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Important update from TheSchoolRun
For the past 13 years, TheSchoolRun has been run by a small team of mums working from home, dedicated to providing quality educational resources to primary school parents. Unfortunately, rising supplier costs and falling revenue have made it impossible for us to continue operating, and we’ve had to make the difficult decision to close. The good news: We’ve arranged for another educational provider to take over many of our resources. These will be hosted on a new portal, where the content will be updated and expanded to support your child’s learning.
What this means for subscribers:
- Your subscription is still active, and for now, you can keep using the website as normal — just log in with your usual details to access all our articles and resources*.
- In a few months, all resources will move to the new portal. You’ll continue to have access there until your subscription ends. We’ll send you full details nearer the time.
- As a thank you for your support, we’ll also be sending you 16 primary school eBooks (worth £108.84) to download and keep.
A few changes to be aware of:
- The Learning Journey weekly email has ended, but your child’s plan will still be updated on your dashboard each Monday. Just log in to see the recommended worksheets.
- The 11+ weekly emails have now ended. We sent you all the remaining emails in the series at the end of March — please check your inbox (and spam folder) if you haven’t seen them. You can also follow the full programme here: 11+ Learning Journey.
If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected]. Thank you for being part of our journey it’s been a privilege to support your family’s learning.
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Investigative skills worksheets
Understanding light and dark
A worksheet designed to help your child investigate and understand light and dark.
Time to investigate floating
An opportunity for your child to design their own investigation to find out which materials float.
Experimenting with pitch
Suggestions for activities to try at home to help your child investigate factors that affect pitch.
Understand sound and hearing
Your child will have tons of fun doing this experiment whilst learning all about sound and hearing.
Which is the best insulator?
An experiment for children to do at home, which will illustrate the meaning of insulation.
Make a bottle instrument
An activity to encourage children to think about how the amount of air in an instrument affects the pitch it makes.
What material is it made of?
Your child will develop their knowledge of materials and their properties with this fun to do worksheet.
Comparing data
A worksheet showing results of an experiment into soil permeability with questions for children to answer.
Predictions and conclusions: changing state
A worksheet describing a prediction regarding changing state with questions for children to think about, using their investigative skills.
Be a scientist
This activity will develop your child's imagination and design skills.
What plants need to grow
An experiment that combines having fun with learning all about what plants need to grow.
Good and bad scientists
A list of statements for children to look through and decide which are true of good scientists.
Predictions and conclusions: keeping healthy
A worksheet with predictions for an experiment into heart rates to test children on their investigative skills.
Find and label materials
This activity will teach your child the different properties of many common materials and help them identify why they are used.
What plants need to grow part 2
Following on from part 1 of the experiment, this further develops your child's knowledge of healthy plant growth and encourages their skills of comparison and conclusion.
Growing diary data
A worksheet showing results of an investigation into how different soils affect the growth of plants.
Predictions and conclusions: life cycles
A worksheet showing the predictions and conclusions of an experiment into life cycles. Includes questions to encourage children to use their investigative skills.
Identify the loudest sound
A fabulous game to encourage discussion and develop your child's reasoning skills whilst learning more about sounds.
Designing for a purpose
Let your child use their imagination to create a camouflage outfit, helping them explore ideas about designing for a purpose.
Plan a scientific investigation
This worksheet encourages children to read through a plan of an investigation and decide where the problems might be.