Hello! We're creating resources for busy primary school teachers. All our writers are themselves experienced KS1 and KS2 professionals and we design our resources to be as appealing and accessible as possible.
Hello! We're creating resources for busy primary school teachers. All our writers are themselves experienced KS1 and KS2 professionals and we design our resources to be as appealing and accessible as possible.
These reading challenge worksheets provide a quick burst of comprehension practice, ideal for morning work, a short reading session or even sparking an interest in a classic text.
Each activity sheet contains a brief extract from a classic text with a range of reading challenge questions focusing on the key reading skills of inference, information retrieval and the use of language.
The stories included are:
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe"
This booklet contains 15 mental maths challenges for Key Stage 2 pupils, covering the four processes of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, plus squared numbers and brackets. The booklet can be used as morning work, a lesson starter or during a shorter session. It contains 15 question sheets, each with 25 target numbers for children to create using a combination of the numbers and processes listed underneath.
Also included is a scorecard, enabling children to see how their mental maths skills are improving over the weeks.
These worksheets, covering possessive apostrophes with plural words, are an excellent way for children in Years 3 and 4 to revise and practise these spelling patterns.
The worksheets include five different activities in which children look at spelling patterns, identify misspelt words and apply their spellings in context. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.
These worksheets, covering the suffixes -ness and -ment, are an excellent way for children in Year 2 to revise and practise these spelling patterns.
The worksheets include five different activities in which children look at spelling patterns, identify misspelt words and apply their spellings in context. They can be used within lessons, as an assessment or as a homework task.
In year 1, pupils need to be able to recognise capital letters and form these correctly. Children can use the alphabet cards to match capital and lowercase letters and then apply their knowledge using the worksheet in the pack.
Use these KS2 comprehension worksheets to teach your children about the activist and campaigner Mahatma Gandhi. The fact sheet has information about Gandhi’s childhood, the time he spend in South Africa and his peaceful campaign for Indian independence.
The resource can be used as part of a guided reading session or as homework and includes comprehension questions covering the different reading skills of retrieval, inference and the use of vocabulary.
This pack is also a great prompt for PSHE lessons where children can discuss issues of equality, fairness and how to make a change.
These activity sheets have been created to match the small steps on the White Rose maths schemes of work.
The questions include varied fluency with reasoning with problem solving.
Children are given a variety of pictorial examples to work with and questions to provoke deeper thinking.
National Curriculum Links
Year 1 Measurement – Compare, describe and solve practical problems for: length and heights (for example, long/short, longer/shorter, tall/short, double/half).
Maths Focus
Children will compare lengths and heights of objects and make accurate comparisons.
Maths Mastery
Children can compare and order two or more objects based on their height or length.
Children can compare length accurately by ensuring that both objects start at the same point.
These activity sheets have been created to match the small steps on the White Rose maths schemes of work.
The questions include varied fluency with reasoning with problem solving.
Children are given a variety of pictorial examples to work with and questions to provoke deeper thinking.
National Curriculum Links
Year 1 Number – Addition and Subtraction
Represent and use number bonds and related subtraction facts within 20.
Add and subtract 1-digit and 2-digit numbers to 20, including zero.
Solve one-step problems that involve addition and subtraction, using concrete and pictorial representations, and missing number problems.
Maths Focus
Children will learn how to subtract by counting back.
Children will solve number sentences that have missing numbers.
Maths Mastery
Children can use efficient strategies to subtract ones, and to find the solution to number sentences with missing numbers.
Children can use their knowledge of number bonds within 20 to work out calculations mentally, and to make connections between number sentences.
These activity sheets have been created to match the small steps on the White Rose maths schemes of work.
The questions include varied fluency with reasoning with problem solving, and an additional sheet with extension activities.
Children are given a variety of pictorial examples to work with and questions to provoke deeper thinking.
National Curriculum Links
Year 1 Number – Number and Place Value
Identify and represent numbers using objects and pictorial representations including the number line, and use the language of: equal to, more than, less than (fewer), most, least.
Maths Focus
Children will explore different ways to represent numbers to 50, using objects such as counters and Base 10 equipment, and mathematical models such as the part-whole model.
Maths Mastery
Children can represent numbers up to 50 in different ways, including the part-whole model.
