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to keep our content available through a partnership with another educational provider, but this provider has since withdrawn from the agreement.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

Parallel lines
We explain what parallel means and how children are taught about shapes throughout KS1 and KS2.

What is parallel?

Parallel lines are straight lines that always stay the same distance from each other and never meet:

When do children learn about parallel lines?

Children learn the names of shapes in Key Stage 1. They will be asked to describe and sort shapes.

In Year 3 they need to identify parallel and perpendicular lines..

Children need to continue to consolidate their knowledge of parallel lines in Years 4 and 5 with questions such as these:

Which of the following shapes has two sets of parallel lines?

(The answer is the second shape.)

In Year 6 they will be asked to draw 2D shapes to given dimensions, which will include parallel lines.
 

As part of their work on shape and space children are expected to know about horizontal lines, vertical lines, perpendicular lines and diagonal lines.