Year 6
Badge Booklet:
Beyond the Formula
This booklet contains information on the attainment badges that you will be able
to work towards in Year 6. Some of the stickers can be earned at any point
during the year (Times Tables, Handwriting, Reading), whilst others will be at
special times set by your teacher.
Some of these times will be on regular Prove It Days. On a Prove It Day, you will
have the chance to show your teacher or another adult evidence that proves you
have earned your badge. Unlike in Year 5, where you mostly had to just look for
examples of relative clauses, ISPACE openers etc, Year 6 discussions will be
mostly based around about a portfolio of your best pieces of writing. You will
need to submit your chosen pieces to your adult a week before Prove It Day,
and be ready to answer any questions they may have about them.
Every time you earn a badge, you’ll be able to display it proudly on your sticker
chart, and at the end of the year you will receive a special certificate with all of
your earned badges on.
Do your best to try and earn as many badges as you can!
KS2 Any Time Badges
Times Tables
Handwriting
Knowing your times tables off by heart
Although more and more people are
is an important part of your Maths
using computers to word process their
learning. They will help you with lots of
writing now, it’s still important to be
Maths topics, such as multiplication,
able to write neatly with a pen too.
division and area, as well as helping with Joined, evenly sized writing will not only
your general memory skills. By Year 6,
help your teacher read your work more
you should definitely know your times
easily, but will make it easier for you to
tables up to 12 x 12.
re-read and check it over too!
Prove you’ve earned your badge by...
Passing Mr King’s times tables test. You
Showing your teacher that you have
will need to answer ten questions up to
used correctly joined, consistently sized
12 x 12 that Mr King gives you, with no
handwriting in your Literacy book over
more than 3 seconds thinking time for
the past month. Although any notes or
each one.
planning don’t necessarily need to be in
Speak to your teacher if you think you
your best writing, longer texts certainly
are ready to take this test.
do! Your teacher will look for...
- letters that are joined from and to
the correct place.
- similar sizes for all small letters (e.g.
a, c and e); ascenders (e.g. b, d, h) and
descenders (e.g. g, p and q)
This example is a guide for how neat handwriting could look. By the time you reach Year 6, you may be developing your
own style. Even so, you still need to make sure your letters are joined in a consistent way and correctly sized!
Year 6 English Badges
Spelling
In the Autumn term of Year 6, your teacher will test you on the 100 words from
the Year 5/6 list. Weekly spellings for the Spring term will then be partly taken
from a list of any that you may have got wrong.
If you score 95% or more in the Year 5/6 test, you’ll earn the Year 6 Spelling
badge! If you get between 85% and 94%, you’ll have a chance to be retested on
any incorrect words later that week, but you would need to get full marks to
earn the badge!
If you would like another chance to earn the badge later on in the year, you will
be given the chance to be tested on the whole list again at the end of the
Spring and Summer Terms.
Full Year 5/6 Word List
according
achieve
attached
available
average
awkward
cemetery
committee
community
competition
criticise
curiosity
desperate
determined
develop
dictionary
equipment
excellent
forty
frequency
government
individual
interfere
identity
immediately
language
leisure
lightning
marvellous
mischievous
opportunity
parliament
persuade
physical
prejudiced
privilege
pronunciation
restaurant
rhyme
rhythm
sacrifice
signature
sincerely
sufficient
symbol
system
variety
vehicle
environment
queue
interrupt
muscle
necessary
neighbour
occupy
occur
profession
programme
swap
recognise
recommend
relevant
secretary
shoulder
soldier
stomach
suggestion
temperature
thorough
twelfth
vegetable
yacht
category
communicate
embarrass
accommodate
accompany
aggressive
amateur
ancient
apparent
appreciate
bargain
bruise
conscience
conscious
controversy
convenience
correspond
definite
disastrous
especially
exaggerate
existence
explanation
familiar
foreign
guarantee
harass
hindrance
Reading
Reading a variety of books is just as important in Year 6 as it ever was. You may
well have a favourite author or genre by now, but it’s never too late to try
something new!
Prove you’ve earned your badge by...
1) Filling in details for at least one book from at least ten of the genres in
the reading record in the back of your homework book.
2) Reading and reviewing at least three books, in the back of your blue
guided reading book. These books must be suitable for a Year 6 reader.
1 non-fiction book. The review must have information about how the book is
suitable for the intended audience, and include a description of, and your
opinions on, the layout of the book.
1 novel. The review must include information / opinions on plot, characters,
genre and themes. You need to include a quote from the text to justify your
opinions in some parts, and you should make at least one comparison to either
your own experience, something else you’ve read or to the wider world.
1 of the following options:
- A book of short stories. The review must include information / opinions on
plot, characters, genre and themes.
- A poetry book. The review must have information about the style of poetry
included, and some of the themes that the poems cover.
- A play. The review must include information about the genre and themes in
the play.
Punctuation
As you get better at writing and start to use longer, more complex sentences,
correctly punctuating your work can make a big difference in how your reader
understands what you are writing. By the time you leave Year 6, you should have
an understanding of how to use the full range of punctuation.
