Phonics Screening Check for Year 1/2

Parents of Year 2 children will soon be hearing from school about the phonic screening check their children should have taken last June when in Year 1. This is a check that teachers will make to show how well children can use phonic skills and to identify children who need...

Roman Gods (2)

Four more Roman Gods feature this week with short introductions and follow up ideas. Look out later in the year for stories related to Roman gods. NeptuneNeptune was the Roman god of the sea. He is similar to the Greek god Poseidon. He was the son of Saturn and Ops...

Year 6 Subtraction

Now for some quite tricky mental subtraction for Year 6 children. Working with 6 and 7 figure numbers to subtract is no easy task and the skills learnt in earlier years will be needed – for example counting on. One of the key aspects of this is to realise that...

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...