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to keep our content available through a partnership with another educational provider, but this provider has since withdrawn from the agreement.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.
What are axes?
What are axes?
Using axes in diagrams and to plot coordinates
Children start looking at pictograms and bar charts in Key Stage 1. They will not be expected to name axes or understand what they are at this stage.
In Year 3, they will start to construct their own bar charts and pictograms. Some children will be given ready-drawn and labelled axes and more able children will just be given squared paper and asked to draw their chart from scratch.
In Year 4 children learn to read and plot coordinates on a grid with an x axis and a y axis.
As children move into upper Key Stage 2, they will be required to draw and label their own axes. For example, they may have collected the following information:
| Time | Length of my shadow / cm |
| 9am | 320cm |
| 10.30am | 190cm |
| 12 noon | 70cm |
| 1.30pm | 150cm |
| 3pm | 205cm |
- Faced with a squared A4 sheet of paper, they will need to think about whether it is best to have the paper landscape or portrait.
- They will need to draw their axes, making sure to leave plenty of space at the bottom and left-hand side for labelling.
- They will need to be aware that whenever time is involved, it goes along the horizontal axis.
- Since the times above are spaced evenly, they will need to space their five markings for each time evenly, making sure that they spread out the length of the horizontal axis so the graph is not too cramped.
- Before labelling the vertical axis, they will need to think about the highest value in the right hand column of their table. The highest value is 320cm, so it may be a good idea to mark the axis so it goes up to 350cm.
- The tricky bit is deciding what number to count up in and how they will mark these values on. Say their vertical axis is 15 squares high. They may decide to count up in 50s. Since there will be seven jumps from 0 to 350, it may be a good idea to mark each point every two lines.
Drawing up bar charts and graphs takes a lot of practice. Children may need plenty of support before they can do this on their own.
