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Turning and Reflecting Shapes practice for Reception – Year 4

Reasoning & puzzles · Spatial Thinking · Early Years (EYFS), Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2. Turning, reflecting and folding shapes in your head.

What your child will learn

• Predict the direction of an object after a quarter or half turn.
• Distinguish letters and shapes from their mirror images.
• Visualise how shapes combine and fit together.
• Select, rotate and fit shapes, knowing a shape stays the same when it is turned.
• Predict the result of reflecting and rotating shapes, letters and directions.
• Imagine how nets fold into cubes and other 3-D shapes, and count faces, edges and vertices.

Try some free turning and reflecting shapes questions

These are real BrightWorld questions. In the app, every question adapts to your child’s level and comes with hints and worked examples.

How BrightWorld helps with turning and reflecting shapes

Children practise turning and reflecting shapes at Easy, Medium or Hard, in mixed quizzes, in the Answer Run game and inside story missions. If they get stuck, they get a hint and a worked example; if they’re flying, the questions get harder. Parents see how they’re doing in the parent area.