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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.
2x table practice
Encourage your child to practise their 2x table by working out these party-themed word-problems.
Multiply by 10
A worksheet consisting of problems involving the 10x table with spaces to draw pictures and work out the answers.
Reaching conclusions
A worksheet showing results of an experiment with questions underneath to consider.
Comparative sizes of the Earth, sun and moon
An activity for your child to try at home to help them get a clear understanding of the comparative sizes of and distances between the Earth, Sun and moon.
Learning the alphabet
A fun join-the-dots activity that will help your child with learning their alphabet.
Writing poetry from prose
This worksheet encourages children to look at a piece of prose and improve it with their own phrases, before transforming the prose into a poem.
Breaking words into syllables
Use this worksheet to encourage your child to read words aloud and then break them into syllables.
Writing a diary
This worksheet encourages your child to write a diary entry using descriptive words.
Using sounds to make words (Phase 3 phonics)
Encourage your child to use these sounds and put them together to make a variety of different words.
Conductors and insulators
Use this worksheet to discuss conductors and insulators with your child. See if they can work out which materials will make the bulb light up and why.
Parts of a plant and what they do
This download shows a picture of a plant and asks children to label the parts and also explain what each part does. There is an answer sheet included.
Column addition challenge
Use this worksheet to practise adding four-digit numbers using the column method.
Rounding to the nearest whole number
Use this worksheet to practise rounding measurements of length to the nearest whole number.
Primary and secondary sources
How do we find out about the past? What evidence is available to us, and how can we research events that happened over 100 years ago? This worksheet will help your child develop an understanding of the passing of time and encourage them to think historically.
Reading the /ee/ sound (Phase 5 phonics)
This activity will enable your child to recognise the /ea/ sound, which can be represented by a number of different graphemes, and practise reading and writing it.
Acrostic adjectives
This poetry worksheet encourages your child to experiment with adjectives used to describe someone in order to write an acrostic poem / puzzle.
What material is it made of?
Your child will develop their knowledge of materials and their properties with this fun to do worksheet.
Addition using a number line
Number lines are used a lot in primary school maths. Show your Reception child how to practise using one to work out simple addition.
Take away one
Help your child visualise and understand subtraction (or taking away). This worksheet uses pictures to make the concept clearer.
Using a number square to identify odd and even numbers
A colouring in activity that will enable your child to identify odd and even numbers on a 100 square. What do they notice about the numbers they have coloured in?