Measuring Length in Year 3

Children are introduced to millimetres in Year 3 and they will understand that millimetres can be used to measure lengths that are not an exact number of centimetres. Measurement should be recorded as a number of centimetres and millimetres e.g. ‘the pencil is 6 cm and 4 mm long’.Children are...

Measuring Length in Year 4

More work is done with measuring using kilometres this year, using the knowledge that there are 1,000 metres in a kilometre.Converting between units is an important part of the Year 4 Programme of Study for Measurement. For instance, children should be able to convert kilometres to metres or centimetres to...

Measurement in Year 5

The metric system takes centre stage in the Year 5 Measurement Programme of Study, emphasising the importance of converting between different units of metric measures. By the end of Year 5 children should know the following relationships between metric units:*1 kilometre = 1,000 metres**1 metre = 100 centimetres or 1,000...

Measurement in Year 6

There are some very hard concepts involved with Measurement in Year 6. Conversion of units of measurement continues to be a key element, and it is suggested that converting between units such as kilometres and miles is done graphically. Converting metric units should be done with up to 3 decimal...

Year 1 New Resources: Counting in the Teens

An important stage in children’s progress with number is when they progress from counting up to ten to counting in the teens and beyond. Plenty of practice counting verbally up to 20 is needed as the numbers do not repeat the pattern of counting up to ten. In particular, children...

Year 2 New Resources: Multiplication

Before children can make progress with multiplication they need to understand and recognise equal groups. An important part of this is to identify when groups are not equal and to explain why. We have just published 4 new sets of worksheets on recognising equal groups, providing plenty of practice; a...