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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 6 worksheets
Free worksheets: Science, KS2, Y6
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What stores and transfers energy?
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be transferred from one store into another. In these pictures, which items do you think use energy? Which ones store energy? Do they all store/use the same type of energy? Cut them out and sort them into groups.
Understanding friction: Build your own balloon hovercraft
When a moving surface slides on a stationary surface it rubs against it, which slows it down. This is due to friction, a force which resists the movement of one object sliding past another. Understand more about friction with a fantastic practical project: make your own balloon hovercraft!
Super scientist quiz
Quiz questions to encourage your child to think about how scientists work and why they do the things they do.
Reaching conclusions
A worksheet showing results of an experiment with questions underneath to consider.
Key Stage 2 - 2024 Maths SATs Papers
Download the official 2024 KS2 SATs maths papers for free from TheSchoolRun to help your child practise for the Y6 assessments at home.
Key Stage 2 - 2024 English SATs Papers
Help your child prepare for the Year 6 English SATs, taken at the end of Key Stage 2, with some revision and at-home practice. These KS2 SATs past papers from 2024 are the official past papers from the Department for Education, used in schools.
Handwriting practice: Letter to Father Christmas
Use your KS2 child's Christmas letter to Father Christmas as a fun opportunity to practise handwriting. The layout has been done for them, now all they need to do is write their Christmas list, name and address and pop it in the post (find Santa's address on the Royal Mail website!). This is a great activity to help children consider how to form letters correctly and there's plenty of space to include wished-for items. Writing this letter will also help them understand that letters have a purpose and a particular audience.
Year 6 function machine activity
Function machines can be a delightful visual resource for children, facilitating their comprehension of various mathematical functions. You can make use of this worksheet to hone your child's equation-solving skills and uncover the functions at play in different mathematical sums.
Superstar Spelling Pack
Are you a Spelling Superstar? Test your abilities with this fun and challenging spelling pack. Practise high-frequency words, coding short and long vowels, contractions and homophones with these games and activities created by teacher and mum, Clare Winstanley.
Take your spelling to the next level, impress your classmates and boost your confidence with Superstar Spelling.
Take your spelling to the next level, impress your classmates and boost your confidence with Superstar Spelling.
Primary Geometry: shape and space pack
Geometry is better known in primary schools nowadays as ‘Shape and Space’. Shape work focuses on 2D and 3D shapes; by the end of the primary curriculum children have a solid knowledge of a large number of shapes and their characteristics. This pack of activities is full of hands-on activities that will help children to name, sort and classify shapes before moving onto topics such as area, perimeter, angles and symmetry.
Positive and negative number lines up to 50
In KS2, children will learn about negative numbers and having a visual aid, such as a positive and negative number line, can help them understand the concept and have fun with maths. Use these number lines to practise counting positive and negative numbers up to 50.
Positive and negative number lines up to 40
Number lines are extremely useful tools for counting in primary school. In KS2, children will learn about negative numbers and having a visual aid, such as a positive and negative number line, can help them understand the concept and have fun with maths. Use these number lines to practise counting from -40 up to 40.
Positive and negative number lines up to 30
Number lines are extremely useful tools for counting both positive and negative numbers in primary school. In KS2, children will learn about negative numbers and having a visual aid, such as a number line, can help them understand the concept and have fun with maths.
Positive and negative number lines up to 20
Number lines are extremely useful tools in primary school. In KS2, children will learn about negative numbers and having a visual aid, such as a positive and negative number line, can help them understand the concept and have fun with maths. Use these number lines to practise counting positive and negative numbers up to 20.
Positive and negative number lines up to 10
Number lines are extremely useful tools for counting in primary school. In KS2, children will learn about negative numbers and having a visual aid, such as a positive and negative number line, can help them understand the concept and have fun with maths. Use these number lines to practise counting positive and negative numbers.
Spelling list for Year 6
Here is a list of words that cover the spelling rules children are expected to learn by the end of Year 6. How many can you spell?
Key Stage 2 - 2022 English SATs Papers
Help your child prepare for the Year 6 English SATs, taken at the end of Key Stage 2, with some revision and at-home practice. These KS2 SATs past papers from 2022 are the official past papers from the Department for Education, used in schools.
Key Stage 2 - 2022 Maths SATs Papers
Download the official 2022 KS2 SATs maths papers for free from TheSchoolRun to help your child practise for the Y6 assessments at home.
Battleships!
The goal behind this classic strategic game is to try and sink your opponent’s battleships. Each player tries to hide their ships on the grid and avoid being ‘hit’ by the other player’s ‘shots’. A player is given two grids, one to put their own ships on and one to mark their guesses and whether or not their shots succeeded.
Multiplication square
A multiplication number square will help your child spot number patterns and begin to learn their multiplication tables and square numbers. Download TheSchoolRun's free, colour-coded multiplication tables to help them practise their multiplication facts and times tables at home.
Year 6 worksheets taster pack
Find out what your child will learn in Year 6 English, maths and science, try out a few learning activities and read our top tips about how to support their learning and development in our free, downloadable Year 6 Taster Pack.
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?