Year 3 and 4 Time

Real progress is made with telling the time in Years 3 and 4. By the end of Year 3 children will be expected to know that there are 365 days in a year, 52 weeks and 12 months in a year, 7 days in a week and that a day...

Year 5: Angle

Two aspects of angle are important in Year 5. One is being able to measure angles using a protractor. Before children begin to measure angles using a protractor it is very important that they are able to recognise types of angles, especially less than 90 degrees, more than 90 degrees...

Algebra in Year 6

Whilst algebra has traditionally been part of the secondary school curriculum it now has a place in the Year 6 Programme of Study. The National Curriculum states that:Pupils should be taught to:use simple formulaegenerate and describe linear number sequencesexpress missing number problems algebraicallyfind pairs of numbers that satisfy an equation...

Vocabulary: Sayings Using Colours

As we look forward to a warm and sunny summer term we would like to highlight a great set of worksheets on common sayings which use colour. Our language contains a surprising number of these and children do need to understand their often quirky meanings. Examples of using the colour...

Adjectival Clauses

An adjectival clause adds more information about a noun by using a clause with a relative pronoun, such as ‘who’, ‘whom’, ‘which’, ‘that’ or ‘whose’. The adjectival clause follows the noun.This might sound tricky but is actually quite easy.Here is an example:The boy who was sitting in the park had...

Order of Adjectives

Much of the grammar we use on a daily basis is second nature to us; we do it correctly without even thinking about it. One such example is the order we use adjectives when putting two or more together to describe something.‘A white large hat’ sounds odd and indeed is...