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to keep our content available through a partnership with another educational provider, but this provider has since withdrawn from the agreement.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.
How to make your garden bird-friendly
Mark Boyd, Youth Manager at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has these tips for encouraging birds to stop outside your home, whether you have a plant-filled garden or a few pots on the balcony:
Download fantastic science resources today!
- Experiments And Science Fun pack
- Science Learning Programme for each school year
- All the instructions, questions and information you need
- Place varying types of bird feeders with different food around the garden to attract as many different bird species as you can.
- Make sure your feeding station is easily visible from your favourite window so that you can fully enjoy watching the birds.
- Attach stickers to the outside of your window to reduce the chance of birds flying into them.
- Choose and grow native varieties of plants in your garden, because they tend to be better for insects (which are another form of bird food!).
- Don’t be in a rush to tidy up the garden after your plants have stopped flowering. Seed heads are valuable sources of food in themselves, and good refuges for mini-beasts.
- Always make sure clean, fresh water is available at ground level for birds and visiting mammals to drink and bathe in.
- Put up a range of nestboxes so you don’t have all one type. Birds are territorial and won’t tolerate others of the same species nesting too close.
- Make your own bee houses and bug hotels to keep your garden insect-friendly, which helps to support the food chain!
Some of the birds you may spot in a garden in the UK
The RSPB suggests lots more ways to encourage more wildlife to visit your garden.
Are you involved in the Big Schools’ Birdwatch event? Students all over the country are counting the birds in their school grounds, and submitting the results to RSPB.