Prove you’ve earned your badge by showing on Prove- It Day, across three pieces
of independent work:
Consistently correct use of…
- full stops
- capital letters
- exclamation marks
- question marks
- apostrophes - commas
- correct speech punctuation
Some correct use of all of the following:
- brackets - dashes
- hyphens
- colons
- semi colons
- bullet points
Fiction
In Year 6, you will be given more opportunities to spend extended periods writing your
own stories across a range of genres. You will be expected to plan and write your
stories mostly independently, although your peers and teacher will still be able to offer
suggestions and advice for improvement. It’s up to you how much you respond to these,
but you’ll need to be able to explain why you have or have not taken the advice! Above
all, your stories must be easy to understand and engaging for the reader.
Prove you’ve earned your badge by discussing two completed stories on Prove It Day.
You will need to submit these to your adult to read a week before the Prove It Day.
The most important things to make sure are that they find them exciting and
interesting, and that they are not confused by what’s going on, so you’ll need to make
sure you’ve explained everything clearly. (Remember, your adult probably won’t have
been there in the lessons when the stories were set!)
You will need to be ready to answer the adult’s questions on the stories, which might be
about...
- The characters. (Describe at least two of the main characters. What are their
roles in the story, and how do they develop over the course of the plot?)
- The plot. (How does it begin? What problem does your character have near the
start that starts the story? How does the plot develop over the story, and what
is the climax and resolution to the main problem? How have you linked back to
earlier points later on in the text?)
- The genre and themes
- The style (Where are some parts where you’ve tried to appeal to the reader by
using some fantastic description, including techniques for imagery? Where have
you used longer sentences for description, shorter ones for impact, and other
tension building techniques?)
- Any ways that you have edited and improved the story.
Non-Fiction
As with the story writing, you will also have more of an opportunity to plan and
write your own non-fiction texts in Year 6. For these texts, you will need to
adopt a certain style and choose your words carefully to get your information
and, where appropriate, opinions across.
Prove you’ve earned your badge by discussing three completed non-fiction texts
on Prove It Day. You will need one from each of the following categories:
1) Persuasion / Discussion (e.g. persuasive letter, balanced/one-sided
argument, advert)
2) Recount / Review (e.g. newspaper report, diary, biography, autobiography,
book review)
3) Information (e.g. explanation text, non-chronological report, instructions)
You will need to submit these to your adult to read a week before Prove It Day.
You will need to be ready to answer the adult’s questions on the texts, which might be
about...
- Whole text structure (How is the purpose of the text clear in the introduction?
How have you ordered the middle paragraphs, and how do they flow on from
each other? How does your conclusion help to bring the whole text together?)
- Paragraph structure (How does the first sentence make the topic of the
paragraph clear? How have you developed your sentences as the paragraph
carries on?)
- Layout (How have you chosen a layout that makes the text interesting to look at,
and still easy to follow and understand?)
- The style (How does the style you have chosen suit the topic, text type and
audience? For example, can you show examples of persuasive language in an
argument, formal / technical phrases in an information text, and parts that are
clearly aimed at the audience you are writing to?)
- Any ways that you have edited and improved the text, and how you might
improve it further, if you were given more time.
For the fiction and non-fiction badges, your adult may suggest you make certain
edits and improvements to a text before you have earned a badge. You should
get this to them as soon as you can, by the next Prove It Day at the latest.
Alternatively, you and your adult may agree that it would be better to submit a
completely different text for the next Prove It Day.
Year 6 Maths Badges
On Prove It Day, you will have the chance to take a maths test with questions on
all of the following objectives, taken from the areas of number, shape and
measures. At any point in the year, you will also be able to earn a four
operations badge.
Number
There are three Number badges that you can earn: Bronze, Silver and Gold.
Bronze: 5 objectives proven
Silver: 10 objectives proven
Gold: 15 objectives proven
Objectives
Example Questions
Example Answers
Read and write
numbers up to
10,000,000.
Round any number to
any power of ten.
Identify the value of
each digit in numbers
given to three
decimal places.
Identify common
factors of numbers
under 100 and
common multiples of
numbers up to 12.
Say whether any twodigit number is prime
or not.
- Write 6,076,008 in
words.
Six million, seventy-six
thousand and eight.
- Write five million, eight
hundred and four
thousand, three hundred
and one in digits.
- Round 484,747 to the
nearest 1000.
5,804,301
- Round 392,729 to the
nearest 10,000
- What is the value of the
three in each of these
numbers?
- 734,942
- 84.753
- What are the common
factors of 32 and 56?
390,000
- What are three common
multiples of 8 and 12?
- Which of the numbers
below are prime?
e.g. 24, 48, 72, 96, 120,
144…
5, 29, 53, 67
5 29 32 49 53 67 77
485,000
30,000
3 thousandths / 0.003
1, 2, 4, 8
Use common factors
to simplify fractions
and common multiples
to give a pair of
fractions the same
denominator.
Compare and order
fractions, including
fractions greater
than 1.
Add and subtract
fractions with
different
denominators and
mixed numbers.
