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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:

  • The Learning Journey weekly email has ended, but your child’s plan will still be updated on your dashboard each Monday. Just log in to see the recommended worksheets.
  • 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 Life and living things worksheets

Understanding puberty worksheet

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
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The life cycle of an owl worksheet

The life cycle of an owl

Can you cut out these cards and arrange them in the correct order on the life cycles frame?
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The life cycle of a sunflower worksheet

The life cycle of a sunflower

Can you cut out these cards and arrange them in the correct order on the life cycles frame?
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The life cycle of a bee worksheet

The life cycle of a bee

Can you cut out these cards and arrange them in the correct order on the life cycles frame on the next page?
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The human life cycle worksheet

The human life cycle

Can you cut out these cards and arrange them in the correct order on the life cycles frame?
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The effects of a healthy diet worksheet

The effects of a healthy diet

Eating a balanced diet is important for maintaining good health. This food pyramid shows us how much we should have of each food group every day. Why do you think we need these different food groups? Can you do some research into the nutrients each group gives us.
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Researching life cycles worksheet

Researching life cycles

Think of an animal or plant you are particularly interested in. Can you research their life cycle? Draw or print out some pictures to make your life cycle clearer.
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Research the life of Jane Goodall worksheet

Research the life of Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall is a world-famous primatologist who has made lots of important scientific discoveries about chimpanzees and how they behave. Can you do some research and find the answers to these questions about her life?
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Pregnancy in humans worksheet

Pregnancy in humans

This table shows what happens in the different stages of pregnancy. Some of the boxes are blank. Can you fill in what happens at these stages by researching it in library books or on the internet?
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Analysing growth in babies and toddlers

Analysing growth in babies and toddlers

This line graph shows how much baby Jack weighed throughout his first year. Can you answer the following questions?
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Understanding a frog’s life cycle

Understanding a frog’s life cycle

Look at these pictures of the stages of a frog’s life cycle. Can you arrange them into a cycle diagram? Can you read the statements and match them to each stage?
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Life cycles card game

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.
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Identifying good habitats worksheet

Identifying good habitats

Try to find four different habitats that animals or minibeasts live in around your house. Make notes on how effective each of these habitats is.
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