Year 6 Practice (62 concepts)
Free practice for ages 10-11, matched to the England national curriculum.
Year 6 is the final year of KS2 in England, for children aged 10-11. The free practice below covers Year 6 maths, English, science, history, geography and computing, matched to the national curriculum. Each concept has 10 questions, hints when you need them and an explanation after every answer. Progress is saved in your browser, so there is no account to set up.
🧮Year 6 Maths
All Maths concepts →Coordinates (4 Quadrants)
Reading, plotting and using coordinates in all four quadrants of a grid
Statistics & Data Interpretation
Reading tables, bar charts and line graphs; calculating the mean, mode and range
Ratio & Proportion
Understanding and using ratios, scaling recipes and solving proportion problems
Algebra & Formulae
Using letters for unknowns, forming and solving simple equations, and substituting into formulae
Fractions, decimals & percentages equivalence
Recognise the equivalent values of common fractions, decimals and percentages
Long multiplication
Use the formal written method to multiply 2- and 3-digit numbers by 2-digit numbers
Long division
Use the formal written method to divide 3- and 4-digit numbers by 1- and 2-digit numbers
Order of operations (BIDMAS)
Use BIDMAS (Brackets, Indices, Division/Multiplication, Addition/Subtraction) to solve mixed calculations
Prime numbers, factors & multiples
Identify prime numbers, find factors and multiples, and recognise prime factors
Common factors & common multiples
Find common factors and common multiples (HCF and LCM) of two or more numbers
Volume of cuboids
Calculate the volume of cuboids using V = length × width × height
Nets of 3D shapes
Recognise and draw nets that fold up into common 3D shapes
Translations & reflections
Translate (slide) and reflect (flip) shapes on a coordinate grid
Mean, mode, median & range
Calculate the mean, mode, median and range of a small data set
📖Year 6 English
All English concepts →Statutory spelling list (Y5-6)
Key words from the Y5-6 statutory spelling list: accommodate, cemetery, conscience, environment, guarantee, parliament, rhythm, and more
Text structure & paragraphs
Topic sentences, paragraph ordering, connectives between paragraphs
Passive voice
Identifying and converting between active and passive voice
Inference & deduction
Reading between the lines to work out unstated meaning from clues in text
Semicolons and colons
Joining clauses with semicolons; introducing lists or explanations with colons
Hyphens
Joining words to avoid ambiguity in compound modifiers and numbers
Bullet points
Using bullet points with consistent punctuation and parallel structure
Subjunctive mood
Using the subjunctive form for hypotheticals, suggestions and wishes
Standard vs non-standard English
Recognising and choosing standard English forms in formal writing
Spelling rules: silent letters
Recognising and spelling words with silent letters
Summarising main ideas
Identifying key information and condensing a text into a short summary
Author's purpose and viewpoint
Identifying why an author wrote a text: to Persuade, Inform or Entertain (PIE)
🔬Year 6 Science
All Science concepts →Life cycles
Life cycles of mammals, birds, insects, amphibians, and plants; reproduction
Human body: circulation & health
The heart, blood vessels, blood components, exercise, diet, and drugs
Evolution & adaptation
Natural selection, fossils as evidence, variation, inheritance, and adaptation to environment
Classification of living things
Vertebrates, invertebrates, animal and plant groups, and microorganisms
Light: reflection & refraction
How we see, reflection from surfaces, refraction, prisms, colours, and how eyes work
Microorganisms: helpful and harmful
Tiny living things - bacteria, viruses and fungi - and how they help or harm us
Working scientifically: fair tests and variables
Designing a fair test by changing one variable, measuring another, and keeping the rest the same
🏛️Year 6 History
All History concepts →World War One: causes and events
The main causes, events and end of the First World War, 1914 to 1918
World War One: the home front
How life changed for people in Britain who were not fighting on the front lines
World War Two: the Blitz
How British people coped during the German bombing campaign on British cities
World War Two: evacuees and rationing
How British children and families coped with evacuation and food rationing during WW2
Ancient Greece: democracy and citizenship
How the Greeks lived, fought and invented democracy
The Windrush generation
The Caribbean people who came to live and work in Britain after WW2
Civil rights movements
People and movements that fought for equal rights in Britain and beyond
Local history: how to study your area's past
Learn how to research the history of your local area using different sources
🌍Year 6 Geography
All Geography concepts →Time zones
How the Earth's rotation creates 24 different time zones across the globe
Tectonic plates
How the Earth's crust is broken into moving plates and what happens at their boundaries
Earthquakes and volcanoes
Natural hazards caused by tectonic activity at plate boundaries
Mountain formation
The different ways that mountains are formed across the world
Coasts: erosion and features
How waves shape coastlines and the features that result
Distribution of natural resources
Where the world's energy, minerals, food and water resources are found
Economic activity and trade links
Types of jobs and how countries trade goods and services with each other
Human impact on the environment
How human activities affect ecosystems and what we can do to protect them
Six-figure grid references
How to read Ordnance Survey maps using grid references
OS map symbols and contour lines
How OS maps show height and physical features using symbols and contour lines
💻Year 6 Computing
All Computing concepts →Writing algorithms in pseudocode
Planning programs in plain English with numbered steps before writing real code
Pattern recognition
Spotting similarities between problems so we can reuse solutions
Logical reasoning: predicting behaviour
Working out exactly what a program will do by tracing through it step by step
Conditions and decisions in programs
Using IF, ELSE and comparisons to make programs choose what to do
Nested loops and selection
Putting one loop or IF inside another to handle more complicated patterns
Evaluating online information
Working out which websites and sources you can trust using the CRAAP test
Your digital footprint
Understanding the trail of data you leave behind every time you go online
Online respect and cyberbullying
Treating people kindly online and knowing what to do if you see or experience cyberbullying
Computer networks
How computers connect to each other to share information across rooms, cities and the world
How computers represent data
How text, images and sound are turned into numbers so a computer can store and use them
Programming concepts
How variables, sequence, selection, repetition, inputs and outputs work together in a program