Welcome to Year 6
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Mantis and Scorpion classes are our Year 6 classes at the Isle of Ely Primary School. On this page you will be able to read about our curriculum and learning activities.
Adults in our classes:
Mrs Hema Patel-Thorpe Mrs Christy Collard
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Ms Louise Bradshaw-Campbell Mrs Hannah Delgrazia
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This half term, we will be learning:
This half term, we will be learning:
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English |
In English, the pupils will be basing their writing on last term’s novel, the Adventures of Odysseus by Hugh Lupton. It is a rich and exciting story that excites and stimulates the pupils. The pupils will explore the themes of the text in depth and use it as a stimulus for their independent writing. This term we are focussing on producing work that demonstrates the pupils can produce a range of text-types. We will be producing letters, a Greek Myth and a non-chronological report. The pupils will be ensuring that they use a wide variety of sentence structures, formal and informal voice, high-level vocabulary, figurative language and the full range of punctuation. Pupils will draft and re-draft work with a focus on independence and craft. |
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Maths |
We will start this half-term by continuing to explore decimals before moving onto decimals, percentages and fractions. The children will be revising how to recognise equivalency as well as how to accurately find fractions and percentages of different amounts. We will also be revising area and perimeter before introducing the children to volume whilst ensuring the children have plenty of access to SATS style questions for these topics. As we move ever closer to the Year 6 SATs tests in May, we will continue to practice using calculation methods accurately and solving reasoning problems in different contexts effectively as part of our early morning work. |
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Science |
In this unit, pupils will look more closely at light and how it behaves. They will learn that light is the visible part of a spectrum of energy. Pupils will be reminded that some surfaces reflect light, some allow it to pass through them and some block it. They will look again at shadows and how light travels. Pupils will test the hypothesis that shadows are always the same shape as the object that made them. They will work scientifically to plan how to test the hypothesis, before carrying it out. Pupils will also look at how the eye functions, how light travels through it and how our brain receives messages from the eye. Going beyond the national curriculum requirements, pupils will also look at prisms and how they split white light into its constituent colours. This will give pupils some prior knowledge when they come to study the different frequencies of light and prisms in KS3 Physics. Unit Rationale Light (Physics) Year 6 Finally, pupils will use their knowledge of how light behaves to make a periscope. This will help them to see that by understanding the behaviour of light, scientists and engineers have harnessed light to create a device that can help us see something that is out of our line of sight. |
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History |
This half term we will be spending the next 6 weeks trying to answer our big question of what were the contributing factors to the outbreak of World War 2. During the lessons, we will be exploring how Germany was impacted by the Treaty of Versailles on 1919 and how this led to the growth of Nazi Party and Hitler’s dominance in Germany during this period. We will be trying to understand what life was like for the German people as well as others in Nazi Germany and how this led to the outbreak of World War 2. |
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Geography |
In Geography this half term we will be studying the human and physical geography of South America. We will be using maps of South America to identify key countries and key physical features, including the Andes Mountains. We will also explore why geologists and scientists think South America and Africa were joined many millions of years ago. We will learn about the Inca Empire, building on our knowledge of empires from history and the significance of Machu Picchu and how the Inca overcame the challenge of the terrain to build an empire across the Andes Mountain range. Finally, we will explore the interconnection between humans and the environment when studying the Amazon Rainforest and the forest fires that have occurred there in recent years. We will consider the impact human activity has on the environment and the threat it can cause to biodiversity. |
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PE |
This half term we will be inside doing fitness and doing hockey outdoors. In fitness the children will take part in a range of activities that explore and develop different areas of their health and fitness. They will learn different components of fitness including speed, stamina, strength, co-ordination, balance and agility. During our hockey lessons the children will work on developing their understanding of the attacking and defending principles in the game. The children will also have to think about how they use skills, strategies and tactics to outwit the opposition by maintaining possession and moving the ball towards goal to score. |
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R.E. |
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Music |
This unit explores minimalist music and soundscapes. Minimalism is a way of composing that was developed in the 20th century that uses minimal musical materials, such as repetitive patterns and motifs. The contemporary American composer, Steve Reich is known for writing minimalist music using body percussion. The children also listen to music by an English musician and sound recordist, Chris Watson. Watson creates ‘soundscapes’ (a sound or combination of sounds that arise of an environment).. Through listening to minimalist music and soundscapes the children explore creating their own music using recorded sounds from their own environment in a layered texture. |
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PSHE |
This term in PSHE the children will be looking at how to take responsibility for their own health and how to make choices that benefit their own physical and mental health and well-being. We will be learning the importance of healthy diets and exercise. We will also learn about healthy relationships and the dangers of gangs and exploitation. |
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Art |
In Art this half term we will learn about the work of the Victorian designer William Morris. The children start by looking at Morris’ wallpaper designs, learning that these were stylized forms based on nature, bearing the influence of Islamic design. They learn how the wallpaper was produced by block printing and create their own Morris inspired designs printed using the reduction method on polystyrene tiles. |
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Computing |
This half term the children will be introduced to spreadsheets. They will be supported in organising data into columns and rows to create their own data set. The children will also be taught the importance of formatting data to support calculations, while also being introduced to formulas and will begin to understand how they can be used to produce calculated data. The children be taught how to apply formulas that include a range of cells and apply formulas to multiple cells by duplicating them. Finally, they will create charts and evaluate their results in comparison to questions asked. |
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D.T. |
This term, the pupils will be cooking a delicious Greek Mezze! |
Knowledge Organisers
At the Isle of Ely Primary School, we use knowledge organisers as a tool to help our children learn more and remember more and to allow parents and carers to support their children's learning. In our knowledge organisers, you will find essential knowledge, key dates, important vocabulary and key figures. The knowledge organisers can also be used as a fun assessment tool which will help children to see the progress they have made.
