English: direct speech

English: direct speech This week we have published two sets of worksheets which introduce direct and indirect speech in a clear and easy way. Direct speech quotes the exact words spoken, whilst indirect speech is usually used in the past tense to report what has been said. Speech bubbles are...

Numbers around one million: Year 5

Numbers around one million: Year 5 A million no longer seems a large number in the modern world. With footballers being sold for over £50 million and houses in London costing well over £1 million it might be expected that children have a good understanding of large numbers. Indeed, children...

Counting and Matching in Early Reception

Counting and Matching in Early Reception Birds and worms, spiders and webs and much more! Reception teachers are often telling us that there can never be too many resources for very young children and we are delighted to be adding some lovely colourful pages to our Counting and Matching category....

Partitioning in Year 4

Partitioning in Year 4 Partitioning numbers is an important part of the new maths curriculum. In Year 4 children will be expected to partition numbers in the thousands into thousands, hundreds, tens and ones. For example: 4 560 can be written as 456 tens; 45 hundreds and 6 tens; 4...

Problem Solving in Year 2

Problem Solving in Year 2 Our Reasoning/Problem Solving categories are some of our most popular and we are continuing to develop more resources in all year groups. This week we have plenty of new sets of worksheets to help with Reasoning for Year 2. These include finding missing digits and...

Algebra in KS2 SATs

Algebra in KS2 SATs There was a very poorly written question in last year’s SAT Paper regarding algebra and cooking times. The time for cooking meat was shown in terms of a number of minutes per kilo plus some extra time, but not in the usual way. This led to...