What do Year 1 learn in Maths Year 1 is the first year of Key Stage 1 and what Year 1 learn in maths, will set the foundation for Year 2. Children will no longer have access to free all day, they will now follow the timetable for the rest of the school and have …
What do Year 2 learn in Maths Year 2 is the end of Key Stage 1 and what Year 2 learn in Maths, will set the foundation for Key Stage 2. The Maths curriculum has changed in recent years and there is a bigger emphasis on application of skills. This means that children no longer …
https://youtu.be/9xC931Mk0pk Stone Age Boy – Literacy resources for Year 3/4 This half term in English, we are looking at the book Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura. I’m using this book, because it ties in really well with the topic of Stone Age in History and Materials in Science. As the focus in Maths is …
I haven’t got a timetable – what should I do? When your child is off school, the biggest challenge is to get them to do school work. Homework is bad enough, but school work too? What you need is a kinaesthetic timetable. Let’s assume they are going to be off for at least 2 weeks, …
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Factors and Multiples Factors and multiples cause a lot of confusion throughout primary school. This is how it works… Factors are the numbers you times together, while the multiple is the answer. So the factors of 6 would be: 1, 2, 3 , 6 (these times together to make 6) 1 x 6 = 62 x 3 = …
In Year 1, children need to understand suffixes, in particular those ending in -ed. These words change the tense of the sentence, when suffixes are added to the verbs or doing words. Therefore, their use in sentences also changes. For example: when the suffix -ed is added to these root words hunt -> hunted shows …
In Year 1 and 2, children need to understand suffixes, in particular those ending in -ing. These words change the tense of the sentence, when suffixes are added to the verbs or doing words. Therefore, their use in sentences also changes. For example: when the suffix -ing is added to root words, it shows that …
In Year 3, children need to understand that adding a prefix to the beginning of another word can change the meaning of that word entirely. When adding ‘un’ to the beginning of a word, the word changes to mean its antonym or opposite meaning. Learning prefixes also helps with decoding words when reading and when …
In Year 5, children need to understand that adverbials tell us when, where, why or how a verb happens. They are used to give us more information and make our writing more interesting. For example: He tripped and fell because his laces were undone. – because his laces were undone, tells us why it happened …
In Year 6, children need to understand that there are many words in the English language which sound the same, but are often spelt differently. They also have completely different meanings, such as: Plain and plane. If a word has the same spelling and same sound but a different meaning, it is called a homonym. …