Kelly’s blog

Leading learning at home isn’t always an easy option but it’s a great way to help your child achieve their potential. Teaching is not a magical process, although us teachers like to pretend that it is. A few simple tricks and tools will help your child learn more effectively and will empower you to be more creative with your teaching. Each week I will update my blog with new ideas to help you- feel free to add suggestions and ask questions in the comments sections.

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Super Subordinating Conjunctions.

Subordinating conjunctions link a main clause (that makes sense on its own) to some extra information, a su... Read more


27 February 2026
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Perfect Punctuation Round-Up.

Do you know your speech marks from your apostrophes? Your commas from your colons? All punctuation has a jo... Read more


24 February 2026
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Finding the internal angles of 2D shapes. Wee...

You know that there are 180 degrees in a triangle, 360 degrees in a quadrilateral. But how many degrees are... Read more


04 September 2025
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Year 5 spellings revision, week beginning 7th...

Hello again. Because you had so much fun with last week's 'i before e' task, this week we are looking at th... Read more


02 July 2025
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Spelling patterns to revise. Year 5, week beg...

Everyone's favourite spelling pattern (not)! This is coming up again and again in our tests so we need to k... Read more


25 June 2025
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Highest Common Multiples (HCM) and Lowest Com...

Hello and welcome to your HCM and LCF blog. Have a play with the games below to help you revise your factor... Read more


31 March 2025
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Rounding numbers including millions and decim...

This week's learn by heart is all about rounding. You need to be able to round really, really big numbers a... Read more


25 March 2025
CHALLENGE TIME!
24.02.25. And the winners are...

Hello everyone and a HUGE well done to those children who took part in last week's poster competition. ... Read more


24 February 2025
CHALLENGE TIME!
Super Spring Shapes Challenge. Year 5.

Okay, okay, so I promised no homework this week... here's a massive challenge instead.

You need to... Read more


05 February 2025