Year 5 Weekly Maths Programme

New: Year 5 Weekly Maths Programme Recently we have had more enquiries about the possibility of a Year 5 weekly programme than any other topic, so, here we are, the first six weeks of a weekly programme for Year 5. For those who are short of time to browse the...

Year 3 money

Year 3 money Learning to calculate with money really takes off in Year 3 and there are many activities which will help with this, both practical using coins and on paper with worksheets, including: Exchanging pence for £1,10p and 1p coins. For example: give 456 pence in £1, 10p and...

Fire of London anniversary comprehensions

The Fire of London anniversary comprehensions Friday 2nd September 2016 marks the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London. After the Great Plague of 1665, which was spread by fleas and had killed a sixth of the people living in London, the Great Fire of London flared up and...

New worksheets for Year 1

New worksheets for Year 1 We are constantly looking to improve our selection of worksheets in year 1, even though we already have over 2000 pages. This week we have added three more terrific sets of pages on counting and reading and writing numbers. Our completing number grids are very...

Calculator activities

Calculator activities Since the first hand held calculators were introduced in the 1970s there has been a debate about them being used in primary schools. The old KS2 Maths SAT Papers had a calculator paper so it would seem to make sense to teach how to use them effectively, if...

Year 5 fractions updates

Year 5 fractions updates The new primary maths programme of study really lays emphasis on teaching fractions; a topic which has always proved tricky in the past. In year 5 it is expected that children will be taught to: •    Compare fractions whose denominators are all multiples of the same...