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Key Stage 1 (5 - 7 year olds)

Schofield & Sims resources are written by experienced teachers to support the Early Years Foundation Stage and the National Curriculum for key stages 1 and 2. Focusing on the core subjects of maths, English and science, many of our books are suitable for whole-school use.

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First Mental Arithmetic View Series

First Mental Arithmetic provides carefully graded questions that develop children's essential mathematics skills. A downwards extension of the Schofield & Sims bestseller Mental Arithmetic, the workbooks contain a Language of Maths glossary to develop number vocabulary and three check-ups to assess understanding.

Age group: 5 to 7 | Author: Ann Montague-Smith

Complete ComprehensionView Series

Complete Comprehension is the essential companion for teaching reading comprehension in your school. Written by a team of expert authors, it provides you with everything you need to develop the individual comprehension skills identified in the National Curriculum, alongside the broader vocabulary and background knowledge required for effective reading comprehension.

Age group: 5 to 11 | Author: Jo Gray, Laura Lodge, Jane Sowerby

First Mental Arithmetic Answers View Series

First Mental Arithmetic provides carefully graded questions that develop children's essential mathematics skills. A downwards extension of the Schofield & Sims bestseller Mental Arithmetic, the books contain a Language of Maths glossary to develop number vocabulary and three check-ups assess understanding.

Age group: 5 to 7 | Author: Ann Montague-Smith

Fractions, Decimals and Percentages View Series

Schofield & Sims Fractions, Decimals and Percentages is a comprehensive programme that supports a mastery approach to teaching and learning this tricky area of maths. Comprising six pupil books and six accompanying teacher’s guides, this structured series helps children to develop a deep, secure and adaptable understanding of fractions, building up to decimals, percentages, ratio and proportion.

Age group: 5 to 11 | Author: Steve Mills and Hilary Koll

Grammar and PunctuationView Series

Comprising six pupil books and six accompanying teacher’s guides, one for each primary school year, Schofield & Sims Grammar and Punctuation is a comprehensive programme for teaching grammar and punctuation while also building on vocabulary, reading and writing skills.

Age group: 5 to 11 | Author: Carol Matchett

KS1 SATs 10-Minute Tests View Series

The 10-Minute Tests are short, timed tests designed to consolidate skills and build speed and confidence as children approach the SATs. Ideal for independent work sessions at home, the tests provide essential bite-sized practice of key national test topics.

Age group: 6 to 7 | Author: Steve Mills, Hilary Koll, Belle Cottingham, Carol Matchett, Rachel Lopiccolo

My Letters and Sounds Teacher Handbooks View Series

The My Letters and Sounds Teacher Handbooks include everything you need to teach systematic synthetic phonics with confidence. Based on a more robust and fully resourced version of the original 2007 Letters and Sounds, the handbooks provide a high level of support, both for teachers that are new to phonics teaching and for more experienced practitioners looking for planning that matches the latest best practice.

Age group: 4 to 6 | Author: Carol Matchett

My Spelling Book View Series

My Spelling Book allows children to record and practise spellings using the strategy, ‘Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check’. Perfect for weekly spelling practice, the book contains space for 40 sets of 15 spellings. 

Age group: 7 to 11 | Author: Schofield & Sims

My Times Tables Book View Series

My Times Tables Book helps to build fluency and confidence in times tables. Matching the pace and coverage of the Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check, the book contains 40 sets of times tables questions, each of which is designed to be completed in two-and-a-half minutes. 

Age group: 7 to 11 | Author: Schofield & Sims

Primary Practice View Series

Primary Practice is the must-have series for mastery of the English and maths curriculums. With high expectations for all learners, these books use a structured approach to ensure children develop a deep understanding of key knowledge and skills.

Age group: 4 to 11 | Author: Sarah-Anne Fernandes, Trevor Dixon, Emma Scott, Giles Clare

WriteWellView Series

Schofield & Sims WriteWell is a complete course designed to guide children from their first steps in mark-making towards the development of secure, fluent and comfortable joined handwriting that can be adapted for a range of purposes.

Age group: 3 to 11 | Author: Carol Matchett

My Reading Record Key Stage 1 View Series

Schofield & Sims reading records help to ensure effective communication between schools and those reading with children at home. Practical notes explain the importance of reading at home and outline the priorities for children's reading at the appropriate key stage, while vocabulary lists and review pages encourage children and adults to take an active role in reading.

Age group: 5 to 7 | Author: Carolyn Richardson

Handwriting Practice View Series

The Handwriting Practice books are fully compatible with any school handwriting scheme and work methodically through letters and joins. The simple format of the books enables children to work independently, and workbook-style exercises, such as copying items onto a menu, consolidate learning.

