty of practice measuring using millimetres and centimetres. Part of this is to be able to convert from one to the other. For example, 34 mm can be converted to 3 cm and 4 mm. At this stage the decimal point...

Roman Gods

We have taken a slightly different approach to our latest topic, Roman Gods and Goddesses, providing a brief introduction to some of the better known figures and follow up work requiring further thinking or research. This week we look at four:Saturn was the king of the Roman gods and the...

Year 6 Algebra

Function machines are an excellent way to help children with the early stages of algebra. The number that is put into the machine is called the input and the number that comes out is called the output. The function machine will always carry out the same operations in the same...

Year 5 Angles on a straight line

Two brand new sets of pages for Year 5 which look at angles on a straight line. Both are very different; the first looks at calculating the angles on a straight line using the knowledge that the sum of the angles comes to 180 degrees. The second looks at measuring...

Year 4 Finding Fractions

Understanding fractions is a topic that requires a lot of practice and it is well worth going over concepts many times to make sure that children understand them. In Year 4 children need to explore fractions of shapes and quantities and through this, the meaning of the numerator and denominator....