Year 3 Converting Measurements

It is important in Year 3 that children have plenty of practice measuring using millimetres and centimetres. Part of this is to be able to convert from one to the other. For example, 34 mm can be converted to 3 cm and 4 mm. At this stage the decimal point...

Roman Gods

We have taken a slightly different approach to our latest topic, Roman Gods and Goddesses, providing a brief introduction to some of the better known figures and follow up work requiring further thinking or research. This week we look at four:Saturn was the king of the Roman gods and the...

Year 6 Algebra

Function machines are an excellent way to help children with the early stages of algebra. The number that is put into the machine is called the input and the number that comes out is called the output. The function machine will always carry out the same operations in the same...

Year 5 Angles on a straight line

Two brand new sets of pages for Year 5 which look at angles on a straight line. Both are very different; the first looks at calculating the angles on a straight line using the knowledge that the sum of the angles comes to 180 degrees. The second looks at measuring...

Year 4 Finding Fractions

Understanding fractions is a topic that requires a lot of practice and it is well worth going over concepts many times to make sure that children understand them. In Year 4 children need to explore fractions of shapes and quantities and through this, the meaning of the numerator and denominator....

Year 1 Number

New this week is a set of pages on part-whole models to help children understand numbers up to 20. This is just one set of a terrific collection of resources for Number in Year 1, covering in great detail the following:• Counting objects up to 10 and matching to numbers•...