Free New Year worksheets

Free New Year worksheets Only a couple of days until New Year’s Eve and the next week is a great time to reflect on the past and look forward to the new. Our fantastic New Year worksheets, including New Year’s Resolutions, are now all available for the next week absolutely...

New urbrainy ipad games

New urbrainy ipad games Number Y1 Maths App Don’t forget we have just launched an iPad app full of fun activities on Number for Year 1. The app allows our iPad fans to play these games without the need of an internet connection or even a subscription to URBrainy.com. The...

Year 5 mental subtraction

[caption id="attachment_8622" align="alignleft" width="150"] subtract mentally large numbers[/caption] Year 5 mental subtraction A key aspect of subtraction in year 5 is to, ‘subtract numbers mentally with increasingly large numbers’. Of course, there comes a point where it is much more sensible to use written methods of subtraction, but it is...

Christmas Maths worksheets

[caption id="attachment_4973" align="alignleft" width="212"] christmas maths worksheets[/caption] An early Christmas present: free Christmas Maths worksheets Less than two weeks to go to Christmas and there doesn’t seem to be much time left to do anything! To help during this busy period, as well as adding to the fun, we are...

Reading thermometers

Reading thermometers in Year 2 and 4 For the first time reading thermometers has been introduced for children in year 2. Now, as counting back beyond zero is not introduced until year 4 it is important to keep temperature measurements at zero or above for children in year 2. We...

Adverbial phrases

Adverbial phrases The new primary curriculum talks quite a lot about adverbs, fronted adverbials, adverbials of time and so on; a part of English grammar which has not been emphasised over the last 30 years. To meet the new requirements we are now building a substantial set of resources on...