Year 4 Geometry

Year 4 Geometry. The new geometry curriculum will certainly challenge children in Year 4. An important part of this is classifying 2-D and 3-D shapes and children will need to be aware that groups of shapes are often subsets of other shapes. For example, squares are part of the group...

Year 6 adding and subtracting mixed numbers

Year 6 adding and subtracting mixed numbers. Like most things in life, there is more than one way of adding mixed fractions. One way is to convert the numbers to improper fractions and find a common denominator and proceed from there. Some children find this very difficult so we have...

Report writing

Report writing We have just published our first set of planning sheets for helping children with report writing.  The four topics are: Car crash. Have they got talent? The mystery animal. The trainers. These four topics have been adapted from past Year 6 SAT papers, therefore are ideal for older...

Intelligent practice year 1

[caption id="attachment_8953" align="alignleft" width="150"] Intelligent practice year 1[/caption] Intelligent practice year 1 The new mathematics curriculum reflects the content of high achieving south-east Asian countries such as Singapore, Japan and South Korea. Part of this approach is what has become known as ‘intelligent practice’. This involves providing activities and practice...

Year 3-4 dictations for statutory word list

Year 3-4 dictations for statutory word list We have had several requests for more on the year 3/4 word-lists. Teaching the word-lists for years 3 and 4 is a statutory requirement. The words are a mixture of words pupils frequently use in their writing and those which they often misspell....

KS2 Arithmetic paper

KS2 Arithmetic paper: new this year The new national curriculum will be assessed for the first time in May 2016 and there is a whole new paper – the Arithmetic Paper! Paper 1 will be an arithmetic paper where the questions will be context free; in other words no word...