Year 6 2022 - 2023

Welcome to Year 6!

Adults who work here:

6H - Miss Holmes and Miss Watt
6S - Miss Solley and Miss Borowy 

Welcome to our year group page. Here you can find out what is happening in our classrooms each half term.

You can use the information below to discuss with your child what they are learning.

For an overview of Year 6's Curriculum click here.

This half term:

Maths: 

Develop an understanding of fractions decimals and percentages and relate these to each other. 

Find percentages of numbers. 

Find area, perimeter and volume of shapes. 

Interpret charts and graphs. 

English: 

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - we are going to be writing non-chronological reports about animals from Harry Potter

Writing purpose – to inform in a formal way and sound like an expert

Geography:

Rainforest Rescue: We are revisiting the topic of rainforests with a focus on the different layers of the rainforest, the high biodiversity of these areas, endangered species, the impact of human activity on the rainforest.

Click for the Knowledge Organiser.

Science:

Sound: We will be learning about pitch, finding patterns between the pitch of the sound and the feature of the object that produce the sound. Knowledge Organiser.

Art:

Mixed media and exploring identities: we will be learning to use materials that can be layered that will produce a portrait to show our identities and passions.
Click for the Knowledge Organiser.

Computing:

We are Bloggers. We will be learning how to respond to differing points of view in a civil way.

Religious Education:

Express ideas about how and why religions can help believers when times are hard and explain and compare the similarities and differences in beliefs about life after death.  
Click for the Knowledge Organiser.

PHSE: Belonging to a community and media literacy and digital resilience. We are going to be valuing diversity and challenging discrimination and stereotypes, evaluating media sources and information shared online, discussing how to safely use the internet and what is appropriate to share and say online.

Music: Growth (performance). We are looking at combining our musical skills to create a performance including recorders.

French: Improving French. Conjugated forms in the passé composé (perfect tense), conjugated forms of aller as part of le futur proche (near future tense), adverbs of place/sentence starters, adverbs of time, negative adverbs, asking questions

P.E:

Games - We are learning all about Volleyball. Games is delivered by an external coach.

Gymnastics - We are looking at improving moves involving supporting our body weight such as handstands, headstands and shoulder stands

Both classes have outdoor games on Monday afternoon and dance in the hall 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.

Reading books:

In class we care currently reading-

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.

Homework: 

This half term's BrainBuilder can be found here

Spellings will be sent out on Wednesday to learn for a spelling test the following Wednesday.

Children will also receive optional extra homework once a week based on Maths or Grammar work covered on class.

Reading Eggs - click here

A video on how to use Reading Eggs/ Eggspress is here

Mathletics - click here

TTRockstars – click here

Please email year6@almapark.manchester.sch.uk if you have any questions.