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Key Objectives: Year 5&6 Writing
Parent’s Support
• Encourage children to write for fun and keep a collection of
different writing at home in journals etc. These can be shown to
others in school.
• Encourage children to use a dictionary to find the meaning of words
on their own and a thesaurus to find ‘better’ alternatives.
• Ensure that they tell their ideas and plan their stories out before
they begin writing.
• Practise a range of different writing genres such as: Narratives,
poems, newspaper reports, recounts.
• Use punctuation checklists that the child must include in every
piece of work.
• Learn how a sentence is constructed of clauses, phrases and
connectives/conjunctions. These are the terms they must learn.
• They need to know when to punctuate different sentences with
commas.
Objectives (5&6) Reading
Parent’s Support
• Listen to your children read clearly, again, questioning for understanding
as well as correcting pronunciation.
• Like writing, children should be encouraged to read a range of different
text genres (e.g. fiction, non-fiction, newspaper reports, graphic novels)
• Encourage your children to discuss/write a report of the books that they
are reading and what language the author used that they liked.
• Choose books from the library and promote reading for fun.
• Discuss the choices that an author makes with language and sentence
structure.
• General: As children get older, they will increasingly take responsibility for
their own work and homework tasks. That’s not to say that parents can’t
help though. Encourage your child to work independently on their
homework, but also take the opportunity to discuss it with them and to
have them explain their understanding to you.
Key Objectives: Year 5 Maths
Key Objectives: Year 5 Maths
How to support learning
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Using and applying maths is an essential skill. Promoting maths outside the
classroom is key in developing this. The following activities can help:
Practise easy recall of multiplication tables which will impact on all areas of the
maths curriculum. Stick on the back of the door etc.
Encourage confidence with decimals using money e.g. when shopping.
Using measurements in home life e.g. when cooking and shopping: 100ml, 1l, 500g
or using a tape measure around the home.
Increase confidence with mental maths by asking children to complete word
problem calculations as a quick 5 minute activity e.g. If I won £1,000,000 and spent
half how much would be left?
Encourage children to tell the time using digital and analogue clocks and to
estimate the time of certain activities. E.g. “How long did it take us to make
dinner?” and interpreting bus or train timetables.
Exploring maths games websites with your children, please ask if you need
guidance.
Recognising 2D and 3D shapes within the home e.g. the shape of the room, the
shape of the fridge.
Key Objectives: Year 6 Writing
Level 4- What is expected?
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Write with a variety of simple, compound and complex sentences to create effects.
Begin to experiment with the position of subordinate clauses to create effect.
Use commas to separate phrases or clauses accurately
Experiment with a wider range of punctuation, e.g. brackets, dashes, colon, semicolon
Use speech marks (inverted commas) with confidence in sentences (e.g. for
reported speech and internal character dialogue)
Some attempts to establish simple links between paragraphs/sections not always
maintained, (e.g. cohesion between paragraphs – furthermore, notwithstanding)
Use elements of dialogue, action and description that are varied and clear.
Writing style generally appropriate to task, though awareness of reader not always
sustained.
Choose words and phrases precisely to add shades of meaning and add interesting
information.
Begin to experiment with different techniques (e.g. opening with action, time-slip etc.)
Use stylistic devices, e.g. simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification
Key Objectives: Year 6 Writing
Level 5- What is expected?
• Use a range of sentence structures to create specific effects appropriate
to the type of story/text type.
• Write with secure control of complex sentences, understanding how
clauses can achieve different effects.
• Use a range of punctuation correctly to vary pace.
• Use commas within sentences to avoid ambiguity in relating elements
and clauses.
• The piece of writing is supported by clear links between paragraphs.
• Appropriate style clearly established to maintain reader’s interest
throughout e.g. use a more formal style when necessary.
• Ensure detail and sequence are confidently managed to engage and
sustain the reader’s interest through the management of flashback, time
shifts or conflicts.
• Use a range of varied vocabulary to create specific effects e.g.
alliteration/patterning.
