Year 6 2026 - 2027

Meet the Team

6B - Mr Beesley and Miss Borowy
6S - Miss Solley, Miss Borowy, Miss Watt

Misss Holmes will also be working in Year 6 as Additional teacher providing bespoke support

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 rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000

Addition and subtraction including missing number problems and missing angle problems 

Solving problems involving money 

Converting units of measure for mass (kg and g), length (km, m, cm, mm) and volume (l and ml)

English: 

Writing unit - Poetry – Using idioms and figurative language.

Writing purpose: To entertain

Writing unit - A letter from Paddington (informal letter)

Writing purpose - to inform using a variety of sentence openers and parenthesis 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:

We will be creating frame structures made stable by a skeleton that are able to stand by themselves and hold weight.

Click for the Knowledge Organiser.

Computing:

We are Toy Makers. We will be using Crumble to design and programme toys.

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 Dance on Tuesday and Outdoor Games on Friday. 

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-

Homework:

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.

TTRockstars can also be accessed for practicing Time Tables skills – click here

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