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Reception Downloads

Your reception child may need a little extra help with so many new things to learn. Our free printable worksheets help to support foundation stage learning. Primary school infants will love trying out our fun activity downloads and worksheets packed with great exercises to enhance the learning of reception children.
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Say 'thank you' with this free certificate for your teacher!
Get the kids to thank their teachers at the end of the school year with this fantastic printable certificate!
Gardening for kids
A great way to help children learn about nature, the environment, not to mention healthy eating, is to encourage them to try a spot of gardening. This gardening for kids activity sheet will show you how!
Learning to swim
Learning to swim is a huge part of a child's development. Help your child make a splash with this helpful activity download.
Outdoor learning - Trekking and walking
Give your child a taste of outdoor learning by taking them on an organised walk. This fact-sheet will help you think about all the different things your child could learn while out and about.
Camping for kids
Stuck for kids' activities? Try this handy camping fact-sheet full of ideas and ways to get the kids enjoying the outdoor life. And it's full of learning potential too!
Spelling words - Crossing the river
This resource will help your child develop their understanding of compounds through a fun worksheet which will aid them when spelling words as they attempt to 'cross the river'.
Spelling game - code race
This resource is great for helping children enhance their spelling skills in a fun and challenging way. Children are in a race against each other to try and discover words behind the number codes.
Learning games - Big wheel
Big Wheel is a great learning game for you and your children to participate in together.
Spelling games- Blend rummy
This fun spelling game worksheet combines spelling with the classic card game rummy and will help develop your child's spelling skills.
Learning how to spell - Cat beetle
This worksheet is great for helping your child learn how to spell. Children take turns in spelling words from their personal word bank, when they spell a word correctly they draw parts of cat on a piece of paper, the first player to complete the cat drawing is the winner!
Spelling games - Dragon gold
This fun spelling game will help your child's memory and spelling skills. Two or more children challenge each other to try and find the dragon's gold.
Spelling games - Stop thief!
This spelling activity helps children to practice their spelling skills while taking part in a fun and challenging game.
Spelling test - Clue cards
Spelling tests have never been so fun with this great downloadble worksheet.
Spelling words - Climb down
Spelling words has never been so fun with this great worksheet that children can play with each other or with an adult.
Phonics worksheets - Alphabet dinners
Alphabet Dinners, part of our series of phonics worksheets, will help your child to practise and score alphabetic letter knowledge and alphabetic order.
Maths worksheets - Matching sets of objects
This maths worksheet helps your child practice matching sets of objects up to the number five.
Year 1 maths - Counting up to 10
This Year 1 maths download helps your child practise counting up to 10.
Maths problems - Counting back in ones
This maths problem helps your child practise counting back in ones.
Printable work sheets - 1st, 2nd and 3rd
This printable work sheet helps your child practise using the phrases first, second and third.
Foundation stage and year 1 maths - Counting past 10
This foundation stage and year 1 maths download helps your child practise counting past 10.
Foundation Stage and Year 1 maths - One less than...
Foundation Stage and Year 1 maths worksheet. This is a very simple game for two players aimed at reinforcing the term ‘one less than’ with numbers up to six.
Maths quiz - Pyramid Circles
A great, fun maths quiz for encouraging logical thinking as you remove the counters from the board. Who can take the most? Is it just a matter of luck? This game is quite a challenge for young children.
Math quiz - Triangular addition
A simple maths quiz for two players for helping to make a total of 10.
Tale of Despereaux
To celebrate the release of The Tale of Despereaux on 19th December we have a special wordsearch avaliable to download.
Budget Tracker Spreadsheet
This comprehensive budget tracker will help you keep track of your finances. The spreadsheet will help you keep track of your spending over 12 months.
Basic Budgeting worksheet
This basic budgeting worksheet will help you to clearly see your monthly income and expenditure.
PTA - Representing other parents
Parent governors are elected by all the parents/carers of the pupils at the school. But how exactly do they manage to keep in touch with what parents' views are?
How a parent governor can make a difference
This article looks at events that have brought a parent governor face to face with some tough fundamental questions. How do governors make a difference? How best can governors, headteachers and the senior management team work together to meet their vision? And where do the boundaries lie between them?
One parents experience of being a School Governor
Here's how one parent govenor faced the task of appointing a new headteacher in an outer London borough primary school.
Personal Budget Worksheet
Use this form to determine what you have been spending over the last 6 months or year. You can then use the form to prepare a new budget with new goals and targets shown in each spending category.
Homework help - Helping your child with their homework
This download will give you some advice for when your helping your child with their homework. Particular for those times when your child looks for support in the subjects that you struggled with at school
How to help your child get used to a new teacher
This parenting guide suggests some ways for you to help make the settling-in period with a new teacher easier for your child to manage.
Children's safety - How children learn to be safe
As they grow, children need opportunities to learn how to live safely. This leaflet children's safety explains some ways in which your child learns to be safe and provides a few examples of how you can help.
My children can't concentrate
If you're worried that your child or children doesn't seem to be able to concentrate - at school or at home - there are many possible explanations. This leaflet outlines these reasons and suggests ways in which you can help your child.
Worksheet - Peer Pressure
This worksheet will help your child to consider peer pressure and different ways of responding to it and consider how to get help.
Child safety - Making Choices
This child safety worksheet will help your child to organise thoughts and ideas on making healthy, safe choices.
Bullying in school - I think my child is being bullied
Bullying in school happens as much as in other walks of life. Children are particulary affected by it. If you're worried that your child is being bullied, this leaflet explains things you can do to recognise it, understand it, stop it and make sure it doesn't happen again.
Hobbies and activities - Learning to swim
Swimming is fun and healthy - and once mastered will give your child the chance to take part in lots of other water-based hobbies and activities like surfing, canoeing and sailing.
Table manners - Eating out
Going to restaurants for lunch or supper can be an exciting treat for the whole family - the children get to choose what they eat, and someone else does the washing up! It's also a good opportunity to brush up on table manners, to talk and to discover new foods.
Visiting a farm with children
There are few trips that delight children more than a visit to the farm - but shh, don't tell them they'll be enhancing important personal and thinking skills in subjects such as science, geography and citizenship.
Hobbies and activities - Building a tree house
This hobbies and activities leaflet from My Child is an introduction to building a tree house.
National curriculum - Imaginative play
This national curriculum leaflet looks at how your child learns through imaginative play and what you can do to help.
Early learning - Watching TV
This early learning leaflet provides suggestions for things you can do to help your child get the most out of television.
Hobbies and activities - Play with sand and water
This hobbies and activities leaflet looks at ways in which you can provide water, sand and mud play for your child and help them to learn at the same time.
Early learning - Going shopping
Although shopping with your child can sometimes be a pain, it can also be a fun early learning opportunity to play games and help your child learn.
Starting school
How can you help your child starting school, happily and confidently with as few problems and anxieties as possible? In this leaflet we explain the things that you can do to help your child prepare for school.
Starting School
Starting school for the first time is a very special event for both parents and children and you will want to be sure that your child is well prepared for the big day.
Early learning - I'm Late!
This early learning activity will help your child to plan ways to solve a problem safely.
National curriculum - Exercises
This national curriculum activity will encourage children to take part in various exercises.
Writing worksheets - Capital Letters
This writing worksheet will help your child to recognise and use capital letters