Year 6 2025 - 2026

Meet the Team

6H - Miss Holmes and Miss Borrowy
6S - Miss Solley

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: 

Statistics: read and interpret graphs and charts with increasing accuracy. Finding the mean from a set of data

understanding of number and operations to solve algebraic number sentences

Use knowledge and understanding of algebra to solve word problems

Calculate area, perimeter and volume of shapes

English: 

Macbeth – we will be writing a modern retelling of a scene from Macbeth

Writing purpose – to describe characters and setting using dialogue to convey character and move the story on

Persuasive speeches – we will be writing speeches linked to our activist art project

Writing purpose – to persuade others to challenge their opinions to help make the world a better place

For an overview of Year 6's Curriculum click here

Geography:

Rainforest Rescue. We will be learning about the characteristics of the different layers of the rainforest and the natural resources and animals that can be found in the Amazon Rainforest. We will find out about deforestation, why it happens and how it impacts Earth’s climate.

Click for the Knowledge Organiser.

Science:

Sound. We will be investigating pitch and finding patterns between the pitch of a sounds and the features of the object that produced it.

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Art:

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

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Computing:

Spreadsheets: We will be learning to organise data into columns and rows to create our own sets of data using formatting and formulas to make data easier to read and understand. From this data, we will create charts to help evaluate our results.

Religious Education:

What do religions say to us when life gets hard? We will look at how and why religion can help believers when times are hard. We will outline religious and nonreligious beliefs about life after death and compare similarities and differences in these beliefs.

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PHSE:

We will be linking our PHSE with art and English looking further at activism and the power of speech.

We will also be looking at budgeting

P.E:

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

Gymnastics – we are creating a 10 step sequence to music

Both classes have Outdoor games on a 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).

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 homework will be set in the CGP books every Friday to be completed by the following Friday. This is optional homework, but all homework books are expected to be in school on Fridays so that when we mark it together in lessons, all children benefit from revising the concepts we have been covering.

On occasions, additional homework may also be sent out, we will let the children know when this needs to be returned to school.

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.