Christmas Coordinates

Christmas coordinates for Years 4 to 6, set at three levels: reading and plotting points in the first quadrant, completing shapes, translations, and all four quadrants with reflection in the axes. Includes two mystery pictures, a code breaker, a 10-mark quiz and full answers. Print-ready PDF, 14 pages.

Christmas coordinates for Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 (KS2 position and direction), set at three star-rated levels.

What’s included (14-page A4 PDF):

• Teacher notes with a page map, National Curriculum links and the conventions used
• Learn It (2 pages): the first quadrant, “along the corridor, then up the stairs”, all four quadrants, translations, and reflecting in the x-axis and the y-axis
• Sheet 1 (1 star) – The Christmas market: write the coordinates of 6 objects and say what is at 4 points, then a mystery picture to plot and join
• Sheet 2 (2 stars) – Presents and moves: find the fourth corner of a rectangle and a square, and work out and describe translations. Then The elf’s route: describe and follow moves between houses on a grid
• Sheet 3 (3 stars) – All four quadrants: read 8 objects in all four quadrants, translate and reflect in the axes, find a missing corner, and plot a mystery picture in four quadrants
• Code breaker: decode a Christmas message from coordinates and write the code for a word
• Quick quiz: 10 one-mark questions
• Full answers, including drawings of the finished pictures and shapes

Every object sits on a dot where two grid lines cross, and every label is printed in words, so the pack works in black and white. Apart from the origin, every coordinate answer has two different numbers, so a reversed pair (y, x) is always a wrong answer. In the code breaker, reading a pair the wrong way round gives a different letter. Negative numbers use a true minus sign.

Name/date line on pupil pages. British English spelling. Clear, dyslexia-friendly font (Andika). Simple original illustrations.

This resource was created with AI assistance (Claude), then fact-checked and proofread in a separate review pass.