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W/C 31/03/25
We have thoroughly enjoyed our final week of the Spring Term in Year 6. We have finished the week with another colourful art lesson with our 'Morris' inspired wallpaper, finally completed. In maths, we concluded our topic on area and volume, now armed with lots of formulae to calculate both and have now moved onto statistics. We have started to explore reading more complex line graphs and double bar charts. Having now completed our Spring 2 topic on the rise of Nazi Germany, the children wrote a lovely essay in history, explaining all the factors which contributed to the outbreak of WW2. Finally in English, the children have completed their stories, bringing their mythical creature to life!
We hope you all have a wonderful fun yet restful Easter. We encourage the children to continue revising using SATS boot camp and continuing to build and practise before we start the summer term. Happy Easter!
W/C 28/03/25
This week, we have enjoyed writing our versions of Odysseus and the cyclops. The pupils acted the story out and enjoyed bringing the dialogue to light. In Maths, we have been exploring formulas to calculate area and pupils have deepened their understanding of perpendicular. The pupils worked very hard in art to layer on a second colour to their prints.
W/C 21.03.25
This week the children have shown a great deal of resilience and determination as we completed another set of SATs papers. They have all worked very hard and we have now sent many papers home for you to look at and for the children to reflect on their achievements and areas in which they can continue to work on using SATS Boot Camp. During the rest of the week, we have spend time revising key topics and areas in maths such as fractions and long division. In History the children learned about Kristallnacht which took place in Germany before the start of the Second World War and how this was triggered by an event in France. In Geography, the children looked at the types of products exported from Brazil and how this has impacted the Amazon forest and global warming. Finally, in art the children started the first stage of their 'William Morris style' wall papers with their tile prints. We wish you all a lovely weekend!
It has been yet another busy yet fabulous week in Year 6. We were all incredibly excited in our final year World Book Day costumes. The children had also had great fun participating in the national world book day Football quiz and making bookmarks. In maths, we finished our unit on decimals and have now started to build on our knowledge of decimals to understand how they are linked to fractions and percentages. We drew our mythical creatures in English ready for our non-chronological report writing next week and in History, we started to look at how the Nazi Party came to be in Germany post the creation of the Treaty of Versailles. We rounded off our week with our William Morris style tile designs for our block printing using his theme of nature. Have a restful, sunny weekend.
W/C 28/02/2025
Today is officially the last day of Winter. It feels like a welcome change. The pupils came back from their break invigorated and embraced their learning. They have completed their spy stories and used dialogue effectively in them. In Maths, we completed our topic on decimals. History was an exciting lesson in which we explored in depth the Treaty of Versailles. In PE, we participated in 5 challenges to test our fitness.
W/C 10.02.25
The final week of term ended with a couple of really exciting events. the pupils enjoyed using their knowledge of circuits to create a circuit bugs. Many of them will be coming home with them today. Prepare to be dazzled and amazed. In Maths, we completed our unit on Algebra. The pupils have really enjoyed the challenge and responded well to it. In English, we have begun to investigate spy stories. The pupils will be using dialogue to create characters and develop plot. We really hope that you all have a lovely half term and enjoy the break. Take care.
W/C 03.02.25
We have had an exciting week in Year 6 this week with the children completing their spy gadget creation explanation texts in English. They have also been working on their best book copy which we are hoping to put up on one of the Year 6 display walls next week as they are so fantastic! In Science we explored parallel circuits and understood how our homes are designed with these electrical circuits, allowing more than one path for the current to flow. The challenge in Maths lessons has increased as the we have been trying to solve algebraic equations and understand the formulae. Finally in art, we have started to look at the pre Raphaelite artists and in particular, the work of Millias and his painting of Ophelia. They then explored different watercolour techniques, ready to paint flowers next week. Have a lovely weekend!
W/C 20.01.25
We have had another exciting yet busy week in Year 6! We have started designing our spy gadgets for our explanation texts, thinking about the features we would like our gadgets to have and really lifting our vocabulary to include some high level technical words. In history, we learned about the radical nature of the suffragettes and the lengths they went to to secure the women's vote. We have also finished our ratio unit and the children all did really well on the end of unit assessment. Next week, we will be doing another week of assessments so please rest and recuperate ready for another busy week! Have a lovely weekend!
W/C 7/01/2025
It has been a fantastic start to the Spring Term in Year 6. The children have returned, fully refreshed and ready for a busy term of learning. We have started our new unit of ratio where the children have looked at the relationship between two numbers and have been able to explore the multiplicative nature of ratio with some increasing difficult questions over the week. In English we completed our cold task on our new explanation text type using the theme of gadgets. Over the coming weeks, the children will learn to internalise and understand the model text as readers and writers as we work towards the children creating their own spy gadget and create their own explanation text on their gadget. In History we started out new unit on the suffragettes and learned how poorly the electorate reflected society in the 19th century. Finally the children learned about the classical architectural influence on some of our famous London landmarks such as the Houses of Parliament and drew a pencil line drawing of the landmark themselves. Well done Year 6 for a great first week back!