Age group: 5 to 11 | Author: Carol Matchett

KS1 SATs Revision Guides View Series

The SATs Revision Guides are designed to boost children’s knowledge of key topics and skills as they approach the SATs. Clear explanations, worked examples and colourful illustrations ensure that information is presented in a way that is easy for children to understand and remember.

Age group: 6 to 7 | Author: Hilary Koll, Steve Mills, Carol Matchett

My Homework Diary View Series

My Homework Diary provides structured pages for noting each homework task, the due date, and a spelling rule for the week. The book includes diary pages for the whole school year, grids for timetables, class rules and individual targets, as well as tips on how to tackle homework.

Age group: 7 to 11 | Author:

My Letters and Sounds Phonics Practice Pupil Books View Series

The My Letters and Sounds Phonics Practice Pupil Books can be used flexibly, at school or at home, to consolidate the work done in the daily phonics teaching session. They provide practice in the key phonic skills of grapheme recognition and recall, blending to read and segmenting to spell, and build children’s confidence in reading and writing captions and sentences.

Age group: 4 to 6 | Author: Carol Matchett

Telling the Time View Series

Telling the time is a vital life skill. Schofield & Sims Telling the Time breaks this difficult topic down into a sequence of manageable ideas that young learners can approach at their own pace. Beginning with child-friendly explanations of times of day and units of time, the series moves on to introduce telling the time on an analogue clock, before progressing to cover a wide range of related topics, including different ways of measuring and representing time, time expressions and everyday time problems. 

Age group: 5 to 9 | Author: Christine Shaw

First Comprehension View Series

First Comprehension provides an early introduction to written comprehension, developing children’s enthusiasm for reading and their ability to interpret texts. A downwards extension of the award-winning Key Stage 2 Comprehension, First Comprehension is suitable for children who have not previously attempted formal written comprehension.

Age group: 6 to 8 | Author: Celia Warren

My School Diary View Series

My School Diary helps to ensure strong home–school communication and encourages children to take ownership of their work. Diary pages include space for children to record their homework throughout the year, while a structured Reading log allows an
adult to keep track of the child’s reading at home, recording the pages read and making any appropriate notes for the teacher.

Age group: 7 to 11 | Author:

SpellingView Series

Schofield & Sims Spelling is a structured programme designed for Years 1 to 6. This accessible series, ideal for whole-school use, gives pupils extensive practice in using their phonic knowledge to spell words and encourages them to become effective spellers.

Age group: 5 to 6 | Author: Carol Matchett

KS1 SATs Practice Papers View Series

The SATs Practice Papers provide up-to-date practice material for pupils preparing to sit the maths and English national tests in 2024 and beyond. Closely matched to the National Curriculum test frameworks, the papers mirror both the appearance and content of the real tests and offer realistic practice of test-style questions. 

Age group: 6 to 7 | Author: Hilary Koll, Steve Mills, Carol Matchett

My Letters and Sounds Phase Five Readers View Series

The My Letters and Sounds Phonics Readers are exciting, fully decodable stories that perfectly match the progression of the My Letters and Sounds SSP programme. Phase Five Readers introduce 18GPCs as well as tricky words ‘love’, ‘looked’, ‘oh’, ‘people’, ‘their’, ‘your’, ‘Mr’, ‘Mrs’, ‘asked’, ‘called’, ‘could’, ‘would’, ‘should’, ‘our’, ‘here’, ‘house’, ‘mouse’, ‘water’, ‘want’, ‘who’, ‘whole’, ‘where’, ‘any’, ‘many’, ‘two’, ‘school’, ‘work’, ‘different’, ‘thought’, ‘friend’, ‘through’, ‘once’, ‘eye’, ‘laughed’, ‘because’, ‘beautiful’, ‘hour’, ‘parent’, ‘shoe’, ‘move’ and ‘improve’. In Phase Five, the non-fiction texts include more sophisticated non-fiction devices, such as fact boxes and simple diagrams. Many of the non-fiction texts in this Phase also include photographs.

Age group: 5 to 7 | Author: Clare Helen Welsh, Isabel Thomas, Hawys Morgan

Times Tables Tests View Series

The Times Tables Tests series helps to secure children's knowledge and application of essential multiplication and division facts and to develop their understanding of number vocabulary. Tests are similar in format to those in Mental Arithmetic and may be used in conjunction with this series or independently.

