Hello and welcome to learn by hearts!

Learning square and cube numbers by heart, so that they can be recognised easily and immediately, is...

Hello everyone. 

Converting length is an important skill for any child to master. The 11+ requires children to solve word problems inv...

This week's learn by heart is imperial measures (length). Although our children are well versed in using the metric system, I must confess that I s...

Of all the content taught for 11+ maths preparation, time is the strangest. Telling the time, converting units of time, using the 24 hour clock, re...

Learning to use a calendar correctly is a really important skill. For this week's learn by heart, the children need to learn the '30 days have Sept...

Converting weight- whether grams and kilograms during baking or converting between kg and pounds/ stones when we are weighed- is probably the most...

And now for something completely different.

Children should learn the names and properties of 2D shapes in Key Stage 1 however, the huge em...

This week, you will learn the phrase 'iced sausages.' It will remain with you throughout your life and, anytime you hear the words 'isosceles,' you...

Knowing a few equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages saves time in tests. Knowing that 1/4 is the same as 0.25 is the same as 25% also enab...

Very often in the 11+ exams, children are asked to solve problems involving angles such as calculating missing angles in triangles or finding the a...

This week, we are learning the vocabulary associated with circles. The children need to know the following terms and their meanings: 

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 This week, we are learning the names of the most common 3D shapes. You need to know what the following shapes look like: 

cube-...

Ah, the joys of geometry. So much vocabulary to learn and so much fun to be had! You need to know the different types of quadrilateral, their names...

This week, we are mind-mapping and reviewing our shape vocabulary. We won't be returning to this in our learn by hearts so it's important to make s...

Being able to read and analyse data from charts and tables is very useful in real life, it's also very useful for answering 11+ maths questions! As...

This week's learn by hearts are a continuation of data handling- mean, median, range and mode. All of you lovely children will, this week, need to...

This week, we are revising prime numbers. I have found a fantastic song to help you remember them all- WARNING *** this song is highly memorable an...

We make decisions about pobability all the time when we consider how likely things are to - or not to- happen. For example, if you...

Co-ordinates are lots of fun as well as being extremely useful in real life. If you want to explore the world or simply find the nearest McDonalds...

Welcome to your very first English 'Learn by Heart' target. For English, these are more revision games than new learning and they should help you t...

Knowing, by heart, the basic fraction, decimal and percentage equivalences makes a huge difference in maths. Esentially, children can answer questi...

The vocabulary associated with 3D shape is well worth knowing off by heart. You need to know how many faces, edges and vertices common 3D shapes ha...

Roman numerals are usually taught in Year 4 and, if you love them, you are not alone. They are fun to learn and write. Follow the links for a revis...

In these days of Google maps and sat-nav you might wonder why we need to be able to follow and create directions using north, south, east and west....

You might not know this, but you read from unlabelled scales all of the time- when you tell the time on a clock without numbers (or with Roman Nume...

Ah nets. Not the type that you catch crabs in, the type that cause you to scratch your head in despair during the 11+ maths exam. Basically, a net...

Ah, area and perimeter, how we've missed you. We all know that to find the area of a shape you multiply its length by its width and that perimeter...

This week's learn by heart target is about the trickier aspects of time. Your activity booklet includes activities on: 

Daylight savin...

As we come to the end of our unit on geometry and enter the final stage of the course, we will be looking back and revising some key concepts throu...

Happy second week of the holidays everyone. To prevent boredom from creeping in, here are a few more transformations to revise: 

Trans...

This week, we will be looking at punctuation during our 11+ sessions. To help you prepare (and revise), I'd like you to revisit when to use dashes,...

You made it through the summer holidays- well done. Test after test after test! Congratulations. 

Now, with 3 weeks to go, it's time f...

With only a few days to go before the first round of 11+ tests, this week's learn by heart offers you a round-up of data handling games. It is impo...

Hello 'Class of 2023' and welcome one and all to your first learn by heart target. Learn by hearts are designed to help y...

Hello everyone and welcome to your second learn by heart target. This week, we're mastering the art of the x4 and x8 tables, it's all tremendously...

Hello everyone and welcome to your new learn by heart target: 'Knowing the names of 2D shapes.' You might assume that you know this, you probably l...

Hello everyone and welcome to this week's blog, 'Rounding to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, 10 000 and 100 000.' Although it seems like these numbers a...

As promised, this week's learn by hearts are all about those tricky halves. 

Remember: 

Half of 1= 0.5     ...

I hear your cry, 'Don't be mean! You're giving us learn by hearts AND first term assessments!' Cheer up guys, this week,...

Angle facts need to be learned by heart as you will be expected to problem solve using circles, straight lines, right angles and various different...

This week, we are nutty about nets of 3D shapes. You will have been given a net to cut out and assemble during your session- I look forward to seei...

G'day and welcome to this week's learn by heart target: know how to identify co-ordinates in all 4 quadrants. To help you defend the world against...

Hello everyone and welcome back! I hope you all had a lovely Easter break. Please don't think I'm mean but I'm giving you a range of things to lear...

This week's learn by heart is all about lovely apostrophes. To revise the work we did in our sessions this week, please play the following games un...

Hello lovely people and welcome to your new learn by heart target, 'To know the difference between- and be able to identify- verbs and adverbs .'&n...

This week we have been focussing on word classifications in our English lessons. We have looked at verbs, nouns, adverbs and a whole host of other...

Hello and welcome to this week's learn by heart which is all about multiples and factors. You need to know all about lowest common multiples (LCM)...

Hello and welcome to 'multiples and factors.' You'll hear these words used a lot in class- sometimes together, sometimes apart. But what do they ac...

Although we are resting firmly in English and Verbal Reasoning at the moment, I would still like you to revise your long multiplication. To this en...

Hello. I hope you're not in a negative mood today as you are going to be revising how to identify and calculate the difference between negative num...

Hello and welcome to 'Super Symmetry.' You need to be able to spot lines of symmetry in shapes- these are lines which split shapes equally in half....

Hello and welcome to this week's blog, 'Finding the area of triangles.' 

To find the area of a triangle, either do base x height divid...

BODMAS or BIDMAS is brilliant- no matter which way around you say it. It helps you to do calculations in the correct order. Below ar a few videos a...

This week's learn by heart is a revision of apostrophes. You need to be really comfortable with contractions and apostrophes for ownership. Take yo...

Knowing all about triangles and their properties is essential for your 11+ exams. Without knowing the properties of the different triangles, proble...

This week, you will be revising negative numbers and problem solving with temperature. Remember, a thermometer is just a vertical number line- just...

Hello and welcome back- I hope you had a wonderful summer and are ready for your newest (and best) learn by heart. This week, our LBH is to do with...

Prime numbers are numbers that only have 1 and themselves as factors. For example, the only way to make 13 is by doing 1x13. 

You need...

Hello and welcome to 'December doubles'- your learn by heart target for this week. 

Next week's lesson is going to start with a doubli...

This week's learn by heart is all about rounding. You need to be able to round really, really big numbers and really, really small ones... and ever...

Hello and welcome to your HCM and LCF blog. Have a play with the games below to help you revise your factors and multiples. Enjoy! 

Everyone's favourite spelling pattern (not)! This is coming up again and again in our tests so we need to know the rhyme, 

'i befo...