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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.
Reversible changes: solids and liquids
An activity to help your child understand that some solids can be separated from liquids by filtering.
Multiplying by 10 and 100
This worksheet encourages children to think about how many 10p coins and 1p coins make up the given amounts.
Column addition with three-, four- and five-digit numbers
A sheet giving the opportunity to practise column addition using 3, 4 and 5 digit numbers.
Features in a spoken advert
This practical worksheet encourages your child to analyse a spoken advert and then use some of the same kind of persuasive language in their own writing.
Open and closed questions
Do you know the difference between an open and a closed question? Use both to conduct and interview and evaluate which work best!
Using chunking to divide
Chunking, or repeated subtraction, is a way to tackle complex division problems. This worksheet offers a step-by-step guide to the technique and some calculations to practise it on.
Identifying words that rhyme (Phase 2 phonics)
Stretch your child's beginner phonics skills with this rhyming exercise. Find the words that rhyme and write them on the correct lines.
Using question marks
Full stop or question mark? Help your child know when to use which one by putting the correct mark at the end of these sentences.
Reordering sentences
Help your child understand how to create sentences by having them rewrite these so the words are in the proper order.
Capital letters and full stops practice
Your child can practise working with capital letters and full stops by writing them where needed in this list of sentences.
Division: splitting numbers
Splitting big numbers can help your child learn to divide them correctly. Remind them to watch out for remainders!
The short division method
This worksheet helps your child learn to set out their calculation using the long division method, then use it to solve division problems.
Division revision and practice
Help your child tackle simple division problems, practising how to translate a story problem into a number sentence.
Understanding column multiplication
Review the column multiplication technique and consolidate the learning with plenty of practice. Don't forget to carry over numbers from one column to the next!
The multiplication grid method for big numbers
The multiplication grid method is a simple technique to help children learn to multiply big numbers. Review the technique with this worksheet and then put it into practice.
Using the multiplication grid method
One of the multiplication techniques your child will be taught is the grid method. This worksheet will help your child revise the method and practise solving multiplication problems.
Multiplication arrays
An array is a different way of visualising multiplication. Can your child complete these multiplication sentences using their knowledge of arrays?
Column addition with three- and four-digit numbers
Column addition practice is much easier if your child is using a grid to help them keep the units, tens, hundreds and thousands in the right place value columns! Working through this worksheet will help them test the technique.
Addition: carrying on numbers
'Carrying' numbers from one place value column to another is an important part of column addition. Help your child master the skill with this worksheet, which offers a plain-English guide to the technique and then exercises to complete to consolidate the learning.
Beginning to use column addition
Column addition is taught in two stages, and this worksheet offers a step-by-step overview of the technique (it'll be familiar from your own school days, but a refresher always comes in handy!). Your child will need good place value skills to complete the addition problems; column addition grids have been provided to help them.