Year 6 2024 - 2025

Meet the Team

6H - Miss Holmes and Miss Borowy
6S - Miss Solley and Ms 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.

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: 

Plotting coordinates in all four quadrants.

Translating and reflecting shapes.

Calculating missing angles in a variety of shapes.

Revising key topics ready for SATs.

English: 

For the first four weeks we will be revising for SATS, this will include: practising reading comprehensions and techniques for answering questions, revising grammar, spelling and punctuation topics.

We will also be writing non-chronological reports for mythical creatures that we have created, based on the book ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them’.

For an overview of Year 6's Curriculum click here

History:

Did Early Islam influence Britain Today? We will identify when in history Early Islam was and which other civilisations were at the same time. We will place key events from Early Islam chronologically. We will identify where in the world Early Islam occurred and why Baghdad was an important city. We will also look at the achievements of this civilisation.

Click for the Knowledge Organiser.

Science:

Changes to materials, Focus: Dissolving, Reactions and Separation. We will learn that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution. We will use our knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated, including through filtering, sieving and evaporating. We will demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes. We will explain that some changes result in the formation of new materials, and that this kind of change is not usually reversible, including changes associated with burning and the action of acid on bicarbonate of soda.

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 creating well-being potions. 

P.E:

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

OAA – We are focussing on working collaboratively using information given by others to complete tasks.

Both classes have Outdoor games on Tuesday and OAA on a Thursday. 

PE kits

Both lesson require the children to wear - trainers, black shorts or tight fitting black leggings and a plain white t-shirt (track suit top and joggers if cold).

Remember to come into school wearing your PE kit on those days.

Reading books:

In class we are continuing to read-

Homework:

Spellings, for both classes (6H and 6SN) will be sent out every Wednesday to learn for a spelling test the following Wednesday.

Spellings will focus on spelling patterns found within the Grammar test for the SATs.

In the run up to SATs we may send out additional homework to support the children with topics they need extra practise in.

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.

Forest Schools:

We will have our next session on Friday16th May. Please ensure your child comes in clothes that can get muddy, sensible outdoor shoes, warm clothes if cold and a water-proof coat. As we will be doing forest schools in the morning, they may also need to bring a change of clothes, including shoes, to wear in the afternoon in case we get very wet and muddy.