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number 4. If you add
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tens and four to this
number it will contains 100 to this
millions. 60,000. It is number, it
become one
less than one will become
million.
million. 200,000.

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number, it 7. This 8. If you add
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Answers: 1. 4,281,3
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What
your child
learns in
Year 6
Year 6 means moving away from primary school and beginning to prepare for the transition
to secondary school and Y7 work. Understand what the learning targets are for the end of
KS2 and help your child achieve their full potential in the end-of-year SATs exams.

T ake some of the stress

out of the Y6 SATs hype
by helping your child build
their confidence in maths
and English. Although your
child may not be tested
formally in science, they’ll
still need to show a good
understanding of each
key area – life processes
and living things, materials
and their properties, and
physical processes.
In addition to making sure
your child is confident in the
areas they’ve learned up to
now, it’s also important that
they’re familiar with how
Key Stage 2 SATs exams
work. You can print off past
KS2 SATs papers for them to
practise with and read our
guides on how to use SATs
past papers for English,
maths and science.
What’s going on in there?
Your Year 6 child is likely to seem increasingly grown-
up. They’re keen to learn, enjoy school, and have
plenty of self-confidence. Your child’s moral code is
highly developed, with a strong sense of justice, and they
will complain bitterly if they think they’re being treated unfairly.
At 10 to 11, your child is a socially competent being who likes to be part of the
‘in group’. “Your child is less dependent on their parents and more reliant on
friends, as well as developing an interest in the opposite sex,” says chartered
educational psychologist and educational adviser Susan Brooks. Your child has
a close social circle and will avoid children who are not in their gang. They
probably have one best friend, as well as an adult or teenager who they idolise
– perhaps an older cousin or a leader from an extracurricular club.
Although your child is becoming more mature and independent, they’re
still close to their parents. They’re typically affectionate with their mother,
and fiercely proud of their father. They’re getting better at handling their
emotions, and are less likely to be tearful or angry than in the past, although
they can be moody and value privacy.
It’s not unusual for girls to start their periods during this school year or
the next, and boys are beginning their puberty growth spurt, which can
lead to concerns about weight gain. “Body awareness is critical at this
age, and children are often increasingly conscious of fashion, but they still
need guidance on how to dress appropriately,” adds chartered educational
psychologist Julia Busch Hansen.
Year 6 maths
Year 6 children will learn about
square, prime and negative
numbers. They will be multiplying
and dividing with numbers up to
four digits, using formal, efficient
methods. They will be doing more
complicated work with fractions,
decimals and percentages. Potential pressure points
Children will also start to learn
During Year 6, the main sources of pressure on your child are
about ratio and proportion and will
likely to come from school and friendships. These include:
be introduced to algebra. They will
need to measure the perimeter, • choosing a secondary school, and waiting to hear if they have
area and volume of different a place.
shapes, as well as converting • sitting KS2 SATs and, for some children, the 11+ exam or
between units of measurement. secondary school entrance exams.
Co-ordinates in all four quadrants • coping with friendship issues, including bullying, particularly
are introduced in Year 6, as is the cyberbullying (online or by text).
interpretation and construction of
• competing with other children on material grounds, for
pie charts.
example who has the best mobile phone or the coolest
trainers.
Find out more about the Year 6
maths curriculum in our guide • physical and hormonal changes with the onset of puberty.
for parents.

Download free Year 6 maths worksheets for your child to do at home, and help reinforce what
they’re learning in class.

Year 6 English
In Year 6, children will read a range of different genres. They will enhance their understanding
of characters’ motives and feelings and be able to discuss and evaluate how authors use
figurative language. They will learn to spell a variety of words with different prefixes and
suffixes. They will also think about how words are related by learning about synonyms and
antonyms. When writing a text, they will carefully select vocabulary and use a variety of
presentational devices (including adverbials) to structure text. They will use a range of
punctuation correctly, including semi-colons, colons, dashes and hyphens.

Our parents’ guide to the Year 6 English curriculum offers a more detailed guide to what is
taught as part of Y6 literacy.

You can strengthen your child’s storytelling and writing skills with our selection of free
Year 6 English worksheets.
Year 6 science
This year, children will learn about:
Living things and their habitats, including classifying micro-organisms, plants and animals.
Animals including humans, focussing mainly on diet and exercise.
Evolution and inheritance, looking at fossils, reproduction and adaptation.
Light, looking closely at how it travels and how shadows are made.
Electricity, analysing the function of lamps, buzzers, cells and switches.

Struggling to help your child with science revision? Read more about the Year 6 science
curriculum and download and print off TheSchoolRun’s free Year 6 science worksheets for
them to do at home.

When revising for SATs, sit down with your child and review the key curriculum targets for
Year 3, Year 4 and Year 5. You can also check up on what’s already been covered in Reception,
Year 1 and Year 2.

Visit our special Key Stage SATs resource area for more advice, information
and study aids.
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include the setting. How does the
main character find the object he /
she is looking for? How does the main
character solve the
problem? What happens
at the end?

Now write your quest adventure.

Don’t forget:
n Description of characters and setting n Paragraphs
to show different sections of story n Correctly punctuated speech between
characters n Powerful verbs and adverbs to describe any action

Year 6 English
 Debit and credit game
How to play: You
will ne
ed:
This is a 2-4 player board game. 1 die
The gam
The aim of the game is to make it around the board e board
below
with the most money at the end; the twist is that you
A counte
can go below 0. For instance, if you have £1 and you r each
The cut-o
spend £5 on a CD, then you’d calculate 1 - 5 which is ut cards
the next on
-4, so you’d have -£4 and you keep playing. If you spent page
a further £15 on a DVD, you’d then have -£19.
Both players start with £0.
Play around the board game. When you land on a colour you must pick up
that colour card and complete the calculation to work out your balance. If
you calculate incorrectly, another player should tell you and you will be given
an extra -£1 penalty. However, if they miscalculate they get the -£1 penalty.

