This free ‘Tangram Zoo’ worksheet is a fun activity to run with your class when working on shape and geometry projects. A hands-on activity getting children to build animals from different shapes while following a clear set of rules. This resource is also great for use by parents for home-schooling. A fun and engaging way to get your child practising their understanding of shapes and learning all about tangrams along the way What does this activity include? • Definition of a tangram • Set of rules that children must follow when constructing their animals • Geometric shapes to cut out and colour to build their tangrams. Do check out our other fun resources available on our TES shop or head to our website to find out more about our mission to nurture fearless learners.

This activity sheet supports students to create characters when story writing. Perfect to use when running as project about story writing and characterisation. This resource is great for use by parents for home-schooling too. A great way to help make a child’s story more engaging to the reader. What does this free activity sheet include? • An example character profile • A complete your own character profile template including (Name, appearance, location, likes & dislikes, hobbies and personality.) • Word bank to support students with character descriptions. This resource can be printed out and used as a worksheet or simply used on screen as a guide for the activities. Do check out our other fun resources available on our TES shop or head to our website to find out more about our mission to nurture fearless learners.

This free ‘Easter egg maths’ worksheet is a fun activity to run with your class in the lead up to Easter while practising their understanding of shape terms. This resource is also great for use by parents for home-schooling. A fun and engaging way to get your child practising their understanding of key terms like parallel and perpendicular. What does this activity include? • Tick box activities for children to identify which eggs have parallel or perpendicular lines. • Identify which lines represent a line of symmetry on some patterned eggs. Do check out our other fun resources available on our TES shop or head to our website to find out more about our mission to nurture fearless learners.

This free activity sheet is all about celebrating differences. Children reflect on what makes them unique, their hobbies and interests. A great whole school exercise that could link into a wider project on diversity and identity. This resource is also great for use by parents for home-schooling. A fun and engaging way to introduce your child to the topic of identity and celebrating differences in people. What does the activity include? • Activity 1 What makes you, you? - Draw a picture of yourself and answer what kind of person you are. What are 3 favourite things about yourself? • Activity 2 Celebrating differences – Children answer a series of questions with one word • Activity 3 The people around me – Children reflect on their family and friends around them celebrating their differences. Do check out our other fun resources available on our TES shop or head to www.explorelearning.co.uk to find out more about our mission to nurture fearless learners.

This free problem-solving worksheet is a fun activity to run with your class to help with their problem-solving skills. With 3 different activities to hunt down the clues for the egg thief, this activity sheet will put your student’s problem-solving skills to the test. This resource is also great for use by parents for home-schooling. A fun and engaging way to get your child practising their problem-solving skills, not to mention a great learning activity to complete during the Easter holidays. What does this activity include? • Who’s the culprit activity – solving number statements to work out who did the crime? • When did it happen? – Activity getting children to solve number sequence problems to work out when the crime took place. • Where did it happen? – Value of shapes problem solving exercise where children to the final missing piece of the puzzle into place! Do check out our other fun resources available on our TES shop or head to our website to find out more about our mission to nurture fearless learners.

This activity sheet supports students to create settings when writing a story. Perfect to use when running as project about story writing. This resource is great for use by parents for home-schooling too. A great way to help make a child’s story more engaging for the reader. What does this activity include? Example setting description with matching picture. Contrasting pictures as inspiration for children to write their own description ( Icy landscape, Landfill site) Finally children create their own setting using a picture, drawing or magazine cutting for inspiration. Children describe the setting and include the 5 senses in their description. This resource can be printed and used as a worksheet, or shared digitally and used as a guide. Do check out our other fun resources available on our TES shop or head to our website to find out more about our mission to nurture fearless learners.

This free activity sheet is a great resource to use when teaching poetry to your class and introduces them to limericks. Children have to complete limericks with missing lines and then go on to do some rhyming practice. Finally, it’s their turn to have a go at writing a limerick of their very own! This resource is also great for use by parents for home-schooling. A fun and engaging way to introduce your child to the topic of limericks! What does this activity include? • Introduction to the characteristics of limericks • Example limerick from Edward Lear’s A Book of Nonsense • Complete the missing lines from limericks • Rhyming practice – Write as many words as possible that rhyme with the chosen words • Write your own limerick Do check out our other fun resources available on our TES shop or head to our website to find out more about our mission to nurture fearless learners.

A fun craft activity getting children to build and make their own piggy bank. Perfect to use when talking about the subject of money and saving. This resource is great for use by parents for home-schooling too. A great way to help your child think about saving money in a creative way, as well as introducing them to the idea of 3D shape nets. What does this activity sheet include? 3D cube net template and instructions for creating a piggy bank. Saving goal and money slot printed on the design Activity encouraging children to keep a record of the money that goes into the piggy bank to help practice their addition skills. Do check out our other fun resources available on our TES shop or head to our website to find out more about our mission to nurture fearless learners.

Are you teaching your class about newspapers? Are you looking for an activity to share with your class over the School Holidays? Then this ‘Explorer Newspaper’ activity pack is the perfect resource for you. Packed with fun activities for children to complete and build their very own newspaper issue! This resource is also great for use by parents for home-schooling. 10 different activities make up this free activity pack, spanning topics from Interviewing to debating. What do children cover in the pack? • Activity 1 - Design their own cover page to stand out from the crowd! • Activity 2- ‘The star interview’ putting their interviewing skills to the test. • Activity 3 - ‘The comic book adventure’ complete their very own comic strip to entertain their readers. • Activity 4 – ‘The big debate’ Making for and against statements on the topic or ‘Are screens good or bad for us?’ • Activity 5 - ‘Around the world’ Share facts about a selection of countries from around the world with their readers. • Activity 6 – ‘Agony aunt’ Create their own agony aunt column giving advice to readers. • Activity 7 – ‘Design your own football kit’ To celebrate the upcoming 2022 FIFA women’s world cup. • Activity 8 – ‘Recipe master’ Children share a recipe for their favourite food or a dish they have cooked recently. • Activity 9 - ‘Games corner’ Sudoku, crossword and word wheel challenges to put their brains to the test. • Activity 10 – ‘Your home activities’ Sharing stories and pictures about what their family have been up to recently and what they loved the most. Do check out our other fun resources available on our TES shop or head to our website to find out more about our mission to nurture fearless learners.

