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.

This half term:

Maths: 

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

Measure and scaling up/down (DT catch up lessons)

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

Money, budgeting, area and perimeter (mini-project)

English: 

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

Writing purpose – to entertain

We will be reading The Final Year

If we have time we will also write speeches linked to our Art topic

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 advertisers: we will be learning how to use the iPads to put together a short promotional video to encourage families to come and watch the leavers assembly.

PHSE: We will be doing lots of work around transition and moving on to high school along with our Growing and Changing units.

Music: we will be 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.

Swimming – we will be recapping the swimming from Year 4 and learning about water safety

Both classes have outdoor games on Thursday morning.

6SN have swimming on Monday morning

6H have swimming on Tuesday morning

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).

Swimming kits – please see the parent mail.

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

Reading books:

In class we care currently reading- The Final Year 

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 Friday27th June. 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.