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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.
Addition using the counting on or number line method
Counting on in hops and number lines are the methods used to solve these addition calculations. This worksheet offers your child a step-by-step reminder of the technique and then lots of addition problems to practise on.
Equivalent fractions explained
An excellent KS2 worksheet created by an experienced teacher to help your child learn about finding equivalent fractions and calculating them. The pictorial representation is particularly helpful when explaining the concept to your child.
Partitioning numbers to subtract
When solving problems using a number line your child will learn to partition the number and count back. This worksheet explains the technique and offers some subtraction problems for your child to practise on.
The subtraction column method explained
The column method makes subtracting large numbers easy. Revise borrowing and place value and practise the calculation with this worksheet. How fast can your child complete the sums correctly?
Borrowing and decimal subtractions
Subtracting decimal numbers means using place value skills and borrowing - and remembering to put the decimal point in the right place! This revision worksheet will help your child practise subtracting large numbers correctly.
Fractions: sharing numbers
Fractions help us divide or share out numbers or objects. Can your child solve these simple fractions number problems by using their knowledge of numerators and denominators?
Partitioning numbers up to five digits
Partitioning is splitting numbers into their different parts – for example, 123 is partitioned as 100 + 20 + 3. Children use partitioning in all their calculations in primary school; using their place value skills, this worksheet will help them practise partitioning numbers up to five digits long.
Place value practice
Place value is one of the building blocks of primary maths education. Help your child practise identifying the value of each digit in a number with this teacher-created worksheet and boost their confidence with units, tens, hundreds, thousands and more.
Make a pinwheel
Making a pinwheel will help your child understand air power, as well as offering a great opportunity for a spot of decoration. You'll need a push pin or straight pin and a pencil with a rubber on the end as well as our pinwheel template.
Column addition: money
When your child is adding up money their column addition skills are vital. Get some practice in with this simple puzzle.
Subtraction: counting back in hops
Help your child solve subtraction problems (up to 20) with the help of number lines and counting back in 'hops', the techniques they'll be learning at school.
Victorious verbs
Help your child's writing stand out from the crowd by encouraging them to expand their vocabulary and use 'victorious' verbs. Thesaurus at the ready!
Using emotive language
By using emotive language your child can manipulate readers' emotions to great effect. Can they make them sympathise with an excitable puppy or an injured toddler? (Or is that an aggressive puppy or a tormenting toddler?)
Using adjectives for effect
Different adjectives can completely transform a piece of writing, as your child will find out when they write two contradictory reviews of a pop concert. Will they judge the singer as 'cool' or 'cold'?
Unscramble the text types
Kick off a language analysis activity with a quick text types puzzle! Your child will also need to identify commands, alliteration, emotive words and use of the first person.
Simile and metaphor
Can your child identify similes and metaphors? This worksheet offers a quick reminder of how and when they're used and helps your child improve their descriptive writing by using them correctly.
Revising capital letters and full stops
Full stops and capital letters can cause confusion, but correctly punctuated work is vital in Year 6 and beyond. Help your child feel confident about the rules with this revision worksheet activity.
Reading to interpret
Help your child unlock hidden meaning in text with this worksheet about colour association. After reading an explanation and examples, can they put their knowledge into practice in their own writing? Suggested answers are included so you can look over their work and help them improve it.
Reading comprehension: finding evidence in a text
This activity, aimed at Year 7 or advanced primary school pupils, will help your child analyse and break down a text to find evidence for their answers. What words have been used to create an impact? What images have been painted for the reader? Work through this activity step by step to practise reading comprehension.
Understanding text: purpose and target audience
Time for some text analysis! Can your child identify the purpose and target audience of different types of text which all relate to the same subject? They will need to look for key words to help them prove their point.