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What stores and transfers energy?
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be transferred from one store into another. In these pictures, which items do you think use energy? Which ones store energy? Do they all store/use the same type of energy? Cut them out and sort them into groups.
Understanding friction: Build your own balloon hovercraft
When a moving surface slides on a stationary surface it rubs against it, which slows it down. This is due to friction, a force which resists the movement of one object sliding past another. Understand more about friction with a fantastic practical project: make your own balloon hovercraft!
Super scientist quiz
Quiz questions to encourage your child to think about how scientists work and why they do the things they do.
Reaching conclusions
A worksheet showing results of an experiment with questions underneath to consider.
How to subtract negative numbers
When we are measuring temperatures we often use negative numbers. Complete this activity using a thermometer to help subtract (or find the difference between) a pair of negative numbers or a positive number and negative number.
How to add negative numbers
What’s so confusing about adding negative numbers? The fact that it doesn’t follow the rules of adding positive numbers! When you add negative numbers you are actually subtracting them. Here are some tips to help you understand and visualise this. Can you answer these sums now?
Adding positive and negative numbers
Here are some simple rules that will help you to add positive and negative numbers. Try applying these rules to add these positive and negative numbers.
Adding and subtracting negative numbers puzzle
Can you fill in the missing numbers to make each puzzle correct? Take care with the negative numbers!
Division as repeated subtraction
An introduction to the method of ‘repeated subtraction’ (also called chunking), useless when we are dividing large numbers.
Year 6 English Challenge Pack
Challenging reading comprehensions and activities for Year 6 readers and writers, designed to stretch your child and offer them the opportunity to explore their year-group topics in greater depth.
Year 5 English Challenge Pack
Challenging reading comprehensions and activities for Year 5 readers and writers, designed to stretch your child and offer them the opportunity to explore their year-group topics in greater depth.
Year 4 English Challenge Pack
Challenging reading comprehensions and activities for Year 4 readers and writers, designed to stretch your child and offer them the opportunity to explore their year-group topics in greater depth.
Year 3 English Challenge Pack
Challenging reading comprehensions and activities for Year 3 readers and writers, designed to stretch your child and offer them the opportunity to explore their year-group topics in greater depth.
Year 2 English Challenge Pack
Challenging reading comprehensions and activities for Year 2 readers and writers, designed to stretch your child and offer them the opportunity to explore their year-group topics in greater depth.
Year 1 English Challenge Pack
Challenging reading comprehensions and activities for Year 1 readers and writers, designed to stretch your child and offer them the opportunity to explore their year-group topics in greater depth.
Year 6 Maths Challenge Pack
Do Year 6 maths the fun way with puzzles, challenges and activities designed to stretch upper KS2 mathematicians and help them explore the Y6 maths curriculum at greater depth.
Year 5 Maths Challenge Pack
Get your child's maths brain fired up with puzzles, challenges and activities for Year 5 mathematicians.
Year 4 Maths Challenge Pack
Encourage your child to try some Y4 maths puzzles and challenges and explore the Year 4 curriculum in greater depth. The result? Greater confidence and plenty of mathematical fun!
Year 3 Maths Challenge Pack
Offer your Year 3 mathematician some greater-depth puzzles and activities to help them explore and investigate different aspects of the Y3 maths curriculum (the fun way!).
Year 2 Maths Challenge Pack
Challenging activities and puzzles for children in Year 2, designed to stretch young mathematicians and offer them the opportunity to explore their year-group topics in greater depth.
Year 1 Maths Challenge Pack
Challenging activities and puzzles for Year 1 mathematicians, designed to stretch your child and offer them the opportunity to explore their year-group topics in greater depth.
Using imperative verbs
Learn a card trick to amaze friends and family and practise identifying and using imperative verbs in this Y4 activity worksheet.
Identify imperative verbs
Identify and underline all the imperative verbs in this instruction text about making an omelette – then make and eat one yourself!
Year 1 Phonics screening check 2018
The Year 1 Phonics Screening Check, administered in June, tests children's knowledge of phonics with a mixture of real and nonsense words. The official past paper for 2018 will show you what sort of words children are asked to read as part of the assessment.