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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.
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 spelling activities for KS2 (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 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!).
Using imperative verbs
Learn a card trick to amaze friends and family and practise identifying and using imperative verbs in this Y4 activity worksheet.
Apostrophes and singular nouns ending in -s
When a noun we want to add an apostrophe to ends in -s we add 's to show possession, according to the national curriculum. Practise the rule by punctuating some sentences.
Key Stage 2 - 2018 Maths SATs Papers
The official 2018 KS2 SATs maths papers, which can be downloaded for free from TheSchoolRun to offer at-home practice for the Y6 tests.
Key Stage 2 - 2018 English SATs Papers
Help your child prepare for the Year 6 English SATs, taken at the end of Key Stage 2, with some revision and at-home practice. These complete 2018 Y6 SATs past papers are the official past papers from the Department for Education, used in schools.
Home education planning pack
If you've decided to home educate your child this learning pack provides guidance, templates and advice to get you started.
Year 6 proofreading: editing and improving
This information text needs punctuating and dividing into paragraphs. Try to include punctuation marks like semi colons, brackets and dashes, too.
Year 5 proofreading: formal and informal language
Billy has written a letter to try to persuade his local council that a new park is needed in the area. The language is very informal. Do you think his letter will be taken seriously? Your task is to keep the ideas in the letter the same but rewrite it using the more appropriate formal language that is needed when writing a persuasive letter to someone you don’t know.
Year 4 proofreading: organising information into paragraphs
Paragraphs are used to split writing into sections; each paragraph is about a different topic. Can you cut out these sentences and organise them into paragraph groups?
Year 3 proofreading: correcting punctuation
Each of the following sentences need a punctuation mark at the end. Can you choose a “.”, “?” or “!” for each one?
Y6 criss-cross word puzzle
A criss-cross puzzle has a grid like a crossword, but there are no clues; instead you must fit given words into the grid. Not easy! Can you put these Y5/Y6 spelling words into the correct slot on the criss-cross grid?
Y5 and Y6 tricky spelling words
Can you match up these tricky words to their correct definition? Use a dictionary to check if you’re not sure about their meaning, then use the Look, Cover, Write and Check method to learn to spell them.
Y5 spelling: unstressed vowels
In these sentences, can you find the words with unstressed vowel sounds, underline them and circle the sound?