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Important update from TheSchoolRun

For the past 13 years, TheSchoolRun has been run by a small team of mums working from home, dedicated to providing quality educational resources to primary school parents. Unfortunately, rising supplier costs and falling revenue have made it impossible for us to continue operating, and we’ve had to make the difficult decision to close. The good news: We’ve arranged for another educational provider to take over many of our resources. These will be hosted on a new portal, where the content will be updated and expanded to support your child’s learning.

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  • In a few months, all resources will move to the new portal. You’ll continue to have access there until your subscription ends. We’ll send you full details nearer the time.
  • As a thank you for your support, we’ll also be sending you 16 primary school eBooks (worth £108.84) to download and keep.

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If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected]. Thank you for being part of our journey it’s been a privilege to support your family’s learning.

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Year 1 Creative writing and fiction worksheets

Free worksheets: Creative writing and fiction, KS1, Y1

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Writing task: Your first day back at school

Writing task: Your first day back at school

Can you remember your first day back to school this year? How did you feel? Did you have a new teacher? Can you describe your teacher? What did you do on your first day? Did you make any new friends? Write a few sentences to describe what your first day was like.
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Planning a story with a spider diagram

Planning a story with a spider diagram

A Year 1 English worksheet created by an experienced teacher to help your child plan a story by creating a spider diagram.
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Writing lists practice worksheet

Writing lists practice

Help Wendy Witch write a list of all the ingredients she’ll need to include in her new potion.
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Describing story characters

Choose a character that we all know from a traditional tale, or one from a story book that you love. Think about what happens to the character in your story, then draw it in pictures.
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Understanding story settings worksheet

Understanding story settings

Stories take place in different settings. Can your child use their knowledge of traditional tales to identify the story settings for these well-known stories?
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Writing a story start worksheet

Writing a story start

Writing great stories begins with choosing a fantastic opening idea and sentence. Help your child practise writing engaging story starts with our worksheet, designed for Y1 children.
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Describing characters in traditional tales worksheet

Describing characters in traditional tales

A first reading comprehension activity for Y1 children. Can they describe characters like Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella from traditional tales?
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Word puzzles for Key Stage 1 English learning pack

Word puzzles for Key Stage 1 English

Take a break from homework and spelling drills with this collection of word puzzles for Key Stage 1! Each one covers a different concept that your child will learn in English lessons, but presents it as something to solve by remembering what they've been taught in class.
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Using captions worksheet

Using captions

This English worksheet will help your child to write captions and complete sentences, using a full stop at the end.
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Writing descriptive sentences worksheet

Writing descriptive sentences

This worksheet encourages children to improve sentences by adding descriptive words.
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Reordering sentences worksheet

Reordering sentences

Help your child understand how to create sentences by having them rewrite these so the words are in the proper order.
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