The children follow the National Numeracy Strategy.

The main objectives for Year 6 listed below are intended to give you an idea of some of the things your child should be able to do by the end of this year. Some targets maybe more complicated than they seem and so will involve your child meeting them more than once in the year and possibly again in in his or her next school.

• Multiply and divide decimals mentally by 10 or 100, and integers by 1000, and explain the effect.
• Order a mixed set of numbers with up to three decimal places.
• Reduce a fraction to its simplest form by canceling common factors.
• Use a fraction as an operator to find fractions of numbers or quantities (e.g. 5/8 of 32, 7/10 of 40, 9/100 of 400 centimetres).
• Understand percentage as a number of parts in every 100, and find simple percentages of small whole-number quantities.
• Solve simple problems involving ratio and proportion.
• Carry out column addition and subtraction of numbers involving decimals.
• Derive quickly division facts corresponding to multiplication tables up to 10 x 10.
• Carry out short multiplication and division of numbers involving decimals.
• Carry out long multiplication of a three-digit by a two-digit integer.
• Use a protractor to measure acute and obtuse angles to the nearest degree.
• Calculate the perimeter and area of simple compound shapes that can be split into rectangles.
• Read and plot co-ordinates in all four quadrants.
• Identify and use the appropriate operations (including combinations of operations) to solve word problems involving numbers and quantities, and explain methods and reasoning.
• Solve a problem by extracting and interpreting information presented in tables, graphs and charts.