Year 4 Addition decimals

Year 4 Addition decimals updates By the end of Year 4 children are now expected to be confident with the use of formal written methods of addition. This, of course, follows on from having good mental skills with adding one and two-digit numbers. We have an excellent collection of addition...

Weather vocabulary

More weather vocabulary Recently we published two sets of worksheets on weather words, including sunny, rainy and windy words. We have now added to these to include more vocabulary for bad weather and words to describe different kinds of light. The first of these includes terms such as smog, overcast...

Year 6 past SAT papers

Year 6 past SAT papers One of the best ways to revise for the Year 6 SATs is to go through past papers. This familiarises children with both the layout and type of question. We have an excellent selection of past papers, with answers, and have just published last year’s...

Long words

Long words These pages are certainly not for the fainthearted! Starting with the longest words found in the new primary spelling lists for years 5 and 6 (words such as explanation and opportunity) we quickly move on to much longer words. Many children find long words fascinating and will enjoy...

Roots: uni, bi, tri and quad

Roots: uni, bi, tri and quad Latin and Greek are two languages that most of our children do not come across today, yet we have taken many of our words from these languages. Knowing the meaning of some of these Latin and Greek terms or roots can help us work...

Year 2 subtracting

Year 2 subtracting multiples of 10 from 2-digit numbers Children are expected to make a great deal of progress with subtraction in Year 2, but care must be taken to ensure that this new work is built on solid foundations. At this age most subtraction will still be done orally....