Years 1 and 2 composition: sentence writing

Years 1 and 2 composition: sentence writing. We have just published a lovely set of pages to help children with writing sentences. Each set has pages at 3 levels: •    completing sentences with words shown, using pictures as clues.; fun illustrations using dogs and cats are there to help. •    ...

Year 1 subtraction – intelligent practice

Year 1 subtraction – intelligent practice. Our recent ‘Addition – intelligent practice’ sets of worksheets have proved to be very popular and so we have moved forward the publication of a similar set of pages on subtraction. These are sets of four quick-fire mental questions which encourage children to think...

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...