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TheSchoolRun gives you all the tools you need to understand what and how your child is learning at primary school.

Download English worksheets, maths worksheets and science worksheets to support your child's schoolwork at home, find out all about KS1 SATs and KS2 SATs (and download free SATs past papers), get to grips with new educational techniques and get free homework help and information.

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If you want to support your child’s learning at primary school with some extra practice at home, TheSchoolRun has thousands of resources for you to choose from. Use our Worksheet finder and select subject and year group to find the resources you need for your child.

Our free English worksheets cover phonics, spelling, handwriting, grammar, reading comprehension and more.

Our free maths worksheets for Reception, KS1 and KS2 offer activities and games to help with multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, times tables and all other areas covered in the national curriculum.

Our free primary science worksheets will help you revise key science concepts with hands-on experiments.

Find maths worksheets, English worksheets and science activities to support your child's learning at home. Filter your search by year group, subject (English, maths, science, SATs) and category.

We have hundreds of free worksheets and free SATs papers to download, plus subscriber-only learning packs, practice papers and activities for primary school children.

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Brand-new! We've just launched interactive tutorials. So far we've added maths tutorials, with English to follow. In each tutorial, our teacher will explain the method, show you examples and then give you a chance to practise what you've learned. Use the filters below to search by year group and category.

Tutorials are available to TheSchoolRun subscribers only but here are three you can try for free: Learning the 4 times table tutorial, Long multiplication tutorial and Finding multiples

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Baffled by bar charts? Confused by CVC words? Foxed by food webs? Puzzled by phrases (and programs!)?

TheSchoolRun's primary-school glossaries explain all the maths, English, grammar and science terms you need to know to support your child's learning at home. Find the term you want to read in our comprehensive list, then click through for a plain-English, parent-friendly guide packed with examples, teachers' tips and step-by-step explanations.

Need some help with a homework project?

From essential information to weird (but true!) facts, picture galleries, videos and more, TheSchoolRun’s Homework Gnome offers your child a fantastic launching pad for learning about the history, geography and science topics they’re covering in school.

Each national-curriculum area has been researched and presented in child-friendly language to help your child with at-home research.

The official SATs past test papers on TheSchoolRun can be downloaded for free and used to help with SATs revision. Parents' information and advice will improve your child’s chances of success in their exams and help you understand SATs and SATs results.

Free KS1 SATs past papers, advice and information for Year 2 parents
Free optional SATs past papers for Y3, Y4 and Y5
Free KS2 English, science and maths SATs papers (2003-2019), including the new KS2 Grammar, punctuation and spelling test
Free Level 6 past SATs papers (2012-2015) for English and maths (Y6 very able children)

Subscribers have access to exclusive TheSchoolRun practice papers for KS1 SATs, KS2 SATs and optional SATs.

Fractions? Punctuation? Telling the time? Handwriting?

If there’s a specific area of learning your child needs support with, our packs offer information, advice and plenty of engaging practical activities to help you. Written by teachers and experts and exclusively available to TheSchoolRun subscribers, learning packs (each 50+ pages long) are fun as well as practice-packed.

Browse all our learning packs or find out more about our subscriber offering.

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Looking for some screen-free, no-resources games to play at home or on the move? Primary school teacher Ivan Brett suggests word puzzles and number fun for the whole family in an extract from BORED? GAMES: 101 Games to Make Everyday More Playful. Pencil and paper at the ready!

4 screen-free boredom-busting activities

Why don't you put down that phone, turn off that tablet, switch off the television and do something less boring instead? Make a marshmallow catapult, create your own fingerprint kit, prepare a tornado in a bottle and amaze your friends with rainbow bubbles – just four of the electronics-free ideas in 100 Screen-free Ways to Beat Boredom!

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