TheSchoolRun.com closure date

As we informed you a few months ago, TheSchoolRun has had to make the difficult decision to close due to financial pressures and the company has now ceased trading. We had hoped to keep our content available through a partnership with another educational provider, but this provider has since withdrawn from the agreement.

As a result, we now have to permanently close TheSchoolRun.com. However, to give subscribers time to download any content they’d like to keep, we will keep the website open until 31st July 2025. After this date, the site will be taken down and there will be no further access to any resources. We strongly encourage you to download and save any resources you think you may want to use in the future.

In particular, we suggest downloading:

Learning packs
All the worksheets from the 11+ programme, if you are following this with your child
Complete Learning Journey programmes (the packs below include all 40 worksheets for each programme)

You should already have received 16 primary school eBooks (worth £108.84) to download and keep. If you haven’t received these, please contact us at [email protected] before 31st July 2025, and we will send them to you.

We are very sorry that there is no way to continue offering access to resources and sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused.

Optional SATs papers: Y5 English set A

A Year 5 English mock optional SATs paper, written by a primary-school teacher to mirror the official Y5 English optional SATs papers used in schools prior to 2016 to assess pupils' progress. Exclusively available to TheSchoolRun subscribers, for immediate download.

Keystage: KS2, Year 5

Although official, externally-assessed SATs only take place at the end of each Key Stage (in Year 2 and Year 6), up until 2015, some schools used optional SATs to assess children's progress in English and maths at the end of Years 3, 4 and 5. Only a very limited number of official optional SATs papers are available to parents for at-home use (you can download them for free from TheSchoolRun), so we commissioned our own 'mock' papers.

In 2016, new SATs exams were introduced, in line with the new National Curriculum. These mock papers are based on the 'old-style' optional SATs, but can still be used to offer your child extra practice opportunities and have been written to reflect the kind of questions they'll find in the official papers.

Year 5 English optional SATs, set A includes:

Y5 English Reading paper, Story text (A world of dragons, The Daily Myth!)
Reading Answer booklet
Year 5 English Writing Assessment (Meeting George the Dragon Slayer, Dragon owner’s manual)
Answers and mark scheme

All the papers and marking materials have been merged into one easy download.

SATs in KS1 and KS2: Year 2 and Year 6 assessments

You'll find answers to all your questions about SATs in Year 2 in Your KS1 SATs questions answered.

To download Year 6 official SATs papers, and read about the latest changes to the KS2 SATs and find out more about the exam timetable read our information about KS2 SATs.

Download more Y5 English optional SATs papers

The official 2003 optional Y5 English SATs paper is also available to download, as well as another Y5 English optional SATs practice paper, set B.

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Worksheet finder

TheSchoolRun offers parents thousands of printable and interactive worksheets, covering every aspect of the primary curriculum. These are available to our subscribers but you can try a few for free here:

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In each interactive tutorial, our digital teacher explains the method, shows you examples and then gives you a chance to practise what you've learned. Find out more.

Tutorials are available to TheSchoolRun subscribers only but you can try for free: Learning the 4 times table, Long multiplication and Finding multiples

Learning pack finder

If there is a specific area of learning your child needs support with, our packs offer information, advice and plenty of engaging practical activities. Written by teachers and experts and exclusively available to TheSchoolRun subscribers, learning packs (each 50+ pages long) are fun as well as practice-packed.

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