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Making sure your child has mastered the Year 6 maths syllabus is one of the most important things you can do to help your child achieve and exceed their targets through out their school life. The Parents’ Guide to Year 6 Maths can help you do just that, by giving you the confidence and knowledge to help your child with areas of the year 6 syllabus like geometry, fractions, or decimals.
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- eBook
By using the great techniques in this book, within 30 days your child will not only know their times tables but will be SINGING them! I Know My Times Tables has been developed exclusively for TheSchoolRun by deputy headteacher, Matt Revill, and writer of musicals and author, Bernadette Strachan.
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- eBook
Maths is a core skill within the primary national curriculum. As we use maths every day, it is also a vital skill for life. But, some of us still dread our child coming home and asking for help with their maths homework, as learning methods and terminology are sometimes different from how we were taught.
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- eBook
Help support your child's maths learning at home with a practical, targeted eBook. Division topics covered include division as the inverse of multiplication, the repeated subtraction method for division, chunking, worded problems, the short hand division method and dividing decimal numbers. As well as parents' notes on the theory your eBook contains lots of practical activities and games to help your child practise what they're learning at home.
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- eBook
Full stops, commas, semi colons, apostrophes… Whatever aspect of punctuation your child is grappling with, we’ve come up with a bumper pack of 60 activities to help them practise, as well as a parent's refresher guide to each punctuation mark and how it's used.
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- eBook
A beginner's guide to year 2 tests, the KS1 SATs success pack explains everything you need to know about how your child will be tested, teacher assessment, SATs levels, how the results are used and why you don't need to worry! You'll also find 26 activities to help support your child's learning at home with games and fun, so get your SATs preparation started today.
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- eBook
Handwriting, spelling and punctuation – that's what your child will be practising with the KS2 English booster pack (Y5-6), but there's no drilling involved when there are playscripts to be written (and performed?), persuasive letters to compose (Dear Headteacher, please could we have a climbing frame for the playground?) and newspaper articles to type up. Your child might actually ask to put pen to paper!
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- eBook
Make numbers part of everyday life with the KS2 maths (Years 5 & 6) booster pack. One worksheet a day offers practice and revision, and the varied activities (spotting mystery shapes, solving puzzles and surveying family and friends to find out what the most popular Olympic sport is) will keep kids' brains active and engaged.
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- eBook
Our hugely popular SATs eBook is back in its third edition. SATs: Practice Makes Perfect has been written especially for all parents whose children are due to sit their SATs. In plain, straightforward language it tells you everything you need to know to help your child prepare for their exams, covering both Key Stage 1 and 2.
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- eBook
Before children are able to start writing letters and words their hands and muscles need to practise producing patterns of all kinds. By the time they start school most children will be able to copy patterns very accurately, from horizontal and vertical lines to circles and diagonal lines. This Handwriting patterns playbook offers your child the opportunity to practise common writing patterns in preparation for handwriting letters at age 4 or 5.
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- eBook
Crosswords, wordsearches and Sudoku for KS1 and KS2 – perfect for keeping them entertained during long journeys and bored moments.
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- eBook
How confident would you feel if your child asked:
“Mum, what’s 345.89 X 22.23?”
or what if they wanted your help with this homework question:
What is 5.6 metres plus 44 millimetres?
If you’re panicking just looking at these questions – don’t worry. Written specifically to help parents support their child’s learning at home, Decimals made simple contains everything you need to make sense of decimals for your Key Stage 2 child – all presented in a fun, engaging and effective way.
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- eBook
Geometry is better known in primary schools nowadays as ‘Shape and Space’. Shape work focuses on 2D and 3D shapes; by the end of the primary curriculum children have a solid knowledge of a large number of shapes and their characteristics. This pack of activities is full of hands-on activities that will help children to name, sort and classify shapes before moving onto topics such as area, perimeter, angles and symmetry.
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- eBook
Help support your child's maths learning at home with a practical, targeted eBook. Multiplication topics covered include times tables, arrays, multiplication as repeated addition, worded problems, the grid method, partitioning, the long multiplication method and multiplying decimal numbers. As well as parents' notes on the theory your eBook contains lots of practical activities and games to help your child practise what they're learning at home.
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- eBook
This indispensable guide will help you and your child successfully manage the important transition from the cosy world of primary school to the bigger world of secondary school. A Parent's Guide to Secondary School takes you through everything you need to know about secondary school, from deciding which schools to apply for, through the application and appeals process, to supporting your child in the first weeks and months in their new school.
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- eBook
Literacy – reading, writing and thinking about the written word – is hugely important to your child’s primary school education and additional support at home is vital to ensure their success. If helping with English homework isn’t your forte, the Literacy Homework Helper will be a reference guide you’ll refer back to constantly.
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- eBook
Make sure your child gets the very best opportunities to succeed and flourish with this practical toolkit of checklists, templates and make-or-break advice.
The Dyslexia Toolkit for Parents is a brand-new ring-binder toolkit of practical resources that you will be able to pull out over the coming years to support and assist you through the various challenges of dealing with the schools, the authorities... and the many decisions you will have to make in order to best help your child.
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- eBook
Grammar Made Easy is for every parent who wants their primary child to do well at school, to see them gain top marks for grammar and punctuation and use language as a door to future opportunities.
Each chapter of the eBook focuses on a specific area – such as tenses or apostrophes – and provides clear, simple explanations of rules to remember, plus examples of what’s right, what’s wrong and why. Then, there are quiz questions to recap and check that your child has understood everything.
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- eBook
Number bonds... counting in ‘hops’... using grids and number lines... this is the norm for our kids, but it means very little to us. That's because maths lessons today take on a rather different form to those from our own school days. Forget tedious hours of solving endless sums; The Parents' Guide to Year 2 Maths, packed with great maths games and activities, will guide you through everything you need to know for maths in Year 2 and help your child towards KS1 SATs success.
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- eBook
Spelling Made Magic is a brilliant resource bursting with a variety of games, activities and strategies that will get your child learning to spell in a way you've never imagined before, whatever their age or ability.
Together, you'll use all of your senses – sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste – and everyday objects such as chocolate cake and glitter to help your child remember the correct spelling of a word.




