Children are beginning to understand how the position of a digit in a number impacts its value.
Recognise and show, using diagrams, families of common equivalent fractions.
These equivalent fraction worksheets provide extra challenge for Year 4 children. A variety of fraction problems are spread across three sections, enabling you to use the whole sheet during a lesson or to select specific problems for different teaching sessions.
A separate answer sheet for all sections is also included.
These activity sheets have been created to match the small steps on the White Rose maths schemes of work.
The questions include varied fluency with reasoning with problem solving.
Children are given a variety of pictorial examples to work with and questions to provoke deeper thinking.
National Curriculum Links
Year 1 Number – Multiplication and Division
Solve one-step problems involving multiplication and division, by calculating the answer using concrete objects, pictorial representations and arrays with the support of the teacher.
Maths Focus
Children explore sharing equally with a one to one correspondence using pictorial representations.
Maths Mastery
Children can recognise when a group is not shared equally.
Children can work out what to do when a group is not shared equally.
Children can show what they are doing in abstract form.
These activity sheets have been created to match the small steps on the White Rose maths schemes of work.
The questions include varied fluency with reasoning with problem solving.
Children are given a variety of pictorial examples to work with and questions to provoke deeper thinking.
National Curriculum Links
Year 1 Number – Fractions
Recognise, find and name a half as 1 of 2 equal parts of an object, shape or quantity.
Maths Focus
Children will start to recognise that a half means two equal parts by exploring half of shapes and objects.
Maths Mastery
Children understand that two equal halves make a whole.
Children can represent half of a shape in multiple ways.
These activity sheets have been created to match the small steps on the White Rose maths schemes of work.
The questions include varied fluency with reasoning with problem solving.
Children are given a variety of pictorial examples to work with and questions to provoke deeper thinking.
National Curriculum Links
Year 1 Measurement –
Measure and begin to record the following: capacity and volume.
Compare, describe and solve practical problems for: capacity and volume (for example, full/empty, more than, less than, quarter, half full, half).
Maths Focus
Children will use a variety of nonstandard units to compare and order objects according to their capacity.
Maths Mastery
Children can compare and order sets of containers according to their capacities, measured using a variety of nonstandard units.
These activity sheets have been created to match the small steps on the White Rose maths schemes of work.
The questions include varied fluency with reasoning with problem solving.
Children are given a variety of pictorial examples to work with and questions to provoke deeper thinking.
National Curriculum Links
Year 1 Number – Multiplication and Division
Solve one-step problems involving multiplication and division, by calculating the answer using concrete objects, pictorial representations and arrays with the support of the teacher.
Maths Focus
Children will use equal groups to find a total using their knowledge of counting in twos, fives and tens.
Maths Mastery
Children can represent what they are doing in abstract form.
*Count up and down in hundredths; recognise that hundredths arise when dividing an object by one hundred and dividing tenths by ten. *
These hundredths fraction worksheets provide extra challenge for Year 4 children. A variety of hundredths problems are spread across three sections, enabling you to use the whole sheet during a lesson or to select specific problems for different teaching sessions.
A separate answer sheet for all sections is included.
Compare and order unit fractions, and fractions with the same denominators.
These ordering fractions worksheets provide extra challenge for Year 3 children. A variety of fraction problems are spread across three sections, enabling you to use the whole sheet during a lesson or to select specific problems for different teaching sessions.
A separate answer sheet for all sections is also included.
Recognise and write decimal equivalents to ¼, ½ 3/4.
These decimal equivalents worksheets provide extra challenge for Year 4 children. A variety of fraction problems are spread across three sections, enabling you to use the whole sheet during a lesson or to select specific problems for different teaching sessions.
A separate answer sheet for all sections is included.
Calculate and compare the area of rectangles (including squares), and including using standard units, square centimetres (cm2) and square metres (m2) and estimate the area of irregular shapes.
These area worksheets provide extra challenge for Year 5 children. A variety of area problems are spread across three sections, enabling you to use the whole sheet during a lesson or to select specific problems for different teaching sessions.
A separate answer sheet for all sections is included.
NOTE: THESE SHEETS MUST BE PRINTED AT 100% IN ORDER FOR THE MEASUREMENTS TO BE ACCURATE.