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Year 3 to 6 maths and English, and 11+ reasoning

Remelia teaches maths and English for Years 3 to 6 in the order school teaches them. It starts from what your child’s class has been taught. That is 199 maths topics (177 from the national curriculum) and 90 English topics. Then comes a Year 7 head start of 29 more maths topics after the exams (228 in maths in all). Verbal and non-verbal reasoning and science are added only for an 11 plus exam that sets them. Here is every part of it, counted, and what it does not teach.

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Maths

Year 3 to 6 maths: every Key Stage 2 topic, and problem solving beyond it.

177 topics from the national curriculum for Years 3 to 6 (it calls them objectives), in 10 areas, and 22 more on solving problems and thinking mathematically. All 199 have their own questions.

The 10 areas of Key Stage 2 maths

  • 26 topics

    Number and place value

    Years 3–6

    For example Round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1,000

  • 11 topics

    Addition and subtraction

    Years 3–5

    For example Add and subtract numbers up to 3 digits using formal columnar methods

  • 19 topics

    Multiplication and division

    Years 3–5

    For example Recall and use multiplication and division facts for the 3, 4 and 8 tables

  • 40 topics

    Fractions, decimals and percentages

    Years 3–6

    For example Recognise mixed numbers and improper fractions and convert between them

  • 28 topics

    Measurement

    Years 3–6

    For example Read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12- and 24-hour clocks

  • 27 topics

    Geometry

    Years 3–6

    For example Describe positions on a 2-D grid as coordinates in the first quadrant

  • 8 topics

    Statistics

    Years 3–6

    For example Interpret and present data using bar charts, pictograms and tables

  • 9 topics

    Calculation

    Year 6

    For example Use knowledge of the order of operations (BIDMAS) to carry out calculations with all four operations

  • 4 topics

    Ratio and proportion

    Year 6

    For example Solve problems involving the calculation of percentages (e.g. 15% of 360) and the use of percentages for comparison

  • 5 topics

    Algebra

    Year 6

    For example Express missing number problems algebraically

Problem solving, and thinking beyond Key Stage 2

10 topicsEvery year

Problem-solving strategies

Habits for any worded or multi-step question, practised alongside the topics of every year.

  • Break a complex problem into a series of simpler steps, and persevere
  • Decide which operation to use and why
  • Estimate and use rounding to check an answer for reasonableness
  • Work backwards from a given answer
  • Eliminate wrong multiple-choice options by logical deduction
  • Recognise patterns and sequences
  • Draw a diagram / table to simplify a problem
  • Read a rule or formula given in the question and apply it to an unfamiliar situation
  • Trial and improve when the method isn’t obvious
  • Find a second method and use it to confirm the first

12 topicsBeyond Key Stage 2

Mathematical thinking

Puzzles that stretch past the Key Stage 2 curriculum, for the kind of question that asks a child to find a way in rather than follow a method.

  • Systematic listing
  • Working backwards
  • Spotting invariance
  • Proof by exhaustion
  • Counterexample
  • Generalisation
  • Bar modelling / diagram-first
  • Estimation and sanity-checking
  • Elimination under multiple choice
  • Elegance
  • Perseverance on a stuck problem
  • Explaining and justifying

After the exams: a Year 7 head start

29 early secondary maths topics from the start of Year 7, each with its own questions, which bring the maths to 228. The head start opens after the Year 6 SATs (straight after the last exam, for a child aiming only at independent schools), or earlier if a grown-up turns it on, and each topic comes in only once the Key Stage 2 topics it builds on are secure. It is part of every plan. The Key Stage 2 counts on this page leave it out.

In the order of your child’s school’s scheme

Maths is taught half-term by half-term in the order of the scheme your child’s school follows. If you are not sure which one that is, Remelia follows the order most English primary schools teach.

  • White Rose Maths
  • Power Maths (current edition)
  • Power Maths (first edition, 2018)
  • Maths No Problem!
  • Oak National Academy

Remelia is not associated with or endorsed by White Rose Education or Oak National Academy. The topic order for Oak National Academy is based on Oak’s published units, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

When an answer is wrong in a way that matches a known misunderstanding, the app says what probably happened, in words a child can use next time.

