TheSchoolRun.com closure date
As we informed you a few months ago, TheSchoolRun has had to make the difficult decision to close due to financial pressures and the company has now ceased trading. We had hoped to keep our content available through a partnership with another educational provider, but this provider has since withdrawn from the agreement.
As a result, we now have to permanently close TheSchoolRun.com. However, to give subscribers time to download any content they’d like to keep, we will keep the website open until 31st July 2025. After this date, the site will be taken down and there will be no further access to any resources. We strongly encourage you to download and save any resources you think you may want to use in the future.
In particular, we suggest downloading:
- Learning packs
- All the worksheets from the 11+ programme, if you are following this with your child
- Complete Learning Journey programmes (the packs below include all 40 worksheets for each programme)
You should already have received 16 primary school eBooks (worth £108.84) to download and keep. If you haven’t received these, please contact us at [email protected] before 31st July 2025, and we will send them to you.
We are very sorry that there is no way to continue offering access to resources and sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused.
Best Christmas learning websites for children
Best for coding fun: Google Santa Tracker
The Google Santa Tracker offers educational activities for every age: learn to code with the elves in Code Lab and Code Boogie, find out how the world celebrates the season with quizzes, get creative with games like Snowbox, Elf Maker and Santa Selfie and read an interactive storybook about Ollie the Narwhal celebrating under the sea. It's all free, beautifully designed and great fun.
Download your child's festive activity pack now!
- KS1 & KS2 packs
- Christmas-themed English, maths and science activities
- Perfect activity pack to keep kids busy and learning over the Christmas break
Best for Christmas maths: Topmarks
From decorating virtual jumpers and sequencing festive patterns to finding mirror symmetry in Christmas images, the Topmarks interactive Christmas games will offer your child the chance to practise their counting, matching and ordering skills the December way! All the games are free, colourful and easy to play on a tablet or desktop computer.
Best for Christmas stories: Storynory
Storynory is the largest archive of free children’s audiobooks online and there are loads of festive tales to listen to, from the classic poem The Night Before Christmas to A Christmas Carol (retold for children as a mini-play) and Storynory exclusive Christmas stories. There are more 600 audio stories on the site – hours of free entertainment if your child enjoys curling up and listening to a beautifully told tale.
Best for Christmas wordplay: Woo! Jr. Kids Activities
A brilliant set of Christmas fill in the blank stories (or word puzzle ad libs) to help get everyone in the festive spirit. How silly, original or contradictory can you be in your word choices? Which family member can come up with the most bizarre stories? Fill-the-blank word puzzles are a great way to boost your child's vocabulary and understanding of the different parts of speech. Free to download and print.
Best for printable worksheets: TheSchoolRun festive fun learning packs
Packed with presents, elves, reindeer, snow and Santa, TheSchoolRun's Festive fun activities for KS1 and Festive fun activities for KS2 will keep kids busy and learning over the Christmas break. For Y1 and Y2 there are letters to Santa to write, presents to count and a Christmas model village to build. Older kids have present-delivery schedules to work out, Grotto problems to solve and light and dark experiments to try.
If you are a TheSchoolRun subscriber the packs are free to download as part of your subscription, but they can also be purchased for £3.95 each in TheSchoolRun Bookshop.