This activity sheet supports students to think about dilemmas that could appear when writing a story. Perfect to use when running a project about story writing. This resource is great for use by parents for home-schooling too. A great way to help make a child’s story more engaging to the reader. What does this free activity include? • Picture prompts of different dilemmas (eg. Deforestation, pollution) • Word bank to support students with descriptive language. This resource can be printed out and used as a worksheet or simply used on screen as a guide for the activities. Do check out our other fun resources available on our TES shop or head to our website to find out more about our mission to nurture fearless learners.

This free worksheet is a fun crafty maths activity to run with your class to practice their understanding of symmetry. Perfect to use at the end of a topic looking at symmetry or as an extension or homework task. This resource is also great for use by parents for home-schooling. A fun and engaging way to get your child practising their understanding of symmetry. What does the activity include? • Symmetrical tiles activity where students need to design some special tiles for a customer’s kitchen, but all the designs must be symmetrical. • Extra task where they have to identify tessellating patterns. This activity sheet can be printed or used as a digital resource for reference purposes. Do check out our other fun resources available on our TES shop or head to our website to find out more about our mission to nurture fearless learners.

FREE worksheet inspired by Disney and Pixar’s Soul Encourage your class to reflect on what makes you, you? Take a look at all of the individual bits of you that together make you brilliant.

FREE worksheet inspired by Disney and Pixar’s Soul Do your students know that there’s a lot of maths in music? Delve into this activity where we practise our fractions using a music sheet. Encourage your children to discover their passions with our free educational activity sheets inspired by Disney and Pixar’s Soul.

FREE worksheet inspired by Disney and Pixar’s Soul Get your students to write a postcard that has come from yourself from one year in the future – look ahead and tell yourself what you have achieved. Encourage your children to discover their passions with our free educational activity sheets inspired by Disney & Pixar’s Soul.

FREE worksheet inspired by Disney and Pixar’s Soul Do your pupil’s fancy themselves as a bit of a film critic? Now’s the chance as they write a professional and compelling film review.

FREE Workshop resources inspired by Disney & Pixar’s Soul In this workshop ‘Discover the Rhythm of your Imagination’, we encourage children to explore the characteristics of music and think about the emotions music evokes! Your students will then go on to unleash their imagination to bring out the inner lyricist within them! We have created two versions of the workshop resources to tailor to differing age or ability groups. We recommended downloading both packs so that you are able to judge the ability of your own class and decide upon the appropriate activity for them.

This free ‘Maths in maps’ activity sheet is a great activity to run with your class to help practise their understanding of coordinates and direction. Children head to ‘Discovery town’ where they have to help provide directions around a map using coordinates. Children then go on to create their own map of a place familiar to them. This resource is also great for use by parents for home-schooling. A fun and engaging way to get your child practising their coordinates skills. WHat does this activity include? • Map of ‘Discovery town’ with questions they need to solve to successfully navigate around town. • Blank coordinate grid for children to make a map of their own Do check out our other fun resources available on our TES shop or head to www.explorelearning.co.uk to find out more about our mission to nurture fearless learners.

A great hands-on activity for students to practise their 2D & 3D shapes knowledge. Perfect to be used as an extension task, end of topic recap or set as a homework activity too. This resource is also ideal for use by parents for home schooling too. What does this worksheet involve? • Children recap names of 2D & 3D shapes • Recreate 2D & 3D Shapes in physical form using objects Spaghetti & Marshmallows (or similar e.g., Blue-Tac) • Practise their knowledge of key terms such as edges and vertices. This resource can be printed out and used as a worksheet or simply used on screen as a guide for the activities. Looking for more? Do check out our other fun resources available on our TES shop or head to our website to find out more about our mission to nurture fearless learners.

Check out this short workshop video where we introduce the amazing world of coding. This resource is also great for use by parents for homeschooling. If your child loves games and is fascinated by all things coding, why not have a go at this workshop together. What does the workshop involve? Our data scientist Emily introduces what coding is, what it’s used for and talks about all the job opportunities children could get through coding. Children will be shown how to write code to create a dance party. They will learn to control which characters are used, which music plays and how and when the characters move all by writing code. Do check out our other fun resources available on our TES shop or head to our website to find out more about our mission to nurture fearless learners.

This story-writing activity sheet supports students to think about the order of events and their significance when writing and constructing stories. Perfect to use when running a project about story writing. This resource is great for use by parents for home-schooling too. A great way to help your child thinK about the order of events for their latest story project. What does the activity include? • Picture prompts showing 3 different events that are happening in a story. • Students to think about what each of these events might be and to write them down. • They are then encouraged to think about re-ordering the events to see what impact or change this might have on the outcome of the story. • Finally students are asked to design the next scene of the story themselves. This resource can be printed out and used as a worksheet or simply used on screen as a guide for the activities. Do check out our other fun resources available on our TES shop or head to our website to find out more about our mission to nurture fearless learners.