Other subjects worksheets
Summer brain-boosting challenges
Juggle fruit. Work on the technology of the future. Plot and design a lost city, create a zoo of invented animals, learn to talk sdrawkcab and bake a pizza clock and a pastry map. How many of our wonderful brain-boosting challenges can you fit into your summer? All you need are some art materials, imagination and an enquiring mind to have a go at a whole host of practical and reflective activities, suitable for primary-school children (and parents, of course). Have fun!
Reading compass directions
Welcome to Skull Rock! Use the map to find your way around. Can you read the compass directions and answer these questions?
Labelling and describing words
Draw a picture of a family member then label it and add some words to describe them around the picture.
St Andrews Day crossword puzzle
Test your knowledge of all things Scottish, and see how long it takes you to solve this quick crossword!
UK cities wordsearch
Can you find all of these cities in this very challenging wordsearch? How many have you been to?
Geography: Capital cities
Develop your child's geography and research skills by asking them to use an atlas to identify places. Can they then write about their dream holiday destinations, explaining why they'd like to visit?
Designing for a purpose
Let your child use their imagination to create a camouflage outfit, helping them explore ideas about designing for a purpose.
Read simple maps
This downloadable worksheet will help your child to work on writing simple instructions.
Design a toy
Work with your child to draw a design for a toy using labels. Your child can then make the toy and invite someone to play-test it.
Draw a route map
This worksheet encourages your child to think about and draw the journey they take to school with sense of 'aerial perspective'.
What is good food?
A cutting and sticking activity to help children understand which foods belong to which group.
Listen carefully to sounds
This worksheet explores descriptive sounds and encourages your child to take a 'sound walk' and record and reproduce what they hear.
Materials to build a house
This worksheet encourages children to think about what materials they would need to build a house and why.
Draw a local map
Worksheet with pictures to encourage your child to draw a map of the place where they live.
Primary and secondary sources
How do we find out about the past? What evidence is available to us, and how can we research events that happened over 100 years ago? This worksheet will help your child develop an understanding of the passing of time and encourage them to think historically.
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.
Be a scientist
This activity will develop your child's imagination and design skills.
Talking about choices
A fun worksheet where your child can talk and write about their preferences for unusual situations.
Design a healthy living poster
An activity to help your child identify ways to lead a healthy life.
Make a spinning top game
This activity encourages your child to explore probability, by answering questions on some given results and then making their own spinning top.