A maths question in the app: “2/7 + 4/7 = ? Write your answer as a fraction, like 3/8.” The feedback reads: “Not this time. It looks as if you added the denominators (bottom numbers) too. When the denominators are the same, add only the numerators (top numbers). The denominator stays the same. Have another go. Nothing is lost.”
A fractions question, and the mistake it names. From the app, for a fictional child called Sam.
The child’s map in the app, on its Maths tab: a star for each objective, in rows by strand (Numbers, Add and subtract, Times and divide, Fractions, Measure, Shape and angle, Charts, Calculate, Ratio, Algebra) and columns for Years 3 to 6, with a separate Thinking row. The stars are coloured by stage, from not taught yet to mastered.
The map a child sees: every objective as a star, by strand and year.

Every topic, on one map

Your child sees the whole syllabus as a map of stars, one per topic, filled in as topics become secure. Maths and English each have their own.

Topics school has not reached yet are shown as not taught yet, so a gap never looks like a failure.

English

Year 3 to 6 English: the same for every child who studies it, and more when the exam asks for it.

90 topics from the Key Stage 2 English curriculum, Years 3 to 6. For every child who studies English, 73 of them are practised in the daily questions, and from Year 4, spring term there is a passage each week to read with a grown-up. The reading day comes in when a chosen exam plan includes English; timed writing comes in when its exam includes writing.

Every session, for every child who studies English

Daily questions

73 topics, a few questions in each session beside the maths. They need no chosen exam, and you can turn English on or off in Remelia Parents.

  • 10 Word Years 3–6The grammatical difference between plural and possessive -s
  • 11 Sentence Years 3–6Fronted adverbials
  • 10 Text Years 3–6Correct choice and consistent use of present tense and past tense throughout writing
  • 11 Punctuation Years 3–6Apostrophes to mark plural possession
  • 27 Spelling Years 3–6Homophones and near-homophones, Years 3–4 list
  • 4 Vocabulary Years 3–5Synonyms and antonyms; similar and opposite word families

Spelling covers the rule families and the statutory word lists for Years 3–4 and 5–6.

An English question in the app, labelled English, Punctuation: “Only one of these is punctuated correctly. Which one?” with sentences to choose from, the first labelled A, and the feedback “Not this time. Have another go. Nothing is lost. Stuck? Play a card, or take a first step.”
A punctuation question, after a first wrong try.

Once a week

Reading

For every child who studies English, from Year 4, spring term: a passage to read together with a grown-up, with three questions for the grown-up to ask. It needs no chosen exam.

A reading day, from Year 5, autumn term, when a chosen exam plan includes English (249 of the 249 exam plans include English): one day a week the practice is a passage your child has not seen before and 9 questions on it. The questions practise 11 reading topics: finding information, working out what characters think and feel, predicting what happens next, summing up the main ideas, why the writer chose the words and telling fact from opinion.

passages in the bank
130
non-fiction
67
fiction
46
poems
17

Both come from the same bank. Prose passages run from about 250 to 450 words; the poems are shorter. 20 are classic texts out of copyright, the rest written for Remelia. A passage is never shown twice.

When a chosen exam has writing: fortnightly from Year 4, spring term, weekly from Year 5, autumn term

Short timed writing

A piece of 6 to 10 minutes against a clock: “What happened next?”, “What would you do?”, “Describe it”, “Persuade them”, “Write a letter” and “A time when…”, from 72 prompts. Your child writes it on paper, so nothing written goes into the app, and hands it to a grown-up, who ticks what the piece shows:

  • An idea of their own
  • A clear beginning and end
  • A sentence that starts with a fronted adverbial
  • An expanded noun phrase
  • Speech punctuated
  • Tense kept

It comes in when a chosen exam includes a written piece: 87 of the 249 exams with a plan do. A tick counts as evidence, never as a right answer: it cannot make a topic look secure.

