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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!
Optional SATs papers: Y5 English 2006
In Y3, Y4 and Y5 optional SATs testing was used in schools prior to 2016 to track pupils' progress in English and maths. This official Y5 English SATs paper from 2006, free to download, can be used as an at-home revision and study aid.
Spelling words list
Get weekly spelling practice organised with our printable spelling lists, blank and ready to be filled with your child's assigned words. Attach the list to the fridge for quick revision sessions before the weekly spelling test.
Look, Cover, Write and Check spelling words
A blank Look, Cover, Write and Check spelling words list for kids to download and print to practise their weekly spelling words and prepare for tests.
Year 5 spelling tests pack
Focus on Year 5 tricky words and spelling patterns with our 11 tests, designed to help your child improve their spelling skills. The Look, Cover, Write and Check method is suggested to help consolidate difficult spellings, so each test offers a fill-in grid to work with.
Optional SATs papers: Y5 maths 2006
Use these Year 5 maths optional SATs papers from 2006, free to download, to help your child revise their numerical knowledge at the end of Y5 and identify areas they need extra support with.
Shakespeare plays wordsearch
Challenge your KS2 child to a Shakespearean wordsearch. Can they find the titles of 14 of the Bard's famous plays hidden in the wordsearch grid?
The probability scale
Cut out these events and stick them where you think they should go on the probability scale. Remember, the probability scale starts at 0 and ends at 1, so you’ll need to be good with your decimals!
Probability Piranhas game
You are going to go piranha fishing in The Amazon using piranha cages! But there is a likelihood of river rapids, so you'll have to decide whether to put your piranha cages shallow or deep...
Full stops challenge: The Story Game
Each player collects parts of sentences as they go round the board then, when you get to the end, see who can write the best story using just the parts you've collected.
Direct speech Game
The aim of the game is to make a full sentence containing direct speech. You move around the board collecting game cards based on the colour you land on. The first person to make a complete sentence wins.
Coin flipping investigation
When you flip a coin, there is an even chance that you will get either a head or a tail. This means that the chance of getting either is equally likely. Does the starting position of the coin affect the probability? Let’s find out!
China Homework Gnome facts
Download and print all the main facts and information about China for free with TheSchoolRun's Homework Gnome factsheet.
Pirate Pete and the Scurvy Scuttler data handling puzzle pack
Pirate Pete needs your help (and maths skills!) to get his ship back! Are you ready to hunt for treasure? Designed to help children practise common KS2 data handling skills, our statistics learning pack is bursting with Venn diagrams, pie charts, pictograms and line graphs to interpret and construct. All aboard the pirate ship!
Edward the Confessor Homework Gnome facts
Download and print all the main facts and information about Edward the Confessor for free with TheSchoolRun's Homework Gnome factsheet for primary-school children.
King Alfred Homework Gnome facts
Download and print all the main facts and information about Alfred the Great for free with TheSchoolRun's Homework Gnome factsheet for primary-school children.
India Homework Gnome facts
Download and print all the main facts and information about India for free with TheSchoolRun's Homework Gnome factsheet for primary-school children.
Brazil Homework Gnome facts
Download and print all the main facts and information about Brazil for free with TheSchoolRun's Homework Gnome factsheet.
Crack that code spelling rules puzzle pack
It's time to save the world... one correct spelling at a time! Designed to help kids practise common KS2 spelling patterns and tricky words the fun way, the Crack that code spelling rules puzzle pack offers wordsearches, crosswords, puzzles and codes galore.
Understanding puberty
In order to be able to have children, our bodies need to go through changes. Puberty is a big change that occurs in girls and boys roughly between the ages of 11 and 14. Read this text a few times. Now cover it over and see if you can remember four changes for girls and four changes for boys
The life cycle of an owl
Can you cut out these cards and arrange them in the correct order on the life cycles frame?