Help your child learn: Age 8–9

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Fun learning ideas

Simple games and activities to do with your 8–9-year-old child. Have fun together while developing skills!

What to expect in Year 4

Year 4 is all about confidence, fun, and times tables! Find out exactly what to expect and how you can support your child at home.

What happens in Year 4?

Year 4 multiplication tables check

The multiplication tables check is an online test for pupils in Year 4. Find out what it involves and how you can help your child at home.

What is the times tables check?

Reading skills

Find out how to help your child at home as they grow in reading confidence.

Reading: Age 8–9

English skills

Find out how your child’s reading, writing, and speaking develops at school and how to help.

English: Age 8–9

Maths skills

Discover the maths skills your child learns at school and ideas for helping at home.

Maths: Age 8–9

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Choosing a book

Beverley Humphrey offers her expert advice on choosing the right book for your 7–11-year-old.

How to pick a book

Creative writing

Four fun activities to spark your child’s imagination and get them writing.

Ideas for creative writing

Bond puzzle books

Fun puzzle books featuring word, number, and logic problems. It’s education by stealth!

Bond Brain Training for Kids

Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Age 8–9

Progress with Oxford

This activity book will help your child to progress with their handwriting while having fun. It focuses on developing these key skills, taught in school for Year 4, as part of the Key Stage 2 curriculum. View product

Handwriting Age 8–9

Progress with Oxford

This activity book will help your child to progress with their handwriting while having fun. They will become confident with the formation of letters and practice cursive writing, including joining up letters and using spaces. View product

Number Puzzles

Bond Brain Training | Age 8–11

This puzzle book has been created to develop children's ability with numbers through problem-solving. The book is packed with number-based puzzles that are broken into Warm-up, Intermediate and Tricky levels, so that children can take on the challenge they feel best suits them. View product

The Accidental Father Christmas

Tom McLaughlin | Age 8+

Ben’s starting to get a bit sceptical about Father Christmas’s existence, he needs proof. So, on Christmas Eve, he sets up an elaborate booby trap to capture the jolly bearded fella ... View product