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to keep our content available through a partnership with another educational provider, but this provider has since withdrawn from the agreement.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 is a Carroll diagram?
What is a Carroll diagram?
A Carroll diagram is used to organise data and group it according to whether it fits certain criteria.
In Key Stage 1 children begin to be taught about sorting and teachers may ask a child to sort a group of objects into two groups according to a given criteria. For example: children may be given a box of shapes and asked to sort them into two groups: 'Shapes with curved sides' and 'Shapes with straight sides'. Alternatively, they may be given some number cards and asked to sort them into odd and even numbers.
Using Carroll diagrams to sort data
Carroll diagrams take sorting data a step further, asking children to sort objects or numbers into four boxes. Each box has to follow two criteria. For example:
Sometimes, Carroll diagrams involve numbers. For example, children may need to sort the numbers 8, 22, 18, 49 and 100 into the following Carroll diagram:
It is a good idea to encourage children to deal with one number at a time. For example: look at the number 8 and then go through each of the criteria in turn to work out which box it should go in, then cross off number 8 from the list. Next look at 22 and do the same, and so on.
In a similar way to Venn diagrams, Carroll diagrams encourage children to sort data methodically, but also provide good revision for properties of shapes and number facts.
