Year 6 2024 - 2025

Meet the Team

6H - Miss Holmes and Miss Borowy
6S - 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

For Ghyll Head photographs please click here.

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 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 - exracts from 1947 Torn Apart

Writing purpose - to write from a chracter's perspective

Writing skills - show not tell, using the senses to describe, characters thoughts and feelings, using dialogue, varying sentence starters 

Talk for writing unit - Jack (A Tale of Fear)

Writing purpose - to entertain and scare

Writing skills - empty words, onomatopoeia, personification, colons and dashes

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 the 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:

We are Computational thinkers. We will be learning to write algorithms, program, debug and refine code and use random, linear and binary search.

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.

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 handball. 

Dance - We are learning to demonstrate narrative through contact and relationships. Showing tension through pattern and formation. 

Both classes have Dance 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-

Homework:

In both classes spellings will be sent out every Wednesday to learn for a spelling test the following Wenesday.

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 Friday 8^th November and Friday 6th Decmber. 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 to wear in the afternoon in case we get very wet and muddy.