Age group: 6 to 11 | Author: Hilary Koll and Steve Mills

Early Comprehension View Series

Early Comprehension develops children's ability to make sense of pictures and text through activities such as story sequencing, reading for meaning and traditional comprehension work. Exercises are put in a 'real-world' context and texts include advertisements, book covers and speech bubbles.

Age group: 5 to 7 | Author: Anne Forster and Paul Martin

KS1 Problem Solving View Series

KS1 Problem Solving is a series of graded books which help children to sharpen their mathematical skills by applying their knowledge to a range of 'real-life' situations, such as shopping and telling the time. Exercises include addition and subtraction, shapes and their properties and concepts of time.

Age group: 5 to 7 | Author: Anne Forster and Paul Martin

Learn Your Times Tables View Series

Learn Your Timestables helps children to understand and memorise essential multiplication facts. Together, the books cover all the times tables required by the National Curriculum for Key Stages 1 and 2, including the x11 and x12 times tables.

Age group: 5 to 11 | Author: Hilary Koll and Steve Mills

Mental Maths View Series

The Mental Maths series develops children's ability to understand number problems and to use their knowledge to resolve these problems confidently and logically. Clear, carefully structured exercises build children's mathematical knowledge and mental agility, focusing particularly on number, shape, measures and time.

Age group: 5 to 7 | Author: Anne Forster and Paul Martin

Times Tables Practice View Series

Times Tables Practice gives children extensive practice in the times tables relevant to their age group, providing enjoyable activities with attractive illustrations that will hold their attention throughout. Both books end with number problems and 'What I know' pages designed to build children's confidence and reinforce learning.

Age group: 5 to 11 | Author: Ann Montague-Smith

My Letters and Sounds e-reader phonics library View Series

The e-reader library features digital versions of every Phonics Reader from the My Letters and Sounds programme. These electronic books are provided in a flexible and secure FlippingBook format that can easily be displayed on digital devices.

Age group: 4 to 7 | Author: Schofield & Sims

Key Stage 1 Science Revision Guide View Series

Closely matched to the National Curriculum, the Key Stage 1 Science Revision Guide helps children to revise what they have learnt at school, in preparation for the end of key stage tests. Clearly presented examples and colourful illustrations help bring revision to life, while targeted practice questions highlight any gaps in understanding.

Age group: 5 to 7 | Author: Penny Johnson

My Letters and Sounds Year 1 Resources and Classroom KitsView Series

The My Letters and Sounds Year 1 Resources and Classroom Kits feature over 700 durable, colour versions of the core teaching resources used frequently and repeatedly in Year 1 lessons.

Resources can be purchased as a kit containing everything you need or as individual components.

Age group: 5 to 7 | Author: Schofield & Sims

Number Book View Series

Number Book is a series of graded activity books designed to help children learn basic calculation skills including addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, eventually working with numbers up to 100.

Age group: 5 to 7 | Author: Andrew Parker and Jane Stamford

Picture Dictionary View Series

The Picture Dictionary features over 500 headwords, with high-frequency words shown in bold type, and provides an alphabet strip on every double-page spread. Attractive illustrations indicate the meaning of each word, and separate lists of verbs, opposites, colours, days, months and numbers to 20 are also included.

Age group: 5 to 7 | Author:

My Word Book View Series

My Word Book includes over 800 words arranged alphabetically, and a further 300 arranged by word type or theme, alongside spaces for children to add their own words. Colourful illustrations provide attractive reminders of word meanings, and space is provided for the teacher to note the child's specific targets in writing.

Age group: 5 to 7 | Author: Sally Johnson

First Dictionary View Series

The First Dictionary helps to widen children's vocabulary and develop their reading, writing and spelling skills as they transition from Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 2.

Age group: 5 to 9 | Author: Schofield & Sims

First Dictionary & Thesaurus Activities View Series

This workbook has been specially written for use with the First Illustrated Dictionary or First Dictionary and with the First Thesaurus. The activities encourage effective use of both dictionary and thesaurus, focusing on word meaning, spelling and synonyms.

Age group: 5 to 9 | Author: Carol Matchett

First Illustrated Dictionary View Series

A progression from the Picture Dictionary, the First Illustrated Dictionary contains more than 2000 headwords, as well as short forms, irregular plurals and pronunciation. Lists of colours, months, days and numbers are also given, and the dictionary is supported by the First Dictionary and Thesaurus Activities.

Age group: 5 to 9 | Author:

First Thesaurus View Series

The First Thesaurus contains more than 2000 headwords and a further 10 000 synonyms, as well as a special children's introduction to the thesaurus. The thesaurus can be used alongside the First Dictionary, and both are supported by the First Dictionary & Thesaurus Activities.

Age group: 5 to 9 | Author:

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