New: Apostrophes

Some people care passionately about the correct use of apostrophes; other people couldn’t care less, to the extent that some companies have removed the apostrophe altogether from their names, such as Waterstones, Currys and Harrods. Other businesses seem to put them everywhere. Market stall holders in particular love to use...

New: A Parenthesis

A parenthesis is a word or phrase inserted as an explanation or afterthought into a passage which is grammatically complete without it. Usually it is marked with dashes, commas or brackets (also known as parentheses). Our latest worksheets take a look at this in more detail.Download Now

Year 3 New: Time: Just a Minute

Some great new resources on estimating the time taken to do various tasks, and making decisions on whether to use seconds, minutes or hours are the topics for our latest sets of pages for Year 3. These are great additions to our super collection of resources on time. Download Now

Year 4 New Resources: Shape

A tricky task for Year 4 children; drawing shapes to match the descriptions given. Exact drawings should not be expected as children in this year group do not have the knowledge to draw many sided regular shapes. It is an interesting task and well worth watching to see how children...

Year 5 New Resources: Measurement

We have been using the metric system for measurements in the UK since we began to switch over in 1965 – well over 50 years ago. However, some people still use the old imperial system of measurements and some members of the Government are very keen on it, so children...

Year 1 New: Halving Chains

Some children become fascinated by numbers and their attributes which will lead them to ask, and try to solve, all kinds of questions. One such question could be ‘How many times can you halve a number whilst still keeping a whole number answer?’ It is not always the largest number.This...