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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.
Seven- and eight-digit numbers: understanding place value
For each of these numbers, follow the command and write your answer in the box on the right-hand side.
Seven- and eight-digit numbers puzzle
Cut out the cards below. Can you match each number card with its correct description?
Place value grids for KS2
Read each of the numbers in this KS2 place value worksheet, and then write the number in digits in the place value grid. Don’t forget to include commas in the correct places!
Reading and writing six-digit and seven-digit numbers
The blue cards show numbers written in digits; the orange cards show the same numbers in words. Can you match them up?
Ordering seven- and eight-digit numbers
Cut out the cards below. Can you put them in order, from smallest to largest?
Match the place value
Cut out all the cards. Look at each red card and the digit that has been underlined. Can you match it with a green card that represents the value of that digit?
Shading and naming fractions of shapes
In this Year 3 fractions worksheet, your child is asked to identify and colour in different fractions of shapes.
Incomplete number sentences multiplication and division
The number sentences in this worksheet each have one number or one symbol (x or ÷) missing. You’ll need to know your 2, 5, 10, 3, 6 and 8 times tables to work out what it is!
Incomplete number sentences addition and subtraction
The number sentencesin this worksheet each have one number or one symbol (+ or -) missing. Can you work out what it is and add it in?
Reading comprehension: THE SHEPHERD BOY AND THE WOLF
Read this passage about a boy who cries wolf, and then answer the questions below.
Reading comprehension: the bride
Great Expectations is a novel written by Charles Dickens in 1861. In this passage the protagonist Pip visits an old lady who lives nearby, Miss Havisham. She was abandoned at the altar by the man she was about to marry and has spent the rest of her life indoors, still wearing her wedding dress.
First Day of school printable signs
Prepare for the traditional first-day-of-school photo by printing out our free school-year signs (UK school years from Reception to Year 8). New academic year, here we come!
Year 6 Cloze test: the storm
This is a passage from The Swiss Family Robinson, a novel written in 1812 by Johann David Wyss. It is about a family who are shipwrecked and have to survive on a tropical island and is written from the point of view of the father, William. Some of the words in the text are missing. Can you complete the text by filling in one missing letter per box?
Year 6 Cloze test: the Caterpillar
Alice in Wonderland was written in 1865 by Lewis Carroll. It is a story about a girl called Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world. Some of the words in the text are missing.
Can you complete the text by filling in one missing letter per box?
Can you complete the text by filling in one missing letter per box?
Year 6 Cloze test: Mowgli in the jungle
The Jungle Book was written in 1894 by Rudyard Kipling. It is about a boy called Mowgli, who grows up with wolves. In this passage Baloo, a bear, and Bagheera, a black panther, show him the ways of the jungle. Some of the words in the text are missing. Can you complete the text by filling in one missing letter per box?
Reading comprehension: the stream in the storm
This is a passage from the The Water Babies, written in 1863 by Charles Kingsley. It is about a young chimney-sweep called Tom who falls into a river and becomes a water baby. Read the passage then have a go at answering the questions below.
Reading comprehension: the strange adventure
This is a passage from the The Water Babies, written in 1863 by Charles Kingsley. It is about a young chimney-sweep called Tom who falls into a river and becomes a water baby. Read the passage then have a go at answering the questions below.
Reading comprehension: the man cub
The Jungle Book was written in 1894 by Rudyard Kipling. It is the story of a little boy called Mowgli, who grows up with wolves. He is helped by a black panther called Bagheera. Read the passage then have a go at answering the questions below.
Reading comprehension: the cruel child
This is a passage from the The Water Babies, written in 1863 by Charles Kingsley. It is about a young boy called Tom who works as a chimney-sweep. He falls into a river and becomes a water baby. In this passage, Tom has found a caddis that is growing safely in a cocoon. Read the passage then have a go at answering the questions below.
Reading comprehension: Mowgli and the villagers
The Jungle Book was written in 1894 by Rudyard Kipling. It is about a little boy called Mowgli, who grows up with wolves. In this passage, Mowgli has ventured into the village. Read the passage then have a go at answering the questions below.