A timed writing piece in the app, under “Describe it”: “The beach on a cold, grey morning.” and “Write three sentences. What can you see, hear and feel?” The clock reads 6:00 and the button says “I’ve finished”. The screen holds no writing: the piece is written on paper.
A writing prompt and its clock, as your child sees them when a chosen exam includes a written piece. They write it on paper, and nothing they write goes into the app.
A reading day in the app: the passage “The Seal on the Shore”, with numbered paragraphs and an answer box. The note at the top says: “Today is a reading day. Read the text first, then answer. You can look back at it.”
A reading day: the passage stays on screen while your child answers.

What a reading day looks like

The passage stays on screen, with its paragraphs numbered, while your child answers; they can look back at it as often as they like. A wrong answer gets a second go and the usual feedback.

A kind of reading question that keeps going wrong is asked first on the next reading day, on a new passage, so the practice goes where it is needed.

Reasoning, for a chosen exam

11 plus verbal and non-verbal reasoning: every question type, and when it is practised.

Verbal and non-verbal reasoning are practised only when a chosen school’s exam sets them. There are 23 verbal reasoning question types and 13 non-verbal reasoning types, mixed into the sessions beside maths and English. Reasoning starts in the autumn of Year 5: a child in Year 3 or Year 4 has none until then. Each type is listed under its area, and its name links to its practice questions where it has a page.

23 question types

Verbal reasoning

These cover the 21 types in GL Assessment’s familiarisation papers, plus two additional types tested by Quest Assessments. Plans for the ISEB Common Pre-Test exclude three types: number series, letters for numbers and complete the sum.

An exam sets it at 282 of the 329 schools with an exam plan.

Number series and sums

Letter series and analogies

Codes

Logic puzzles

Word puzzles

Word meanings

A non-verbal reasoning question in the app, for a fictional child called Kaya, under Shape patterns: “Which box completes the sequence?” A row of boxes has one missing, with 5 options labelled A to E drawn below it. After a wrong choice the feedback reads: “Not this time. Have another go. Nothing is lost. Stuck? Play a card, or take a first step.”
An example of a non-verbal reasoning question and the feedback a child sees after an incorrect answer. These questions are included only if your chosen school’s entrance exam tests non-verbal reasoning. Kaya is a fictional child.

Spatial reasoning, in part

GL Assessment’s tests may include a spatial reasoning section. Remelia practises two of its types, hidden shapes, and folding and punching paper, as part of non-verbal reasoning: they are the two types the sample booklets for GL’s tests publish. It is partly taught: the real section may set other types, which need practice elsewhere.

134 of the 329 schools with an exam plan sit a test that sets it.

34 of the 36 types have a page of questions with answers, to read or print:

Science, for the exams that set it

Year by year

Maths and English topics in each school year, Year 3 to Year 6.

The topics in each Key Stage 2 year. The 22 maths topics on problem solving and mathematical thinking belong to no one year, so they are counted apart.

Objectives in Remelia by school year and subject
School yearMathsEnglishBoth
Year 3322557
Year 4422163
Year 5543286
Year 6491261
Problem solving and thinking22–22
All19990289

The years an exam counts

An exam plan counts the years its exam covers:

Year 6 is taught either way: for an exam that stops at Year 5 it is stretch, never a requirement.

Each exam plan is dated from your child’s year group: Remelia works to the sitting for the September they start Year 7. A school without a plan of its own may still have its test under “Can’t find a school?”. Tick it, then choose its school year and month; Remelia plans for that provider’s usual test at the sitting you choose. If it is not there, choose “General 11+ preparation” for the Key Stage 2 curriculum with no exam date.

The Key Stage 2 tests in May of Year 6: what is sat, when, and what Remelia practises for them

A question on every topic, with its answer:

In school order

In step with school: what the class has reached, and further only once that has stuck.

Remelia works alongside the class: a topic is met here while school teaches it, and brought back afterwards so it stays. Once everything taught is secure, the next topic opens early, one at a time. You tell it your child’s school year; a skills check on the first day finds where your child actually is.

  • The default

    Only what school has taught

    What the class has reached, and the next topic early once everything taught is secure.

