Year 6 2025 - 2026

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 place value of decimal numbers

Round decimal numbers

Fraction, decimal and percentage equivalents

Ordering fractions, decimals and percentages

Finding a percentage of an amount

Develop an understanding of ratio and apply this to practical scenarios such as scale drawing and scaling up/down recipes

Know the relationship between ratio and fractions

English: 

Writing units:

Jack – we will be using specific language features (e.g. personification, empty words and short sentences) to create a sense of fear in our stories about a noise terrorising our very own school!

Writing purpose – to create a sense of fear

Macbeth – we will be writing performance poetry based on a scene from Macbeth and writing a modern retelling of a scene from Macbeth

Writing purpose – to entertain using a variety of sentence openers, describing characters and settings and using active and passive voice

For an overview of Year 6's Curriculum click here

History:

Who are the forgotten soldiers of World War Two? We are revisiting the topic of World War Two with a focus on its impact on the wider world, knowing countries and people who were recognised for their efforts during this time and those who were not recognised and why, knowing the achievement of soldiers who were not recognised at the time and celebrating their contributions.

Click for the Knowledge Organiser.

Science:

Circulatory system. We will be learning the names of the main parts of the circulatory system and their functions, knowing the impact of lifestyle on the body.

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Design & Technology:

Celebrating Culture and Seasonality. We will be preparing and cooking food using a range of techniques and seasonal produce.
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Computing:

Variables in games: During out computer lessons this half term we will be exploring the concept of variables in programming through games in Scratch. We will be creating scoreboards, modifying pre-existing games and creating our own projects.

Religious Education:

What can be done to reduce racism? Can you help? We will look at religious responses to racism, consider and explain some examples of racism and connect them to religious beliefs texts and values and discuss ways prejudice and racism can be reduced.
Click for the Knowledge Organiser.

PHSE: Belonging to a community and media literacy and digital resilience. We are going to be valuing diversity and challenging discrimination and stereotypes, evaluating media sources and information shared online, discussing how to safely use the internet and what is appropriate to share and say online.

Music: Growth (performance). We are looking at combining our musical skills to create a performance including recorders.

French: Improving French. Conjugated forms in the passé composé (perfect tense), conjugated forms of aller as part of le futur proche (near future tense), adverbs of place/sentence starters, adverbs of time, negative adverbs, asking questions

P.E:

Games - We are learning all about Tag Rubgy

Gymnastics – We are learning to use controlled flight onto high apparatus and perform partner balances.

Both classes have Outdoor games on Tuesday and Gymnastics in the hall 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 16^th January 2026 (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 homework will be set in the CGP books every Friday to be completed by the following Friday. This is optional homework, but all homeork books are expected to be in school on Fridays so that when we mark it together in lessons all chidren benefit from revising the concepts we have been covering.

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.