Year 6: Violet Class

Key Objectives for English and Maths are:

English Objectives:

Apply growing knowledge of root words to help read and understand new words
Maintain a positive attitude to reading and understanding what they have read
Show understanding of what they have read by inferring details summarising ideas and making predictions
Explain their ideas about a text, giving evidence from the text
Describe setting and characters when writing stories
Use appropriate punctuation, including some use of colons and semi-colons
Select appropriate vocabulary, understanding how the vocabulary can change the meaning
Use adverbs and expanded noun phrases to add detail to writing
Use a variety of sentence structures to make writing more interesting
Proof read and edit work
Use the grammar learned to improve writing

Maths Objectives:

Read, write and compare numbers up to 10,000,000 and determine the value of each digit
Round numbers to the required degree of accuracy (e.g. to the nearest 10, 100, 1000)
Multiply up to four-digit numbers by two-digit numbers using long multiplication
Divide up to four-digit numbers by two-digit numbers using long division
Solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
Use common factors to simplify fractions
Add and subtract fractions with different denominators and mixed numbers
Multiply pairs of fractions
Divide fractions by whole numbers
Understand the properties of 2D and 3D shapes
Solve problems involving finding missing angles
Use algebraic formulae
Interpret pie charts and line graphs

Reading records need to be completed at home, not on arrival at school, and handed in daily.