Addition in Year 4

There are no specific targets for mental addition in Year 4 but that does not mean to say that the topic can be ignored. As children start to add 4-digit numbers using written methods it is vital that the skills and knowledge learned in previous years are continuously reinforced. For...

Addition in Year 5

Just the one target for Year 5 in the National Curriculum:Add numbers mentally with increasingly large numbers.This is rather vague, but in Year 5 children are expected to work with numbers with more than 4 digits, which would include numbers up to millions. This is hard and it is important...

Addition in Year 6

No particular targets for Year 6 for mental addition but children are expected to be quick and accurate with adding, including working with very large numbers.Three particular skills which children should be using are:Partitioning including crossing place value boundaries e.g. 49 + 38. It is often easier to start by...

New English: Capital Letters and Commas for Lists

Three new sets of worksheets for Lower KS1 grammar have been published this week. They cover capital letters for days of the week, capital letters for months of the year and an introduction to using commas in lists. Perfect for young children who are meeting these aspects of grammar for...

Year 6 Football World Cup Free Activities

6 great fun topics on the World Cup have just been published and they are all free. Many of these deal with large numbers, including millions, e.g. populations of competing countries, and are therefore most suited to Year 6 children.The topics are:Populations of World Cup Teams. Placing the teams in...

Year 5 Angle

New this week some quite hard angle calculations. Children will need to know that the angles on a straight line add up to 180 degrees and angles about a point add up to 360 degrees. It will also be helpful to know that a pair of vertically opposite angles are...