Year 5 Weekly Programme

Year 5 Weekly Programme We are continuing with our weekly programme for Year 5 with the next half term’s resources having just been published. Six weeks of mixed activities, covering a wide range of maths, although calculating is the main priority. Week 13 starts by looking at really large numbers...

Free New Year Worksheets

Free New Year Worksheets The start of a new year is a great time to reflect on the past and look forward to the new. Our fabulous New Year worksheets, including some excellent resources on New Year’s Resolutions, are now all available absolutely free for anyone on a trial. The...

New worksheets: Year 4 Number and Place Value

New worksheets: Year 4 Number and Place Value We have just published two sets of Year 4 maths worksheets which are proving to be very popular. The first looks at ordering football attendances with numbers beyond 1000, whilst the second looks at ordering the prices of holidays/cruises beyond 1000. Both...

Christmas resources

Christmas free resources Wow! It really doesn’t seem that a whole year has passed since we last wrote about Christmas worksheets, but we have achieved a great deal over the last year and there is much more on its way. We have published a large number of worksheets for the...

Year 4 Reasoning and Problem Solving

Year 4 Reasoning and Problem Solving One of the key issues in primary maths at the moment is how to develop children’s reasoning and problem solving skills. In the classroom children are being asked more and more to solve mathematical problems and to explain the reasoning behind their choice of...

English vocabulary: cloze procedures

English vocabulary: cloze procedures Cloze procedures are great for developing vocabulary. A cloze procedure, or exercise, is a piece of writing where children have to fill in the missing words so that the sentences make sense. Sometimes there is a collection of words that can be used to fill the...