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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to keep our content available through a partnership with another educational provider, but this provider has since withdrawn from the agreement.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:

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 is a DUMTUM?

What is a DUMTUM?
Find out what a DUMTUM is and how this technique will help your child to set out their work correctly.

What is a DUMTUM?

Teachers often have a particular way that they prefer children to set out their work.

DUMTUMs are a way of reminding children how to present their work. The letters stand for:

Date
Underline
Miss a line
Title
Underline
Miss a line
Start

This is a good way to get children into the habit of presenting their work well. Often children will 'bunch up' their writing or spread it out too much. If they have this rule to follow they are being made aware of how to present their work well, which will hopefully become a habit.

Some teachers have these instructions on a poster next to the board, so that children are constantly reminded of how to set out their work.

Often, schools will make sure that all their teachers follow the same method for teaching children how to present their work, therefore expectations for presentation of work are kept consistent throughout a child's time at primary school and children will get into the habit of doing this from an early age.