A good assessment tool that covers much of the arithmetic content from the National Curriculum for Year 5. Can also be used to assess entry level at the beginning of Year 6 and together with the Year 6 assessments can be ideal for showing progress throughout the year. The test is set out in a very similar format to a SAT paper and all answers are included on the same page for ease of marking.

An arithmetic paper designed for year 6, offering a wide range of questions from across the year 6 curriculum and highly compatible with the calculations your pupils will be confronted with in their SAT paper. Answers are included at the back - all on one page for ease and speed during marking. A much cheaper alternative to using pre-printed specimens and a very useful tool to assess progress and identify misconceptions.

A Year 6 assessment task that can be used to assess children’s current level of understanding in percentages, fractions, multiplication of round numbers and associated word problems. Answers are included for ease of marking. Can be used in conjunction with the elicitation task for this sequence which is also available on TES Resources.

An Elicitation Task for year 6s to determine children’s current understanding before embarking on a teaching sequence. Questions relevant to SAT arithmetic test and also incorporates word problems that require working out percentages. Answers are included for ease of marking and a matching assessment task is also available on TES Resources.

A worksheet to monitor children’s capability and understanding in using the four operations with both simple and mixed fractions. If you’ve also downloaded the elicitation task, it can be a very useful tool to highlight the progress the children are making throughout your schemes of work. Answers are included with the worksheet for ease of marking.

A brief Powerpoint slideshow that explains how to round to the nearest 10, providing exercises that can be done in groups.

A reasoning powerpoint incorporating multi-step problems similar to the type encountered in SAT papers. Ideal for year 6 in that it promotes partner/group discussion and discussion of methods and efficient methods.

A good starter exercise just to reinforce which numbers are prime and which are not. How do we know if a number is prime? Some work on common factors also.

A set of 7 group problems for children to work on together in mixed ability groups. Children can use whiteboards to help them work out their calculations and explain their reasoning in a following mini-plenary.

Practise at reading timetables, calculating time durations and some word problems mixed in at greater depth level. Good resource for around mid-year and good practise for SATs reasoning as the reasoning paper usually incorporates a timetable question.

A set of questions based on number and word problems - includes rounding, reading data, percentages and ratio. This revision exercise is aimed at children working at the expected level