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KS2 letter to father christmas

Handwriting practice: Letter to Father Christmas

Use your KS2 child's Christmas letter to Father Christmas as a fun opportunity to practise handwriting. The layout has been done for them, now all they need to do is write their Christmas list, name and address and pop it in the post (find Santa's address on the Royal Mail website!). This is a great activity to help children consider how to form letters correctly and there's plenty of space to include wished-for items. Writing this letter will also help them understand that letters have a purpose and a particular audience.
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Superstar Spelling Pack

Are you a Spelling Superstar? Test your abilities with this fun and challenging spelling pack. Practise high-frequency words, coding short and long vowels, contractions and homophones with these games and activities created by teacher and mum, Clare Winstanley.

Take your spelling to the next level, impress your classmates and boost your confidence with Superstar Spelling.

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Key Stage 2 - 2023 English SATs Papers

Help your child prepare for the Year 6 English SATs, taken at the end of Key Stage 2, with some revision and at-home practice. These KS2 SATs past papers from 2023 are the official past papers from the Department for Education, used in schools.
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Spelling words for Year 5

Spelling list for Year 5

Here is a list of words that cover the spelling rules children are expected to learn by the end of Year 5. How many can you spell?
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TheSchoolRun Year 5 worksheets taster pack

Year 5 worksheets taster pack

Find out what your child will learn in Year 5 English, maths and science, try out a few learning activities and read our top tips about how to support their learning and development in our free, downloadable Year 5 Taster Pack.
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Create your own wordsearch

Create your own wordsearch

Looking for a fun way to practise this week's spellings, or consolidate some new vocabulary? Use our blank wordsearch grid to create your own puzzle for your child (and you can print it out as many times as you need to!).
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Your 11 Plus Exam Prep Reading Adventure

Your 11+ Exam Prep Reading Adventure

Reading is an 11+ exam preparation superpower! Each of the 40 books in our 11+ exam prep reading adventure has been chosen to act as a story-filled portal to new vocabulary and will help your child get to grips with challenging texts the fun way – no flashcards required!
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11+ vocabulary flashcards

11+ vocabulary flashcards

Download our free 11+ flashcards to help boost your child's vocabulary and practise for the verbal reasoning tasks of the 11+ exams.
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Year 5 English Challenge Pack

Year 5 English Challenge Pack

Challenging reading comprehensions and activities for Year 5 readers and writers, designed to stretch your child and offer them the opportunity to explore their year-group topics in greater depth.
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Year 5 proofreading: formal and informal language

Year 5 proofreading: formal and informal language

Billy has written a letter to try to persuade his local council that a new park is needed in the area. The language is very informal. Do you think his letter will be taken seriously? Your task is to keep the ideas in the letter the same but rewrite it using the more appropriate formal language that is needed when writing a persuasive letter to someone you don’t know.
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Y5 and Y6 tricky spelling words worksheet

Y5 and Y6 tricky spelling words

Can you match up these tricky words to their correct definition? Use a dictionary to check if you’re not sure about their meaning, then use the Look, Cover, Write and Check method to learn to spell them.
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Y5 spelling: unstressed vowels worksheet

Y5 spelling: unstressed vowels

In these sentences, can you find the words with unstressed vowel sounds, underline them and circle the sound?
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Y5 and Y6 spelling wordsearch

Y5 and Y6 spelling wordsearch

Hidden in this wordsearch are some of the words from the Year 5/6 curriculum spelling list. Can you find them and highlight them?
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Spelling: double consonants revision worksheet

Spelling: double consonants revision

The spelling words below, from the Y5 and Y6 list, all include a double consonant. Can you cut out the cards and arrange them to make a whole word, matching the double consonant on the first card with the end sound on the second card?
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Proofreading: adding commas worksheet

Proofreading: adding commas

Look at these list sentences. Can you correct them by replacing the word “and” with commas? Remember, you need to use “and” before the last item in the list.
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Proofreading: adding brackets worksheet

Proofreading: adding brackets

Can you edit and improve each of these sentences by adding brackets (also called parentheses)?
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Making new words with suffixes and prefixes worksheet

Making new words with suffixes and prefixes

Look at the word list. Work out how many new words you can make by adding a prefix or suffix. Some of the words can have more than one prefix or suffix and be careful with the spelling as the words may change slightly!
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Improving writing with expanded noun phrases worksheet

Improving writing with expanded noun phrases

A noun phrase is a group of words that act in the same way as a noun. Expanded noun phrases improve a piece of writing by adding more information about the noun, making the text more interesting to read. Can you edit these sentences and improve them by matching them to one of the given expanded noun phrases?
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Apostrophes to mark contraction worksheet

Apostrophes to mark contraction

This text includes lots of words that could be shortened and replaced with an apostrophe (for example, I have = I’ve). This is called contraction. Circle all the words that could be shortened and write in the contraction.
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KS2 Easter activities pack

Get ready for some egg-y, chocolate-y, Easter-y fun! The KS2 Easter activities pack has plenty of themed maths, English and science learning opportunities to keep kids busy and learning over the spring break.
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