  • A child ahead of the class

    Up to a term ahead

    Two half-terms in front of the class, counted on your child’s school year and its terms.

  • Widest

    The whole year

    Anything in the years in scope, whenever school gets to it.

A grown-up chooses in Remelia Parents. In the final months before a chosen exam, the limit lifts on its own so that everything the exam covers can be reached. English has no published half-term order, so it goes year by year.

For a chosen exam, and the national tests

Science, Year 6 SATs and times tables: from a chosen exam, a parent’s choice, or on their own.

Maths and English are for every child. Science is added when a chosen school’s exam sets it, and the SATs when a parent chooses them. The times tables check comes on its own. Reasoning, also only where a chosen school’s exam sets it, has its section above. Ten of the 249 exam plans leave out English or maths, and another 52 set reasoning only and leave out both. With only such exams open, what is missing is kept up to the national standard for Years 3 to 6, with core topics and practice papers. It is not counted towards those exams or included as a section of their mocks.

Science, only for the exams that set it

Science is practised only when a chosen school’s exam sets it: the Key Stage 2 programme of study for Years 3 to 5, and Year 6 too for an exam sat from November of Year 6, asked as reasoning over a table, a drawing or a short text rather than as facts to recall. It goes by school year, so a Year 3 child with such a school chosen gets Year 3 science. 25 topics have questions made fresh each time (fair tests, tables and graphs, circuits, keys, food chains); 45 more are asked from 104 short scenarios, each shown again only after 42 days. Year 6 science is in the plan too: all 15 of its objectives have notes, and one so far has questions; the rest are named as not covered yet.

An exam sets it at 8 of the 329 schools with an exam plan.

Year 6 SATs practice

Year 6 SATs practice: printable papers in the style of the national tests, covering arithmetic, mathematical reasoning, grammar and punctuation, spelling and reading. A grown-up can run a timed mock using all six papers, mark the answers and see an estimated scaled score as a rough guide. A parent can choose the SATs in Remelia Parents, alone or beside schools. For a child with a school chosen they also open on their own, within a few weeks of the last chosen exam. They do not open by themselves in time for SATs after a 13 plus test sat in Year 7 or Year 8 (22 of the 249 exams): the SATs week comes first, so a parent chooses them. The same applies to an unlisted-school Pre-Test chosen for Year 7 or Year 8. What Remelia practises for SATs

The Year 4 times tables check

Times tables check practice: a weekly practice check from March of Year 4, the same length and pace as the real check: 25 questions, with six seconds to answer each one. It comes on its own, for a child who studies maths: nothing to choose. The times tables check

Not taught

What Remelia does not teach: parts of some exams.

So that you know what to cover some other way.

English with no questions

2 English topics have no questions: Year 3 “themes and conventions in a wide range of books” and Year 5 “identify and discuss themes and conventions”. They are about reading whole books, and are listed in the parents’ syllabus as having no questions.

The 4 composition topics have no questions either: they are practised in the timed writing, which a grown-up marks.

Parts of an exam the app does not cover

  • The King’s School, Chester (Quest): the school’s written English paper (not practised as the school sets it; Remelia prints a writing paper to practise the writing, marked at home by a grown-up), Quest’s Creative Comprehension section and Quest’s Puzzles and Problem-Solving section (the puzzles here practise some of it).

Remelia Parents says the same beside each school you choose. Schools and exams

Preparing for a school that is not listed? The Key Stage 2 maths and English curriculum is still taught in school order: grammar, punctuation, spelling and vocabulary in every session, and from Year 4, spring term a passage each week to read with a grown-up. A school without a plan of its own may still have its test under “Can’t find a school?”. Tick it, then choose its school year and month; Remelia plans for that provider’s usual test at the sitting you choose. If it is not there, choose “General 11+ preparation” for the Key Stage 2 curriculum with no exam date. A school that is not listed A plan to a school’s own exam is for the listed schools; ask for yours at info@remelia.co.uk.

See where your child is in maths and English.

A short skills check on the first day places your child in the syllabus, and the plan starts from there.

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