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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.
What this means for subscribers:
- Your subscription is still active, and for now, you can keep using the website as normal — just log in with your usual details to access all our articles and resources*.
- 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.
A few changes to be aware of:
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- The 11+ weekly emails have now ended. We sent you all the remaining emails in the series at the end of March — please check your inbox (and spam folder) if you haven’t seen them. You can also follow the full programme here: 11+ Learning Journey.
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 5 worksheets
Free worksheets: Science, KS2, Y5
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The greenhouse effect investigation
Our planet is constantly affected by different forces and factors – many of which are caused by humans. We often hear about something called “the greenhouse effect”… but what is it? The greenhouse effect is when our planet heats up due to harmful gases collecting in our atmosphere. This simple investigation will show you how it happens!
Night and day investigation
What causes us to have a night and a day? Why is it night on one side of the Earth but day on the other? Let's investigate!
Life cycles card game
This game is designed to help you revise the key stages in different life cycles. The aim of the game is to collect all four stages in each life cycle.
Cleaning water experiment
In this activity you will learn how to clean some water!
Create your own wordsearch
Looking for a fun way to practise this week's spellings, or consolidate some new vocabulary? Use our blank printable wordsearch grid to create your own puzzle for your KS2 child (and you can print it out as many times as you need to!).
Homeschooling achievement certificate
Reward your child's achievement at home with TheSchoolRun's homeschooling achievement certificate. Download, print and present it in your at-home graduation ceremony!
Rewards resources pack
Achievement assemblies and teachers' gold stars may not be possible right now – but we've made it easy to reward your child for effort, perseverance and all-round excellence with our Home Schooling Rewards pack. There are a few "well done" stickers and certificates that adults can work towards, too – and who will win the Kindness Cup in your house this week?
Year 5 Maths Mastery Workbook
Boost your child's confidence with maths and help them build on their knowledge with TheSchoolRun's Year 5 Maths Mastery Workbook. Practice activities will help them consolidate their skills using the concrete-pictorial-abstract approach to numeracy used in maths mastery lessons.
Your 11+ Exam Prep Reading Adventure
Reading is an 11+ exam preparation superpower! Each of the 40 books in our 11+ exam prep reading adventure has been chosen to act as a story-filled portal to new vocabulary and will help your child get to grips with challenging texts the fun way – no flashcards required!
11+ vocabulary flashcards
Download our free 11+ flashcards to help boost your child's vocabulary and practise for the verbal reasoning tasks of the 11+ exams.
Understand the Earth's movements
An investigation and activity sheet to help Y5 children consolidate their knowledge about the Earth and how it moves in space.
Shadow investigation
A Year 5 science investigation into shadows and what they can tell us about the position of the Sun in the sky.
Learning about the moon
Find out about the Earth's moon and then answer some true-or-false questions in this Year 5 science worksheet.
Rounding to 100,000
Remember, when rounding numbers you need to look at the column of the number you are rounding to, to see if the digit is 5, smaller than 5 or larger than 5. Can you round these numbers to the nearest 100,000?
Rounding numbers to the nearest 10,000
In Year 5 maths you will be working with very large numbers. This activity asks you to round numbers up to 1 million (1,000,000). You are rounding to the nearest 10,000.
How to add negative numbers
What’s so confusing about adding negative numbers? The fact that it doesn’t follow the rules of adding positive numbers! When you add negative numbers you are actually subtracting them. Here are some tips to help you understand and visualise this. Can you answer these sums now?
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.
Decimals made simple
How confident would you feel if your child asked:
“Mum, what’s 345.89 X 22.23?”
or what if they wanted your help with this homework question:
What is 5.6 metres plus 44 millimetres?
If you’re panicking just looking at these questions – don’t worry. Written specifically to help parents support their child’s learning at home, Decimals made simple contains everything you need to make sense of decimals for your Key Stage 2 child – all presented in a fun, engaging and effective way.
“Mum, what’s 345.89 X 22.23?”
or what if they wanted your help with this homework question:
What is 5.6 metres plus 44 millimetres?
If you’re panicking just looking at these questions – don’t worry. Written specifically to help parents support their child’s learning at home, Decimals made simple contains everything you need to make sense of decimals for your Key Stage 2 child – all presented in a fun, engaging and effective way.
Year 5 Maths Challenge Pack
Get your child's maths brain fired up with puzzles, challenges and activities for Year 5 mathematicians.
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 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.
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?
Y5 and Y6 spelling wordsearch
Hidden in this wordsearch are some of the words from the Year 5/6 curriculum spelling list. Can you find them and highlight them?