National Standards

National Standards

The Ministry of Education have a set of standards that all primary school children should attain in Reading, Writing and Maths.

Here is a brief overview of what we are aiming to achieve with your child by their sixth birthday:

Reading 
Working on at least 'Green' level texts.

• Can make simple inferences.
• Can read many Sight Words quickly.
• Can read many verbs, topic words, adjectives and adverbs.
• Has an understanding of speech bubbles and diagrams.
• Has an understanding of dialogue between speakers.
• Has an understanding how punctuation marks such as commas and speech marks affect reading.

Writing 
Working on recording ideas and information for self and others.

• Can plan for writing using pictures.
• Can write simple sentences and some compound sentences independently.
• Can spell some key personal vocabularly and Sight Words independently.
• Can write at least three sentences independently.

Maths 
Number & Algebra - Working mainly with numbers to 20

• Can count forwards to 20 and backwards from 20.
• Can say before/after numbers to 20.
• Can add two sets together by counting all objects.
• Can answer simple subtraction problems by counting backwards.
• Can continue AB and ABC repeating patterns.

Measurement - Working with non-standard measurements

• Can compare lengths, areas, capacities and weights of objects.
• Can sort objects by shape, size, colour or other characteristic.
• Can use simple prepositions and directions to locate objects.

Statistics

• Can gather basic information and display it as a simple graph.
• Can talk about the information shown on a simple graph.

If you would like more information please visit http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/National-Standards where you can find pamphlets that can be downloaded.  The pamphlet 'After one year at school' outlines the National Standard and provides examples of work we hope children would be able to do at the end of their first year at school.