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Finish
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 You buy a You buy a
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You spend £5 A DVD costs
on a CD sandwich you £15 magazine for
for £3 £2

You buy new The train

Your haircut You spend
stationery journey costs
costs £12 £4 on fruit
for £1 £10

Go back Go forward Go back Go forward

one one space two spaces two spaces

Have Miss your Pick up a Pick up a

another turn next turn red card green card

You spend £10 You buy your

You give £10 You lose £5 by
on birthday parents some
to a charity accident
presents flowers for £5

You earn £10

You earn £5 You get a You find looking after
for washing £10 birthday £5 in your the neighbour’s
the car present drawer cat

You get You’re paid You get £4

Your brother
£5 pocket £10 for your in a birthday
gives you £2
money paper round card

You get £12 You find £1

You get a Your sister on your
from your
£15 gift gives you £3 bedroom
savings
floor

You win £30 You win £20 A £25 bonus JACKPOT!

in a writing in an art from your £50 100%
competition! competition! newspaper attendance
round! award!

Year 6 Maths
 Classifying invertebrates
Here are some of the types of invertebrates, along with a description:

Have long bodies that are divided into little segments.

annelids
They have no limbs (arms or legs).

Have a soft body. Sometimes this is covered

molluscs
in a hard shell.

Have arms or spines radiating from the centre

echinoderms
of their body.

Have a hard outer shell (exoskeleton). Their bodies

crustaceans are made up of a head and an abdomen. They usually
have antennae and sometimes have claws.

Have an exoskeleton. Most have four pairs of legs.

arachnids
They have no antennae.

Have a body made up of three parts: the head (with

antennae), the thorax (containing the legs) and
insects
abdomen (containing the internal organs). They have
an exoskeleton. They sometimes have wings.

Can you cut out each of the following pictures and say which class of
invertebrates they belong to?

Earthworm Scorpion Lobster

mussel are molluscs, starfish and sea urchin are echinoderms, spider and scorpion are arachnids.
Answers: Earthworm, leech are annelids, butterfly and dragonfly are insects, lobster and crab are crustaceans, snail and

Year 6 Science
 Snail Mussel Dragonfly

Sea urchin Starfish Leech

Spider Crab Butterfly

Year 6 Science
 Book characters
crossword
Perfect for bookworms, this puzzle is
packed with unforgettable characters. Can you
work out their names from the clues below?

Across
2 I find a forgotten secret garden.
4 I’m big and friendly and a giant.
6 I invite five lucky golden ticket
winners to my chocolate factory.
8 I am visited by seasonal ghosts.
10 I fall down a strange rabbit hole.
13 I live in a giant piece of fruit.
14 I shrink often and unexpectedly.
16 I visit Oz with my owner.
18 My name is Henry and everyone
thinks I’m ____.
Down
1 I am raised by wolves in a jungle.
3 I have hair as red as carrots.
4 I leave the Shire on an adventure.
5 Run, but you can’t catch me.
7 Even Muggles know my name.
9 I’m practically perfect.
11 Not the Secret Seven, the ____.
12 I love books; my parents don’t.
13 My sisters are Beth, Meg, Amy.
15 My nose grows and grows...
17 I live in the Alps with my grandfather.
Book characters How many
of these famous
crossword: children’s

solution books have

you read?

Across Down
2 Mary (The Secret Garden) 1 Mowgli (The Jungle Book)
4 BFG (The BFG) 3 Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables)
6 Willy Wonka 4 Bilbo (The Hobbit)
(Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) 5 Gingerbread (Man); traditional tale
8 Scrooge (A Christmas Carol) 7 Harry Potter
10 Alice (Alice in Wonderland) 9 Mary Poppins
13 James (James and the Giant Peach) 11 Famous Five
14 Mrs Pepperpot 12 Matilda
16 Toto (The Wizard of Oz) 13 Jo (Little Women)
18 Horrid (Horrid Henry) 15 Pinocchio
17 Heidi
 Y6
maths
challenge
Think-of-a-number puzzles
Josh thinks of a number.
Divides it by four and subtracts nine.
Divide the result by two.
The answer is nine.

What number was Josh thinking of?

Start
with 9 ➜ Can you solve “think of a
number” puzzles?
Multiply by You’ll need to use the inverse
two = 18 operations to help you.
➜
Work Add nine
backwards to = 27
solve these
puzzles. ➜
Multiply by
four = 108

1. Alice thinks of a number.

l  Shedivides it by five and
subtracts seven.
l She divides the result by two.
l The answer is six.

What number was Alice

thinking of?

2. Rosie thinks of a number.

lS he divides it by three and
adds ten.
l She divides the result by
two.
l The answer is six.

What number was Rosie

thinking of?

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3. Raj thinks of a number.
l He divides it by six and
adds twelve.
l He divides the result by three.
l The answer is six.

What number was Raj thinking of?

4. Pip thinks of a number.

lS he multiplies it by three and
subtracts four.
l She divides the result by
five.
l The answer is four.

What number was Pip

thinking of?

5. Ian thinks of a number.

lH e multiplies it by ten and
adds six.
l He divides the result by
two.
l The answer is eighteen.

What number was Ian thinking

of?

6. Manpreet thinks of a number.

lS he multiplies it by six and
subtracts nine.
l She divides the result by
three.
l The answer is 2.

What number was Manpreet

thinking of?

Answers: 1. 95 2. 6 3. 36 4. 8 5. 3 6. 2.5

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