Guidelines for End of Term 2 Examination June 2015
Year group: Year 6
Language
TOPICS
Language skills
(spelling,
punctuation &
grammar)
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
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Investigate spelling rules and exceptions and pursue accuracy
Spell most high frequency words accurately
Identify nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs and connectives within texts
Use joined handwriting in all written work across the curriculum
Identify prepositions and pronouns within texts
Speaking and
Listening
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Speak confidently and make effective contributions in group and class discussions.
Ask questions to clarify meaning
Give an opinion on a range of topics
Link comments to what others have said
Keep interaction going in longer exchanges
Relate extended stories and events
Reading
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Develop as active and articulate readers
Read independently with confidence and enjoyment
Read and enjoy fiction and non-fiction texts
Answer a range of comprehension questions including inference and deduction
Write personal responses about a text and reference ideas
Grammar
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Use connectives correctly to form complex sentences
Use prefixes and suffixes to complete words
Use linking phrases to describe similarities and differences
Identify features of language – modal verbs, adverbs and adjectives
Use reported speech in the present tense
Writing
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Plan, write, edit and proofread independent writing pieces
Plan and write an extended text using non-fiction as a model for writing
Consider features of explanatory style when writing reports
Develop skills of writing in different genres
Be aware of success criteria in writing
Improve the selection of vocabulary, check spelling and punctuation
Mathematics
TOPICS
Place Value
Factors, Multiples
and Prime Numbers
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Solve number and practical problems that involve square and cube numbers, numbers up to 10 000 000 and rounding any
whole number to a required degree of accuracy
- Add large numbers using written column addition (4–7 digits)
- Subtract 5- and 6-digit numbers using column subtraction
- Subtract large numbers using column subtraction (6–7 digits)
- Multiply numbers with 2 decimal places by 1-digit numbers
- Use short multiplication to multiply money, e.g. £46•29 by 1-digit numbers
- Use long multiplication to multiply 3- and 4-digit numbers by numbers between 10 and 30
- Identify all the prime numbers less than 100 using a number square
- Round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy
- Find factors of 2 digit numbers
- Recognise odd and even numbers and multiples of 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 up to 1000
- Make general statements about sums, differences and multiples of odd and even numbers
- Find some common multiples e.g. for 4 and 5
- Recognise prime numbers up to 20
Mental Strategies
and Problem
Solving
Multiplication and
Division
Coordinates
Shape
Fractions, decimals
and percentages
Data Handling
- Solve subtractions using appropriate mental strategies
- Subtract mixed decimal numbers using appropriate mental strategies
- Add mixed decimal numbers using appropriate mental strategies
- Use partitioning to mentally multiply 2-digit numbers with one decimal place by whole 1-digit numbers, e.g. 4•2 × 6
- Use mathematical reasoning to investigate and solve problems and puzzles, justify their reasoning
- Use estimation to check answers to calculations and determine, in the context of a problem, an appropriate degree of
accuracy
- Describe and continue linear number sequences
- Multiply pairs of multiples of 10, or multiples of 10 and 100
- Multiply near multiples of 10 by multiplying by the multiples of 10 and adjusting
- Multiply by halving one number and doubling the other (35x16 with 70x8)
- Multiply 2, 3 or 4 digit numbers by a single digit number
- Use number facts to generate new multiplication facts, e.g. the 17× table from 10× + 7× tables
- Divide 2 digit numbers by single digit numbers, including leaving a remainder
- Divide three-digit numbers by single-digit numbers, including those leaving a remainder and divide three-digit numbers
by two-digit numbers (no remainder) including sums of money
- Describe and mark positions on the full co-ordinate grid (all four quadrants)
- Translate a polygon by adding or subtracting a number to one co-ordinate
- Find missing co-ordinates for a vertex on a polygon
- Reflect simple shapes in both the x-axis and the y-axis
- Move a shape to a diagonally opposite quadrant by changing the signs of all its co-ordinates
- Draw and translate simple shapes on the co-ordinate plane, and reflect them in the axes
- Name and classify quadrilaterals according to their properties
- Begin to know how diagonal lines bisect quadrilaterals
- Know angle sums for triangles and quadrilaterals and use this fact to calculate missing angles
- Know angle sums for pentagons, hexagons, octagons and use this fact to calculate missing angles
- Illustrate and name parts of circles, including radius, diameter and circumference and know that the diameter is twice
the radius
- Draw 2D shapes with ruler, protractor, compass using given dimensions and angles
- Recognise angles where they meet at a point, are on a straight line, or are vertically opposite, and find missing angles
- Solve problems involving the calculation of percentages and the use of percentages for comparison
- Describe ratio and use ratio to solve problems
- Solve problems involving the relative size of two quantities where missing values can be found by using integer
multiplication and division facts
- Calculate and interpret the mean as an average
- Interpret, construct and solve problems using distance/time line graphs where - intermediate points have meaning
- Interpret, construct and solve problems using a conversion graph to convert measures
- Find information in tables and answer relevant questions
SCIENCE
TOPICS
Unit:
Changing Circuits
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- That the brightness of bulbs, or speed of motors, in a circuit can be changed
- That care needs to be taken when components in a circuit are changed to ensure bulbs/motors do not burn out
- That there are conventional symbols for components in circuits and these can be used to draw diagrams of circuits
- That circuit diagrams, using these symbols, can be understood by anyone who knows the symbols and can be used for
constructing and interpreting circuits
- That the brightness of bulbs in a circuit can be changed by changing wires in a circuit
- That some materials are conductors and some are insulators
Unit:
Reversible and
Irreversible Changes
- Distinguish between reversible and irreversible changes
- Explore how solids can be mixed and how it is often possible to separate them again
- Observe, describe, record and begin to explain changes that occur when some solids are added to water
- Explore how when solids do not dissolve or react with water they can be separated by filtering, which is similar to
sieving
- Explore how some solids dissolve in water to form solutions and, although the solid cannot be seen, the substance is still
Spelling List
Child
Children
Childish
Childhood
Childlike
Childless
Childishly
Enjoy
Enjoying
Enjoyment
Electric
Electricity
Electrical
Electrician
Crying
Drying
Frying
Prying
Trying
Applying
Carrying
Denying
Hurrying
Marrying
Harmful
Helpful
Hopeful
Mouthful
Painful
Playful
Powerful
Boastful
Careful
Forgetful
Handful
Grateful
Spiteful
Thankful
Useful
Prison
Imprisonment
Imprisoned
Cautious
Mysterious
Continuous
Suspicious
Luxurious
Donation
Transfusion
Cohesion
Address
Arrive
Different
Opposite
Suppose
Dangerous
Presenting
Potentially
Sufficiently
Multiplying
Repeatedly
Significantly
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Information
Vessels
Infectious
Microbes
Microscopic
Microorganism