Year 6 2023 - 2024

Ms Solley

Ms Holmes

Meet the Team

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

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.

 

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: 

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – we will be designing our own fantastic beast and writing a non-chronological report about them.

Writing purpose – to inform, using technical and formal language, to use the correct layout features for a non-fiction text


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.

Click for the Knowledge Organiser.


PHSE
:

Well-being. We will be looking at ways to support our well-being in the build up to the SATs next half term. This will include writing well-being potions. 

 

P.E:

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

Dance – We are learning to compose a dance phrase based on the Haka. 

 

Both classes have Dance 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-

The Final Year : Matt Goodfellow, Joe Todd-Stanton: Amazon.co.uk: Books

 

Homework:

In 6H spellings will be sent out every Monday to learn for a spelling test the following Monday.

In 6S spellings will be sent out every Friday to learn for a spelling test the following Friday.

This half term's BrainBuilder can be found here

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

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.