Year 2: Position and Direction

Much of the work on Position and Direction in the Year 2 Programme of Study involves turning. Turns can be described in terms of right angles for quarter, half and three-quarter turns (clockwise and anti-clockwise) but they can also be described in terms of left and right. There are plenty...

Year 1 Money on-screen activities

Year 1 Money on-screen activitiesOn-screen activities are a great way to strengthen and support children’s learning and counting small amounts of coins is an ideal topic. Whether it is just counting one type of coin (e.g. 1p coins or 2p coins) or finding the total of different coins (e.g. 1p...

Summer Time and Easter

Summer Time and Easter The clocks have gone forward and Easter is just around the corner! What better time to remind you of our great Easter maths worksheets which are completely free (they don’t count towards credits used, either as a member or whilst on trial.) The first sets of...

Active and Passive sentences

Active and Passive sentences In a passive sentence what would usually be the object of the sentence is turned into the subject. Here is a sentence: Tom hit the ball. The subject is Tom and the object is the ball. This is called the active voice. Turn this round so...

Comparing numbers in Year 1

Comparing numbers in Year 1 A key target in Year 1 is for children to use their knowledge of numbers up to 20 to compare two or three numbers. Terms such as larger/smaller and largest/smallest should be understood and used with confidence. At first children might need a variety of...

KS1 Maths SATs Past Papers

KS1 Maths SATs Past Papers The Key Stage 1 Mathematics test seems rather irrelevant in the current situation but parents might like to see how well their children would have done in the tests. It is made up of two papers, an Arithmetic Paper and a Reasoning Paper and they...