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to keep our content available through a partnership with another educational provider, but this provider has since withdrawn from the agreement.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 mini-whiteboards?
What are mini-whiteboards?
Mini-whiteboards are A4-sized wipe-clean surfaces. Most schools will ensure that each child in a class is provided with a mini-whiteboard and whiteboard pen.
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Mini-whiteboards are usually used during the whole-class teaching part of the lesson. The purpose of them is to ensure that children are properly engaged in a lesson. For example: if a teacher is teaching children how to multiply numbers by 10, they may put three numbers on the board:
4 9 20
and then ask the children to multiply these numbers by 10 on their whiteboards. Using whiteboards means that every child is the class is being asked to engage in an activity. The alternative is that a few children will work out the answer to the above, but many children may not be engaged at all.
A further purpose of using whiteboards is to allow teachers to quickly assess how well their class is grasping a concept. For example: with the above task, the teacher may notice that many children are not able to multiply 20 by 10, so the next step could be to ask a child who can do it to demonstrate how to do this.
Mini-whiteboards may also be used in literacy. For example: if a teacher is carrying out a shared writing session where they are writing about a goblin, they may say that they need some good words to describe the goblin and ask the children to write these on their whiteboards then hold them up.
Mini-whiteboards are a good way of encouraging children who are lacking in confidence to put forward more of their ideas. For example: if a teacher notices a less able or less confident child has written a good word, she or he could point that out to the class and then use the word as part of the shared writing.
