Story Wood School
End of Year Expectations for Year 6
This leaflet outlines information for parents and carers on the end of year expectations for pupils at our school.
The National Curriculum details these expectations as being the minimum requirements your child should meet in order to ensure continued progress.
All these objectives will be taught throughout the year. Any extra support you can provide is greatly valued.
Maths
Recognise and identify the place value of numbers up to 10,000,000
Round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy
Use negative numbers in context and calculate intervals across zero
Identify common factors, common multiples and prime numbers
Multiply a 4-digit number by a 2-digit number
Divide a 4-digit number by a 2-digit number
Use knowledge of the order of operations to complete calculations
Identify the place value of each digit to 3 decimal places
Use knowledge of decimal numbers to complete calculations including all four operations
Add and subtract fractions with different denominators e.g. 13 + 15 = 815
Multiply and divide fractions (including mixed numbers)
Calculate the percentage of amounts
Recognise the equivalence between fractions, decimals and percentages
Reading
Some objectives are similar across year groups because the skills needed are the same. The complexity of the texts increases the level of challenge.
Fluency
Read with accuracy, appropriate speed and expression.
Comprehension
Understand and explain the meanings of words in context
Retrieve and record key information from texts
Summarise the main ideas from a text
Infer characters thoughts, feelings and motives and justify these with evidence
Distinguish between statements of fact and opinion
Predict what might happen in a text from details stated and suggested.
Identify and discuss themes across a wide range of writing
Discuss and evaluate how authors use language, considering the impact on the reader
Compare between two texts
Writing
Write effectively for a range of purposes and audiences
Use a wide range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs (e.g.conjunctions, adverbials of time and place, synonyms)
In narrative writing, describe settings, characters and atmosphere
Select appropriate vocabulary
Use tenses consistently and correctly throughout writing
Use commas, brackets and dashes to indicate parenthesis
Use semi-colons and colons to mark the boundary between clauses
Use a colon to introduce a list
Use inverted commas to indicate speech
Use hyphens correctly
Spell most words correctly from the Y5/6 spelling list
Maintain legibility in joined handwriting when writing at speed