Year 6 2023 - 2024

Ghyll Head

For access to the photographs from Ghyll Head please clikc here. 

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: 

This half term we will be using our maths skills through cross-curricular lessons. We will be looking at:

Weights and measure when cooking (DT catch up lessons)

Analysis of statistics (Inc graphs and pie charts) in Geography

Money and budgeting (life skills)

English: 

We are going to be writing Just-So-Stories.

Writing purpose – to entertain

We will also finish reading Welcome to Nowhere

For an overview of Year 6's Curriculum click here

Geography:

Changes in Levenshulme: We will be looking at how the local area has changed over time. This will include both human and physical features and the demographic of the area.

Click for the Knowledge Organiser.

Science:

Evolution and Inheritance: We will be learning about traits which offspring inherit from their parents; different theories of evolution and evidence to support these; and how animals and plants adapt to changes in their environment. Knowledge Organiser.

Art:

Screen printing, collage - activism: we will be using a combination of screen printing, collage and typography to create activism art.  

Click for the Knowledge Organiser.

Computing:

We are A.I. developers. We will be learning how different forms of A.I work, the ethical principles around this and will be programming our own forms of A.I

PHSE: We will be doing lots of work around transition and moving on to high school.

Music: we will be playing the recorder and practising the songs for our leaver’s performance.

French: we will be consolidating all our learning in French from our time at Alma Park.

P.E:

Athletics - We are practicing running, throwing and jumping skills.

Gymnastics - We are looking at combining and linking skills we have learnt this year in order to create individual routines.  

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

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:

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 weekly homework in the Maths and English CGP SATs question book.

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.

Class of 2024 Leavers 

For access to the photographs from the leavers disco please click here.