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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.
Spelling patterns: the suffix -phobia matching puzzle
The suffix ‘phobia’ means ‘fear’. Look up these words in the dictionary and find out what fear they relate to, then match them correctly. Copy out each word to practise spelling it. What other unusual phobias can you discover?
Year 5 maths booster pack
Rounding speed challenges, zoo subtraction problems, spotting square numbers and a little bit of pizza maths... it's all included in the Year 5 maths booster pack, designed to help your child practise and revise the key KS2 maths skills they've learned at school.
Y5 English booster pack
From apostrophes to spelling mnemonics, prefixes to synonyms, the Year 5 English booster pack is bursting with revision activities to help consolidate and build on your child's literacy learning. And there's plenty of cutting and sticking, word searching, thesaurus checking and script writing to be done along the way!
Y4 English booster pack
Put Y4 literacy skills and knowledge into practice the fun way with wordsearches, mix and match activities, play scripts and more - a great way to revise over the summer holidays to prepare for the challenges of the next school year.
Year 4 maths booster pack
From number sequences and rounding to subtracting with the partitioning or column methods, the Year 4 maths booster pack will help your child consolidate key mathematical skills and knowledge in a quick daily practice session - and offer some fun revision problems and activities to try.
Shaped number puzzle
Have a look at this repeating pattern of shapes and see if you can answer these tricky questions.
Percentage problem
Two teams of children are taking part in a bowling contest. There are five children on each team. Each child has ONE go at knocking down the ten skittles. Have a look at the results for each team and see if you can answer the questions.
Area explained
Area is the name we use for the amount of space a surface or 2D shape takes up. You could measure the area of a small space like a table or a big space like the school field. We measure area in square units. Have a look at these shapes. Can you work out what area in cm2 they have?
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!
Multiples of 6 card puzzle
Using the digits 0 to 6, how many different two-digit multiples of 6 can you make? You'll need to be methodical in your working out to get them all!
Completing a symmetrical shape
The line down the middle of a symmetrical shape (the same on both sides) is called the line of symmetry. The grid on this worksheet shows a quarter of a shape that has two lines of symmetry. Can you complete the shape? Use a mirror to help if you need to.
Making multiples with digit cards
Use your knowledge of multiples to solve this tricky numbers puzzle. How quickly can you get to the solution?
Y2 English booster pack
Our Year 2 booster pack covers all the main literacy topics your child will learn in Y2 – perfect to help your child prepare for KS1 SATs at the end of the school year or revise key concepts over the long summer break. Writing 'Missing' posters for favourite toys, devising menus, reviewing books, filling story treasure chests, teaching aliens to brush their teeth and more – this learning pack is bursting with fun activities to boost literacy.
Year 2 maths booster pack
Whether you're revising for KS1 SATs or keeping your child's maths learning on track over the summer holidays, our Year 2 maths booster pack covers all the main numeracy topics for Y2. Help them practise their skills with colourful worksheets - a daily session with pirates, sandcastles and wizards will consolidate multiplication, addition, rounding up, estimation and partitioning the fun way.
Experiments and science fun for KS1 and KS2
Beans, gingerbread men, ice, washing-up bottles and cocoa powder – that's all you need to demonstrate key KS1 and KS2 science concepts to your child at the kitchen table. Packed with simple experiments, fun games (Muffled Chinese Whispers, anyone?) and parent-friendly science explanations, our Experiments and science fun for KS1 and KS2 learning pack is all you need to make primary science come to life for your child.
School trip puzzle
40 children are going on a school trip. Can you help work out how much money is needed for tickets and lunch?
Making numbers from number cards
Cut out the number cards then see if you can match them to give the answers to these tricky problems.
Guess the number quick puzzles
Are you smart enough to work out this number puzzle? Challenge mum or dad and see if they can do it quicker than you.
Fractions problem
Rendham Village have held their annual dance. By the end of the day, they have made £500. Can you help them work out how to split the money between their chosen charities?
Follow instructions to draw shapes
Can you follow these instructions and draw these shapes with right angles, sides and parallel lines?