Year 6 2025 - 2026

Meet the Team

6H - Miss Holmes and Miss Borowy
6S - Miss Solley and Ms Ng

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: 

Secure place value of 6 digit numbers and rounidng numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000

Addition and subtraction including missing number problems 

Multiplication and division including formal written methods, factors, prime numbers and square numbers

English: 

Talk for writing unit - An Odd Kettle of Fish 

Writing purpose - to entertain using play on words and idioms

Talk for writing unit - A letter from Paddington (informal letter)

Writing purpose - to inform using a vairety of sentence openers and parenthisis to add extra information.

For an overview of Year 6's Curriculum click here

History:

World War Two and its impact on Manchester. We are looking at the causes of WWII, key events which happened during WWII, the use of propaganda, the Manchester Blitz and the evacuation of children during WWII.
Click for the Knowledge Organiser.

Science:

Electricity. We are learning to use symbols to draw circuits and investigating how the composition of a circuit impacts the function of its components.
Click for the Knowledge Organiser.

Design & Technology:

Frame Structures. We are learning how to reinforce and strengthen 3D strucutres to build a bridge. Click for the Knowledge Organiser.

Computing:

Communication and collaboration. We are learning how data is transferred over the internet and how it facilitates online communication and collaboration.

Religious Education:

Living - What would Jesus do? Can we live by the values of Jesus in the twenty-first century? We will look at the values Jesus held and how they apply to our lives today.
Click for the Knowledge Organiser.

PHSE: Respecting ourselves and others, Physical Health and Mental Wellbeing. We are going to discuss how we can respect ourselves and others through our actions.

Music: World Unite. We are looking at combining our musical skills to create a performance including playing the xylophone and keyboard.

French: Improving French. Masculine nouns, Feminine nouns, Verbs in the infinitive form, Conjugated forms in the présent (present tense), Conjugated forms in the imparfait (imperfect
tense).

P.E:

Games - We are learning all about cricket. 

Dance - We are learning how to perform basic street dance skills including linking moves .

Both classes have Outdoor Games on Tuesday and Dance on Wednesday. 

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.

Forest Schools 

This half term we will have forest schools on Friday 19th September (this will be an all day session for the chidlren not going to Ghyll Head) and Friday 17th October. 

Remember to come to school in your forest school clothes and bring spare trainers with you for when we have finished.

Reading books:

In class we care currently reading-

Homework:

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

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.