Year 6 formal written methods of multiplication

Year 6 formal written methods of multiplication It is very easy to assume that children in year 6 (aged 10/11) will be proficient with long multiplication. However, many children in Year 6 will still be unsure of the formal written method of multiplication and will need a great deal of...

Year 5-6 word list

Year 5-6 word list One of the more controversial parts of the new primary curriculum is the list of 100 words children are expected to learn in years 5 and 6. Discussions could go on for ever as to the validity of this list, but we have to ignore this...

Year 2: four rules practice

New for Year 2: four rules practice Most of our Year 2 resources so far have been designed to provide practice on one specific topic, but life tends to be far more mixed up than this, so we have just published a new category of mixed questions, covering all of...

Story writing certificates

Story writing certificates Latest news: new writing certificates! Our spelling certificates are one of our most popular sets of resources and we have had several requests for other types of English certificate. So here they are: a brand new set of story writing certificates. Bright and colourful they are an...

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...