Year 5: Translations

In year 5 children will recap the work done in Year 4 on coordinate grids and reading and plotting points. Be prepared for children confusing the x and y values and they may well need some assistance in how to read and write coordinates of given points e.g. ‘along the...

Year 3 and 4: Pounds and Pence

In Year 3 plenty of work still needs to be done on a practical basis using a mixture of pounds and pence. At this stage children will use £ and p notation, rather than decimals. For example, £5 and 35p rather than £5.35.We have just published 2 colour sets of...

Year 5: Measuring perimeter

Year 5: Measuring perimeter.

Year 2: Revising Time

Children in Year 1 will have worked with time to the hour and half hour, but they will need to revisit this during Year 2 before going on to tell the time to a quarter hour, or to 5 minutes. Clock faces are crucial for this, With half past the...

Reasoning in Year 6

Reasoning skills are all about applying knowledge and understanding to solve new problems. The key feature of work in Year 6 has to be the KS2 Maths SATs which are held in May. There are three written papers. One is a calculation paper, concentrating on mental and written calculations. The...

Reasoning in Year 5

Many of our resources in all categories involve mathematical reasoning, but we also have a special area, called Reasoning/Problem Solving for each year group which really concentrates on this important aspect of Mathematics. We would like to highlight just three sets of resources for Year 5 Reasoning on: Ordering decimals...