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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!
KS2 Easter activities pack
Get ready for some egg-y, chocolate-y, Easter-y fun! The KS2 Easter activities pack has plenty of themed maths, English and science learning opportunities to keep kids busy and learning over the spring break.
Roman numerals dice
Use these free Roman numerals dice (six-sided and ten-sided) to help your child learn to recognise Roman numerals and practise using them in games.
Festive fun activities for KS2
With Christmas lists to write, present-delivery schedules to work out, Grotto problems to solve and light and dark experiments to try this bumper pack of festive learning activities will keep your child engaged over the Christmas break.
Book reviews activity pack
Help your child explore books and language with TheSchoolRun's Book reviews activity pack, a huge collection of reading comprehension and creative writing resources for Year 1 to Year 6.
Using pronouns
Can you add the pronouns below into the gaps in this passage from The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin by Beatrix Potter?
Using formal and informal language
A formal letter and an informal letter has been cut up into pieces. Can you cut out the pieces and piece them back into two letters?
Revise subject and verb agreement and verb tenses
This passage is about how and why the ancient Egyptians mummified dead bodies. Some verbs are in bold. Look at the subject of each of these verbs and also think about the tense they should be in (you may want to read the passage a few times first). Can you change the verbs so that they agree with their subjects and the tenses are correct?
Changing verb tenses
Look at the following sentences. Each one needs to be rewritten into different tenses. Are you ready?
Y5 time word problems
Use your knowledge of time to solve these word problems. For an extra challenge, work against the clock and aim to finish as quickly as possible!
Ordering decimals on a number line
Can you place these decimals in the correct place on the number line?
Finding percentages of quantities
Once you can find 5%, 10%, 50% and 75% of a quantity you can move on to finding the value of harder percentages! Use this method to work out the answers to these tricky percentage questions.
Drawing shapes using parallel lines
Can you draw a shape that has four sides and two parallel lines? What about a pentagon? What about a shape with two or more right angles?
Bar chart problem
Look at this bar chart, which shows the number of portions of fruit and vegetables eaten by children in Year 5 in one day, and see if you can answer the questions below.
Magic Maths
Are you ready to unleash your maths superpowers? Our number tricks will help you develop X-Ray vision, read minds, memorise hundreds of numbers and more. Add, subtract, multiply, divide and... abracadabra!
Y5 place value quiz
Cut out the following numbers and put them face up on a table. Now ask an adult to read out the questions below. Every time you think you’ve found the correct number, turn it over so it is face down.
Six-digit numbers: place value grids
Read each of these numbers, then write the number in digits in the place value grid. Don’t forget to include a comma in the correct place!
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?
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 5 Cloze test: the ship in the storm
This is a passage from Swiss Family Robinson, a novel written in 1812 by Johann David Wyss. It is about a family that get shipwrecked and have to survive on a tropical island. It 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?