Year 6 Fractions Programme of Study (statutory requirements)

Year 6 Fractions Programme of Study We continue to add new resources to our Year 6 Fractions and have just published two sets of worksheets on multiplying and dividing fractions. By the end of Year 6 children will be expected to multiply simple pairs of proper fractions. This is relatively...

Year 5 Fractions Programme of Study (statutory requirements)

Year 5 Fractions Programme of Study There are some real challenges ahead for children working with fractions in Year 5. In the past this topic has been rather neglected for a variety of reasons, one of them being that teachers find it very hard to teach and tend to shy...

Apostrophes to show possession

Apostrophes to show possession Apostrophes are probably the most misused of all punctuation marks. This week we hope to clarify how apostrophes are used to show possession, with a great set of worksheets suitable for children in the middle to upper primary age range. Knowing how they came about may...

D Day worksheets

Tomorrow is June 6th, one of the most important dates in our history. Britain and her Allies had been at war for five years against Germany and her Axis alliance when the biggest invasion in history took place on June 6th 1944. Codenamed Operation Overlord, it began with what is...

Football World Cup worksheets

Football World Cup worksheets The FIFA World Cup starts next week in Brazil and what a brilliant opportunity it presents to investigate charts and tables as part of the Statistics (Data Handling) programme. We are excited to have just published a range of excellent pages which look at the World...

Ordering Numbers in Year 1

Updated Ordering Numbers in Year 1 Once children are happy with counting on and back in ones they can begin to order a set of small numbers and position them on a number line. Placing things in order can come up in many practical situations in school and at home,...