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Developing Ideas and Making Things Happen

Year 6 expectations

By the end of Year 6, most pupils should be able to:

• combine text, graphics and sound to develop and present their ideas;

• reorganise information for a particular task or problem;

• create, test and refine a simple sequence of instructions to control events or make things happen;

• use datalogging equipment to monitor changes, for example, in light, temperature or sound;

• use simple spreadsheet models to explore the effect of changing variables and answer straightforward questions;

• identify patterns revealed by simple models or simulations.