Multiply pairs of
fractions and write
the answer in its
simplest form.
Divide proper
fractions by whole
numbers.
Know or be able to
work out a good
number of equivalent
fractions, decimals
and percentages
Calculate decimal
equivalents for simple
fractions.
Solve problems
involving calculating
percentages and use
percentages for
comparison
13
/4
/7 and 4/5 as a
pair of fractions with a
common denominator.
15
/35 and
- Write these fractions in
order of size, from
smallest to largest.
3
- Simplify
- Express
39
/12
3
/4 8/6 3/2 10/12
- What is 2/3 + 2 5/7?
/4
10
28
/12
/35
8
3
/6
/2
3
3 8/21 (14/21 + 2
/30 (25/30 -
24
15
/21)
- What is 5/6 - 4/5?
1
- What is 5/6 x 4/5
2
/3 (Simplify
- What is 5/6 ÷ 3?
5
/18
- Write 85% as a number
of twentieths.
17
- Which common fraction
can be written as 33.33%
when rounded to two
decimal places?
- Write 3/8 as a decimal
1
- What is 15% of 30?
4.5 (or 4½)
- Which is the greater
amount of money: 20% of
£60 or 55% of £25?
Explain your answer.
55% of £25, which is
£13.75 compared to £12.
/30)
20
/30)
/20
/3
0.375
Create and describe
number sequences
that go up or down by
equal steps.
Use algebra to
express missing
number problems.
- Describe this number
sequence: 3.5, 4.3, 5.1, 5.9
Goes up in 0.8s
- Create a sequence of 5
5.7 6.1 6.5 6.9
numbers that starts at 5.7
and goes up in a decimal
number of steps.
- Vicky had a pile of
p – 9 = 13
notepaper on her desk. She
used 9 pages and had 13
left over. Write an
equation that will tell you,
when solved, how many
pages (p) there were to
begin with.
7.3
Objectives
Measures
Example Questions
Convert between
miles and kilometres.
- What are 3 miles in
kilometres, approximately?
4.8 kilometres (if we say
that 1 mile = 1.6 km)
- What are 4 kilometres in
miles, approximately?
- What is the area of this
triangle?
2.4 miles (if we say that
1km = 0.6 miles)
10cm2 (1/2 x 5cm x 4cm)
Calculate the area of
parallelograms and
triangles.
- If each square is 1cm2,
what is the area of the
parallelogram?
Example Answers
6cm2 (base x height = 3x2)
Use formulae to find
the area and volume
of shapes.
- Show how a formula can
be used to calculate the
volume of this cuboid:
Compare volumes of
cubes and cuboids.
A has the larger volume, by
2cm2
- Which cuboid has the
larger volume, and by how
much?
Objectives
area = length x width x height
= 1mm x 2mm x 2mm
= 4mm2
A = (3 x 2 x 2) = 12cm2
B = (1 x 5 x 2) = 10cm2
Shape
Example Questions
Example Answers
Draw 2D shapes
when the side
lengths and angles
are given to me.
Draw nets for 3D
shapes.
- On squared paper, draw an E.g.
isosceles trapezium with
two 45˚ angles.
Compare and
describe 2D shapes
using mathematical
language.
- Name three properties of
a rhombus.
E.g. Two pairs of parallel
sides; all sides are the
same length; two lines of
symmetry.
- Name a property shared
by an isosceles trapezium
and an isosceles triangle
E.g. They both have one
line of symmetry.
- Draw a net for a
triangular prism.
Name the radius,
diameter and
circumference of a
circle and know that
the diameter is
twice the radius.
- Label the radius, diameter
and circumference of this
circle:
- If a circle’s radius is
3.5cm, what is its
diameter?
Find missing angles in - What is the size of the
triangles, on a
angle x in each example?
straight line or at a
point.
7cm
65˚
95˚
206˚
Describe positions on - What are the cothe full co-ordinate
ordinates of the circle?
grid.
(-2.5, 0)
Translate and
reflect shapes on a
co-ordinate grid.
P: (-3, -5)
Q: (3, -5)
R: (3, 1)
S: (-3, 1)
- Describe the co-ordinates
of square PQRS if it is
translated three units left.
- Describe the co-ordinates
of triangle ABC if it is
reflected in the y axis.
A: (-2, 1)
B: (-1, -3)
C: (-4, -3)
4 Operations
There are three 4 Operations badges that you can earn: Bronze, Silver and
Gold.
Bronze: 2 objectives proven
Silver: 3 objectives proven
Gold: 4 objectives proven
To earn these badges, get the questions for that rung correct 4 weeks in a row
on the weekly practice.
Objectives
Example Questions
Example Answers
Add together
numbers with more
than four digits using
column addition.
What is 32426 + 54718?
Find the difference
between two fourdigit numbers using
column subtraction.
What is 32968 – 13242?
Multiply one-digit
numbers with up to
two decimal places by
whole numbers.
What is 865 x 2.24?
Divide 4-digit by 2digit numbers using
long division,
including where
answers may have up
to 2 decimal places.
What is 1648 ÷ 23?