How to help your child in writing:
• Within the child’s homework, especially creative writing,
ensure they are using varied and interesting language.
• Encourage the use of a variety of vocabulary choices,
which are imaginative and used precisely. Using a
thesaurus to guide them.
• Ensure they are using a range of simple and complex
sentences, organised into paragraphs.
• Using a range of punctuation, including commas,
apostrophes and inverted commas.
• Practice handwriting, ensuring it is joined, clear and
fluent. Children should ensure they are using cursive
handwriting.
Key Objectives: Year 6 Reading
Reading in Year 6- What is expected?
Level 4:
• Explain and justify opinions with a range of evidence from texts.
• Distinguish between implicit and explicit points of view within a
text.
• Compare, contrast and evaluate the characteristics of different
non-fiction texts (e.g. chronological and non-chronological)
• Understand how paragraphs are linked in a text.
• Describe the style of individual writers and poets.
• Compare different sources which convey information.
Key Objectives: Year 6 Reading
Reading in Year 6- What is expected?
Level 5:
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Distinguish between fact and opinion, bias and objectivity.
Identify different layers of meaning and comment on their significance and
effect.
Understand how authors can manipulate the conventions of texts for effect
on the reader.
Explain how writers can use language to manipulate or influence readers’
viewpoints
Identify and discuss irony and its effects.
Differentiate between fact and opinion, in media texts, detect bias,
stereotyping.
How to help your child in reading
• Daily reading and recording this in their
reading records. Ensuring the children are
heard read by you.
• Reading a variety of genres, including
newspapers, leaflets as well as fiction books.
• Questioning your child on what they have
read.
• Can they retrieve information from a text? Can
they create their own questions about a text?
Key Objectives: Year 6 Maths
Level 4
Using and Applying
• Develop and use their own strategies for solving problems and apply these both
in maths and in other contexts.
• Present information and results in a clear and organised way.
Number
• Understanding of place value to x and ÷ numbers by 10 or 100.
• Mentally use the four operations (inc. multiplication facts)
• Know and be able to use efficient written methods.
• Add, subtract and order decimals.
• Use knowledge to estimate and check results.
• Calculate simple fractions and percentages.
• Understand number relationships such as multiple, factor and square.
Shape, space and measure
• Understand names and properties of 2D and 3D shapes.
• Calculate perimeter and area.
• Measure, using appropriate units, with accuracy.
Handling data
• Collect, record and interpret data.
• Know and understand the language of data handling.
• Represent data in various ways.
Key Objectives: Year 6 Maths
Level 5
Using and Applying
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Identify and obtain necessary information to solve problems.
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Draw simple conclusions when solving mathematical problems.
Number
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Understanding of place value to x and ÷ numbers by 10, 100 and 1000.
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Order, add and subtract negative numbers.
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Add, subtract and order decimals to 2 decimal places.
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Reduce fractions to their simplest forms.
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Calculate fractions and percentages of quantities and measurements.
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Check answers by applying inverse operations or estimating using approximations.
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Use brackets appropriately.
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Interpret coordinates in all four quadrants.
Shape, space and measure
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Measure and draw angles to the nearest degree, and use associated language.
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Know the rules of angles (triangles etc)
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Identify symmetry of 2D shapes.
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Know and convert metric equivalents of imperial units.
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Make sensible estimates of a range of measures.
Handling data
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Understand and calculate the mean of data.
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Compare two sets of data.
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Interpret graphs, pie charts and draw conclusions.
How can you support at home?
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Homework
Revision books
Times tables
Inverse – division facts
Using and applying
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Time – calculate the length of TV programmes, use train or bus timetables
Weights and measures – estimate and calculate distances on maps, look at
scales when cooking, use rulers to measure, use protractors
Fractions and percentages – fractions of quantities, percentages when shopping,
fractions of shapes (cakes and pizza), equivalent fractions, percentages and
decimals
Decimals – money!
Shape – recognising and naming 2D and 3D shapes, and describing properties.
Mental maths skills – encourage the children to work out every day calculations
mentally, with time limits.
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