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Year 6 · usually aged 10 or 11 · Phase 2
Year 6 maths and English
Maths, reading and writing lessons for Year 6, matched to the 2026 New Zealand Curriculum. Your child starts where they are, follows a short daily plan, and you see how they're going.
What Year 6 learns
The big ideas this year.
Maths
Thousandths, adding and subtracting decimals, percentages, coordinates, volume and capacity, timetables and line graphs.
English
Comparing sources, how persuasion works, embedded clauses, commas, figurative language and Greek and Latin roots.
Not sure which year your child is in? NZ year levels and ages explains it.
The lessons
Every Year 6 lesson in Study Compass.
Maths
Number and algebra (2)
- Thousandths
- Percentages
Number (6)
- Comparing fractions
- Add and subtract fractions
- Add and subtract decimals
- Decimals and powers of 10
- Percentages
- Calculation strategies (Level 5 review)
Algebra (2)
- Brackets and unknowns
- Growing patterns
Measurement (5)
- Length and area
- Volume and capacity
- Mass and metric units
- Timetables
- Angles
Space (2)
- Coordinates
- Tessellations
Statistics (3)
- Choosing a graph
- Line graphs
- Data
Probability (2)
- Listing outcomes
- Probability
English
Reading (10)
- Reading web pages
- Films and picture books
- How texts are organised
- How persuasion works
- Comparing sources
- Navigating long texts
- Characters in other times
- Comparing stories
- An author's style
- Sound and imagery
Writing (4)
- Stories that borrow and adapt
- Persuasive writing with fair evidence
- Editing choices
- Speaking, presenting and handwriting (at home)
Grammar and punctuation (10)
- Noun groups
- Pronouns that point back
- Adverbs and adverbials
- Embedded clauses
- Verbs, tenses and adverb groups that sharpen ideas
- Using commas
- Formal or informal?
- Fact, opinion and bias
- Holding a text together with repetition and word links
- Figurative language
Spelling (3)
- Greek and Latin roots for technical words
- Tricky sounds
- Suffix rules
Each lesson has a short explainer, a quiz and five levels of practice. New lessons are added each term.
Spelling
Year 6 spelling.
- Greek and Latin roots for technical words: roots like aqua, port, struct, scrib, bio, geo, photo and meter, and how they help spell and understand technical words.
- Tricky sounds: less common spellings of sounds (ph for f, ch for k, -cian, -ture, silent letters) in longer words.
- Suffix rules: when to double the last consonant, drop the e or change y to i before a suffix, and the endings -tion, -sion, -able and -ible.
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