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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!
Solving money problems: Division
Help your child improve their division skills by solving the money word problems on this worksheet. Can they come up with two more of their own?
Writing informative text
Have your child pretend they're helping out a new boy or girl who's just arrived at their school by explaining all of the important things they'd need to know, from homework to PE.
Spotting facts and opinions
Use this worksheet to help your child learn to recognise sentences that are facts and sentences that are opinions.
Write a poem about snow
In this worksheet, your child can complete a poem about snow by filling in the blanks. Repeat the exercise to come up with a few different poems.
Write full sentences
Convert basic notes about a fun day at the Natural History Museum into full sentences and paragraphs.
Group 'i' before 'e' words
Help your child learn the "'i' before 'e' except after 'c'" rule by grouping the words that follow the rule and the ones that don't into the appropriate categories.
Full stops, commas and capital letters practice
Help your child understand where and when to use commas and full stops by filling them into the text on this worksheet. Don't forget to add capital letters at the start of new sentences!
Half-term wordsearch
Use this wordsearch during half-term to help your child with vocabulary and spelling while recognising words that are all about having fun!
Write a letter about your holiday
This exercise is a great way to help your child practise descriptive writing. Talk about recent holidays your family has gone on, and what your child remembers from them. Can they write a letter to a friend, telling them about the holiday?
Instruction text puzzle
This instruction text worksheet helps your child understand the correct way to explain a detailed process, and also gives you a recipe for a tasty treat!
Calculating equivalent fractions
Are 4/5 and 8/10 equivalent? How about 1/3 and 2/4? Revise the method used to calculate equivalent fractions with this KS2 worksheet.
Fractions made simple
Foxed by fractions? Not any more! From the foundations of fractions learning in Reception to converting fractions to decimals and percentages in Year 6, our teacher-created learning pack explains everything your child needs to know in fractions. We'll break fractions down and show you, step by step, how to teach your primary school child fractions.
Telling the time pack
Learning to tell the time is a process which spans the primary-school years, and children can find it overwhelmingly hard. The Telling the Time pack is a complete guide to everything you need to know to support your child and help them get to grips with this vital skill, bursting with practical suggestions, advice from experts and activity sheets for all the key stages.
Writing an acrostic poem
A worksheet encouraging children to think of ideas and then structure them into an acrostic poem.
Multiply by 10 (including decimals)
This worksheet gives your child lots of examples of numbers to multiply by 10, including decimals.
Estimating weight
This worksheet will help your child to record estimates and readings from weighing scales.
Get started with French
Planning a holiday in France? Give your child a head start with our beginner's guide to French, designed to help them grasp basic vocabulary and form simple sentences. We’ve asked a native French speaker to record all the words and phrases in the pack, so your child will hear the correct pronunciation and intonation, just as they would on an audio language course. Bonne chance!
Writing a limerick
A worksheet encouraging children to read a limerick and think about its structure, then structure their own limerick.
Multiplying by 10 and 100
This worksheet encourages children to think about how many 10p coins and 1p coins make up the given amounts.
Counting forces: experiment with a ball
A fun way to introduce your child to the concept of gravity and its effect on objects.