Year 6 2024 - 2025

Meet the Team

6H - Miss Holmes and Miss Borowy
6SN  - Miss Solley If you have any questions, please speak to one of our Year 6 staff or email

year6@almapark.manchester.sch.uk

Welcome

Welcome to Year 6! As we approach the end of KS2, we strive for high standards in learning, progress, and achievement, whilst ensuring the year is engaging and memorable for all. We aim to inspire curiosity, resilience, and a love of learning that will follow children as they embark on the next step of their academic journey into secondary school.

Here, you can find an overview of the Year 6 Curriculum. You can use this information to discuss with your child what they have learned and continue to support their learning at home.

Please find the information from the Meet the Teacher sessions here. 

What’s happening this half-term?

This half term:

Maths: 

Find rules to number sequences or patterns

Use understanding of number and operations to solve algebraic number sentences

Use knowledge and understanding of algebra to solve word problems

Calculate area, perimeter and volume of shapes

English: 

Persuasive letters – we will write formal letters of persuasion based on an issue in school

Writing purpose – to persuade based on opinions around an issue using formal language

Macbeth – we will write formal arguments based on who is responsible for the death of King Duncan

Writing purpose – to present sides of an argument using formal lanuage

For an overview of Year 6's Curriculum click here

Geography:

Rainforest Rescue. We will be learning about the characteristics of the different layers of the rainforest and the natural resources and animals that can be found in the Amazon Rainforest. We will find out about deforestation, why it happens and how it impacts Earth’s climate.

Click for the Knowledge Organiser.

Science:

Sound. We will be investigating pitch and finding patterns between the pitch of a sounds and the features of the object that produced it.

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Art:

Portraits – exploring identity. We will look at the work of artists and explore how it expresses their identity and experiences. We will be using observational skills to draw from life and explore how to use layers to build portraits of ourselves.

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Computing:

We are Connected. We will be using the student platform on the school website to create blogs We will discuss and establish guidelines to follow when debating a controversial topic before researching a topic to blog about and deciding if the information we have found is reliable or not. In our blogs we will argue our perspective then we will respond to each other’s blogs in a respectful and tolerant way.

Religious Education:

What do religions say to us when life gets hard? We will look at how and why religion can help believers when times are hard. We will outline religious and nonreligious beliefs about life after death and compare similarities and differences in these beliefs.

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PHSE:

We will be covering ways to keep ourselves safe including: recognising fake news on line, what to share online and with who and consent and coercion.

P.E:

Games - We are practising the different skills needed to play basketball.

Gymnastics – we are creating a 10 step sequence to music

Both classes have Gymnastics in the hall on Tuesday and Outdoor games on Thursday. 

PE kits

Outdoor Games - trainers, black shorts or tight fitting black leggings and a plain white t-shirt (track suit top and joggers if cold).

Dance and Gymnastics - black shorts or tight fitting black leggings and a plain white t-shirt.

Remember to come into school wearing your PE kit on those days.

Reading books:

In class we care currently reading-

Welcome to Nowhere

Homework:

In both classes spellings will be sent out every Wednesday to learn for a spelling test the following week.

Homework will be sent out every Friday and will be marked in class the following Friday.

This half term's BrainBuilder can be found here

Please read with your child every day and comment in their reading record when you do. Reading books should be in school every day for independent reading.

Forest Schools:

We will have our next session on Friday 7th March and Friday 4th April . Please ensure your child comes in clothes that can get muddy, sensible outdoor shoes, warm clothes if cold and a water-proof coat. As we will be doing forest schools in the morning, they may also need to bring a change of clothes, including shoes, to wear in the afternoon in case we get very wet and muddy.