Year 1 Fractions

Year 1 FractionsFortunately the targets for children to achieve in Year 1 are sensible:• recognise, find and name a half as one of two equal parts of an object, shape or quantity. • recognise, find and name a quarter as one of four equal parts of an object, shape or...

Telling the Time in Year 2

Telling the Time in Year 2In Year 2 there is a great deal for children to understand about time. We have grouped our time worksheets into the following sub-categories, with plenty to choose from in each:• revise telling the time to the half hour• telling the time to a quarter...

Florence Nightingale’s 200th Anniversary

Florence Nightingale’s 200th AnniversaryProbably the most famous nurse ever known, Florence Nightingale was born into a wealthy English family on 12th May 1820 and studied nursing in London. In 1854 she was asked to take a team of nurses out to Scutari to nurse the wounded soldiers from the Crimean...

The Great Plague in Eyam

The Great Plague in Eyam Whilst most of the world is in lockdown, researchers have been looking to see if we can learn lessons from the sacrifices made by the people of the Derbyshire village of Eyam during the Great Plague of 1665. There have been many outbreaks of plague...

Year 5 Read and Write Numbers

Year 5 Read and Write NumbersBy the end of Year 5, children will be expected to read and write up to 6-digit numbers in both numerals and words. This is by no means an easy task when faced with writing in numerals a number such as six hundred and four...

English Comprehensions: American History

English Comprehensions: American HistoryThe pioneers were emigrants who travelled across the Great Plains of America to settle in the American West. Many of them were farmers and they moved to areas such as Oregon because land was cheap, or in some cases free, and it was believed to be very...