Year 6 2025 - 2026

For Ghyll Head photographs click here. 

6H - Miss Holmes and Miss Borowy
6SN - Miss Solley and Miss 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.

You can use this information on this page 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 understanding of equivalent and simplifying fractions

Compare and order fractions with different denominators 

Add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers with different denominators 

Multiply fractions 

Divide fractions by whole numbers

Find fractions of amounts

English: 

Talk for writing unit - Torn Apart 1947

Writing purpose - to write from a different person's perspective

Talk for writing unit - Mythical Creatures

Writing purpose - to create a non-chronological report

For an overview of Year 6's Curriculum click here

Geography:

Rainforests around the World. We are looking at lines of latitude and longitude and th location of the Equator and the Prime Meridian, time zones, the location of significant tropical rainforests, the names and features of some of the Earth’s biomes.
Click for the Knowledge Organiser.

Science:

Classification: plants, animals and microbes. We are learning to describe how living things are classified into groups based on common observable characteristics based on similarities and difference and give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on certain characteristics including through the use of branching databases.
Click for the Knowledge Organiser.

Art:

2D drawing to 3D making. We will explore the work of the artist Lubaina Himid who uses her 2D drawing skills to make 3D objects. We will use the grid system to scale up our work, collage to add tonal marks to ‘flat images’, transform drawings into a three dimensional object.

Click for the Knowledge Organiser.

Computing:

Webpages. We are learning how websites are made and we will be designing our own webpages on Google Sites.

Religious Education:

Is it better to express your religion in arts and architecture or in charity and generosity? We will look at how to express an opinion on sacred and special places, why mosques matter to Muslims, why religious buildings matter to Christians, why some people think religion is important, how religious organisations show charity.

Click for the Knowledge Organiser.

PHSE: Respecting ourselves and others, Physical Health and Mental Wellbeing. We are going to discuss how we can deal with feelings of loss

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 skills and tactics for handball. 

Dance - We are learning how to work collaboratively to portray the theme of gangs through movement and gestures.

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 14th November 2025 (6SN in the morning and 6H in the afternoon)

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 Friday to learn for a spelling test 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.