More idioms: food and colours

More idioms: food and colours Food provides a rich source of idioms, or sayings, although the meanings may not have anything at all to do with food!  ‘Pie in the sky’ and ‘Had your chips’ are just two such sayings. We have taken a closer look at some of these...

Year 1: more than and less than

Year 1 updated: More than and less than As well as producing new material we are also constantly looking to improve and update our resources and we have just made some great improvements to our Year 1 worksheets on More Than or Less Than. With better fonts and clearer images...

Year 3 Four Rules worksheets

Year 3 Four Rules worksheets Our Year 2 Four Rules pages have proved to be very popular and the good news is that we have now published our first sets for Year 3. Containing a mixture of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division questions in a variety of formats, I am...

Fun: easy Sudoku puzzles

Fun: easy Sudoku puzzles The modern version of Sudoku was invented in 1979 by Howard Garns in USA (where it was called `Number Place').  It became really popular in Japan in the 1980s and in the UK since late 2004. It is now quickly spreading worldwide.  The word Sudoku is...

Fun: football anagrams

Fun: football anagrams The summer holidays are here - time to relax and enjoy the long summer days! But it is also a good idea to keep the brains working with a little gentle mental exercise that doesn’t seem too much like hard work. This is where our English and...

Year 2 counting in threes and fives

Year 2 counting in threes and fives Learning to count in different sized steps is still really important in Year 2. Our latest counting worksheets for are both quite tricky and should only be given when children are very confident and accurate with counting up to 100 in steps of...