Key
School
Targets
To use vocabulary related to length, mass and capacity, and know the
relationships between familiar units
(Curriculum Guidance for Foundation Stage page 80, NNS Section 4 page 22
NNS Section 5 pages 72-73, NNS Section 6 pages 90-91, Year 7 Pages 67-68)
Year
Target
Must:
YR
Use language such as more or less, longer or shorter, heavier or lighter …to compare two
Should: quantities.
Could:
As YR and
Y1
Must:
Y2
Must:
Use language such as more or less, longer or shorter, heavier or lighter …to compare two quantities.
Use and begin to read the vocabulary related to length, mass and capacity.
Understand and use the vocabulary related to length, mass and capacity.
Should: Use and begin to read the vocabulary related to length, mass and capacity.
Could:
As Y2 and
Understand and use the vocabulary related to length, mass and capacity.
Should: Understand and use the vocabulary related to length, mass and capacity.
Could:
As Y1 and
Order two objects by height, length, weight or capacity.
Must:
Read and begin to write the vocabulary related to length, mass and capacity. Know the relationship
between kilometres and metres, metres and centimetres, kilograms and grams, litres and millilitres.
Begin to use decimal notation for metres and centimetres.
Use and begin to read the vocabulary related to length, mass and capacity.
Read and begin to write the vocabulary related to length, mass and capacity. Know the
Y3
Should: relationship between kilometres and metres, metres and centimetres, kilograms and grams,
litres and millilitres. Begin to use decimal notation for metres and centimetres.
Could:
As Y3 and
Must:
Use, read and write standard metric units (km, m, cm, kg, g, ℓ, mℓ) including their abbreviations. Know
and use the relationships between familiar units of length, mass and capacity.
Read and begin to write the vocabulary related to length, mass and capacity. Know the relationship
between kilometres and metres, metres and centimetres, kilograms and grams, litres and millilitres.
Begin to use decimal notation for metres and centimetres.
Use, read and write standard metric units (km, m, cm, kg, g, ℓ, mℓ) including their
Y4
Should: abbreviations. Know and use the relationships between familiar units of length, mass and
capacity.
As Y4 and
Could:
Use, read and write standard metric units (km, m, cm, mm, kg, g, ℓ, mℓ), including their abbreviations,
and relationships between them. Convert larger to smaller units (e.g. km to m, m to cm or mm, kg to g,
ℓ to mℓ).
Must:
Use, read and write standard metric units (km, m, cm, kg, g, ℓ, mℓ) including their abbreviations. Know
and use the relationships between familiar units of length, mass and capacity.
Use, read and write standard metric units (km, m, cm, mm, kg, g, ℓ, mℓ), including their
Y5
Should: abbreviations, and relationships between them. Convert larger to smaller units (e.g. km to m, m
to cm or mm, kg to g, ℓ to mℓ).
Could:
As Y5 and
Must:
Use, read and write standard metric units (km, m, cm, mm, kg, g, ℓ, mℓ, cℓ), including their
abbreviations, and relationships between them. Convert smaller to larger units ( e.g. m to km, cm or
mm to m, g to kg, mℓ to ℓ) and vice versa.
Use, read and write standard metric units (km, m, cm, mm, kg, g, ℓ, mℓ), including their abbreviations,
and relationships between them. Convert larger to smaller units (e.g. km to m, m to cm or mm, kg to g,
ℓ to mℓ).
Use, read and write standard metric units (km, m, cm, mm, kg, g, ℓ, mℓ, cℓ), including their
Y6
Should: abbreviations, and relationships between them. Convert smaller to larger units (e.g. m to km,
cm or mm to m, g to kg, mℓ to ℓ) and vice versa.
Could:
Use names and abbreviations of units of measurement to measure, estimate and calculate length,
mass and capacity. Convert one metric unit to any other, using knowledge of the decimal system.
Lancashire Mathematics Team