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What stores and transfers energy?
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be transferred from one store into another. In these pictures, which items do you think use energy? Which ones store energy? Do they all store/use the same type of energy? Cut them out and sort them into groups.
Understanding friction: Build your own balloon hovercraft
When a moving surface slides on a stationary surface it rubs against it, which slows it down. This is due to friction, a force which resists the movement of one object sliding past another. Understand more about friction with a fantastic practical project: make your own balloon hovercraft!
Super scientist quiz
Quiz questions to encourage your child to think about how scientists work and why they do the things they do.
Reaching conclusions
A worksheet showing results of an experiment with questions underneath to consider.
Writing the time to the half hour
Your child will learn to tell the time to the hour and half hour in Year 1. Boost their confidence with some practical half-past-the-hour practice.
Writing the time to the hour
Use this worksheet to consolidate Y1 time-telling skills. Your child will need to write in the correct clock hands on each blank clock face, remembering to make the hour hand and the minute hand the right size.
Writing time (hour and half hour)
Once your child has mastered telling the time to the hour and half hour help them revise with this practice worksheet, packed with blank clock faces to complete correctly.
Writing time: your day on the clock
The best way to teach your child to tell the time is to relate it to real life. Help them understand how time governs their day with this matching worksheet; they'll need to complete the clock faces to show when they get up, go to school, eat and sleep.
Understanding clock faces to the half hour
Help your child practise their time-telling skills (to the half hour) by drawing hours and minutes hands onto blank clock faces.
Match digital and analogue time to the hour
A great practice activity for newly confident clock-watchers: can they match the digital and analogue clocks which show the same time?
Matching the time: half past
A colourful worksheet to help your child practise telling the time to the half hour with a matching activity. Suitable for Y1 learners.
Reading the time to the half hour
Can your child read the time to the half hour on these clock faces and write it in words? A simple telling-the-time practice worksheet for children in Y1.
More reading the time to the hour
Help your child practise reading the time on a clock face and then writing it in words with this simple worksheet, suitable for Y1 children who are beginning to learn to tell the time.
Reading comprehension pack (KS2): The Stolen Book of Spells
Reading comprehension doesn't have to be dull! The Stolen Book of Spells offers KS2 students an engaging story, challenging questions and a riddle to solve – they'll be so immersed in the narrative they won't even realise they're working on their literacy. Answers are provided so you can mark your child's work and help them improve their ability to comprehend, decode and interpret what they read.
Jubilee wordsearch
Get into the Jubilee holiday spirit with a royal wordsearch! There are corgis, flags and a flotilla hidden in this puzzle – how quickly can you find them all?
Phonics games
Your child will do lots of phonics learning at school – so why not use games to help them put their new skills into practice at home? Our Phonics games learning pack, created by a KS1 teacher (and parent), offers ten games and activities to choose from. Everything you need to start playing, from instructions to game boards and a sound die, is included in your download – print off your bingo counters, sharpen your pencils and have some fun!
Order the months of the year
Can your child recite the months of the year in the correct order? Help them practise with this simple cutting and sorting activity.
Order the days of the week
A simple cutting and sorting activity to help your child learn the correct order of the days of the week.
Decimals made simple
Do you dread decimals? Don't! Our Decimals made simple learning pack aims to take you through every aspect of primary-school decimal learning, from using decimal notation in money and measurements to converting fractions to decimals and rounding decimals to the nearest whole number. As well as a year-by-year guide to what your child learns you'll be able to complete 35 worksheets with your child to help them put their decimals knowledge into practice. And why not end a study session with a quick decimal game? Use the number spinner provided to try your hand at making the biggest (or smallest) decimal number, or speed-racing some decimal multiplication or division.
Gifted and talented learning activities for KS1 and KS2
Looking for some really original, exciting learning activities to try out at home? Our Gifted and talented pack presents 30 fascinating, involving projects to get stuck into, all linked to the national curriculum for 5- to 11-year-olds and designed to get your child (and you!) thinking, creating and loving learning.
Reading the time to the hour
Reading time to the hour on an analogue clock: a simple worksheet for children who are beginning to learn to tell the time correctly in year 1.
Verbal and non-verbal reasoning: an introduction
If your child is in the last years of primary school you might be thinking about selection tests like the Eleven Plus and how to prepare for them. To help you decide on your approach we've put together an introduction to verbal and non-verbal reasoning, with expert tips, advice and practice questions and answers for you and your child.
Easter wordsearch
How quickly can you find the Easter-themed words hidden in this wordsearch? Have fun!
Easter crossword
Eggs, buns, flowers and bunnies - and chocolate, of course! Prepare for the school holidays by testing your knowledge of all things Easter-related with this quick crossword.