BedlingtonStation PrimarySchool

The TIME Institute: WW2

Year 6 Term 1A

CONTEXT

Greetings from the future, Time Agents. The time has come once again to call on you to help avert a time disaster. I am Aega, your Time Council guide and I request your presence at the edge of the time line. Time anomalies are beginning again and we suspect that Vortex is once again behind the disruption. Investigate the anomalies and present the information you find to The Time Council in order to restore the timeline. Protect the past. Save the future!

BROADENING EXPERIENCE

London Residential

Take One Book Week

CLASS READER

Boy by Roald Dahl

Jigsaw PSHE
'Being Me In My World'We will be learning about our year ahead, being a global citizen, and our learning charter.

Curriculum Overview

Oracy Development Opportunities

ENGLISH

Focus Narrative:

War Stories

Key Text/Stimulus:

Goodnight Mr Tom

Writing Outcome:

"A New Friend for Willie” (Parallel narrative) Introduce a new evacuee who befriends Willie — perhaps someone nervous or different. Focus on developing a short story arc: meeting, challenge, resolution.

Focus Grammar

  • Relative clauses
  • Modal verbs
  • Indicating degrees of possibilities
  • Parenthesis

Hot-seating as Mr Tom/Will/Anne Frank

Freeze frame

Conscience alley

Focus Non-Narrative:
BiographiesKey Text/Stimulus:History - Anne Frank

Writing Outcome:

Write a short biography of chosen figure.

Cross-curriculum support genres:

Letters

Imagery Poems

ART

Pathway: Brave Colour

Exploring the work of installation artists who use light, form and colour to create immersive environments. Creating 2D or 3D models to share our vision of imagined installations with others.

Disciplines:

Installation Art, Sketchbooks

Medium:

Paper, Card, Paint, Light (coloured filters)

Artists:

Olafur Eliasson, Yinka Ilori, Morag Myerscough, Liz West

What is installation art and how is it different from a painting or drawing?Installation art is a type of artwork that fills a space and often surrounds the viewer. It can include 3D objects, colour, light, and even sound to make people feel like they are “inside” the artwork.

Why do artists experiment with colour and materials before making their final piece?

Artists test ideas to see how colours and materials work together. Experimenting helps them make choices that match their vision and lets them take creative risks without worrying about getting it “wrong.”

 

Installation Art– A large-scale artwork that transforms a space using objects, colour, light, and sometimes sound.

Immersive – Something that fully surrounds or involves the viewer, making them feel part of the experience.

Brave Colour – Using bold, unexpected, or personal colour choices that express feeling or break traditional rules.

RE

Jigsaw RE

Are Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur important to Jewish children?

Northumberland Agreed Syllabus Unit U2.9 Why is the Torah so important to Jewish people?

Group discussions/debate

What is Rosh Hashanah and why is it important to Jewish people?Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year, a significant religious holiday marking the beginning of the High Holy Days, a time for reflection, repentance, and renewal in Jewish tradition.

What is Yom Kippur and why is it important to Jewish people?Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, is the holiest day in Judaism, observed with fasting, prayer, and repentance to seek forgiveness and spiritual renewal.

What is the importance of some of the rituals and traditions at Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and how they are linked to Jewish beliefs? At Rosh Hashanah, Jewish people blow the shofar (a ram’s horn) and eat sweet foods like apples and honey to celebrate the New Year and ask for a good and happy year ahead.On Yom Kippur, they spend the day praying and saying sorry for any mistakes they’ve made because they believe it is important to make things right and have a fresh start.

Rosh Hashanah – The Jewish New Year; a time for reflection, celebration, and asking for a good year ahead.

Yom Kippur – The Day of Atonement; the holiest day in Judaism, focused on prayer, fasting, and seeking forgiveness.

Repentance – Saying sorry for wrong choices and trying to make things right.

Shofar – A ram’s horn blown during Rosh Hashanah to signal reflection and renewal

.Forgiveness – Letting go of past wrongs and starting fresh, a key part of both Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

HISTORY

National Curriculum:

a study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066  

 

Role Play as evacuee

Hot-Seat/Freeze-frame

Why and when did WW2 begin? Began 1939 ended 1945. Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933. Treaty of Versailles and what it imposed on Germany. Hitler's treatment of the Jewish community.Hitlers invasion of Poland.
What was the land army? Many women had to take to factories and farms as the men were fighting the war.
What was rationing? Which food was rationed (sugar, eggs, milk, bacon etc. This was necessary because of trade not coming into England so had to grow our own.
What was the Holocaust? The Holocaust was a terrible event during World War II when millions of Jewish people, along with other groups, were killed by the Nazis simply because of who they were. Many were sent to concentration camps, where they suffered from starvation, forced labor, and mass killings, but some survived and shared their stories to help the world remember. They were killed because of their beiefs and religion. They were not allowed to live freely in Poland and could not ride a bike. There civil rights were severely restricted.

GEOGRAPHY

National Curriculum:

use fieldwork to observe, measure record and present the human and physical features in the local area using a range of methods, including sketch maps, plans and graphs, and digital technologies

 

Content:

investigate changes to local area/environment between WW2 and now.

How have the features of our local area changed since WW2? Since World War 2, Bedlington Station has changed a lot! The railway station closed for many years but is now being reopened, new houses and shops have been built, and old coal mines have disappeared, making way for green spaces and parks.The dance hall became a nightclub then was knocked down to build flats.

PE

Real PE Unit:

Unit 1

Cog Focus

  • Cognitive Skills

Fundamental Movement Skills

  • Coordination: Ball Skills
  • Agility: Reaction/Response

Sport:

Swimming

Peer feedback/instructions

Planning Link

DT

National Curriculum:

Focus objectives:

COOKING & NUTRITION OBJECTIVES

Focus skills:

  • Grating
  • Peeling
  • Cutting (bridge hold/claw grip/fork hold)
  • measuring
  • kneading

Recipes:

WW2 Ration recipes - cake

 

Giving instructions

Core Vocabularyvaried diet, ration, recipe, home grown, reared, caught, processed, nutrition, savoury

SCIENCE

National Curriculum:

Light

recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines

use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye

explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to our eyes or from light sources to objects and then to our eyes

use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them

Discussions, Sharing ideas/views

WOW! Practical Introduction

What Colour Is Light?

Ask the children to think about what colour they believe light to be. Show them the pieces of coloured paper stuck around the classroom, and ask them to go to stand under or next to the one that is the colour of light. Tell them you will come back to this question at the end to see if their thoughts have changed.Give the children a torch, a prism and a piece of white card and ask them to prove what colour light is.They should see the light ray split into the colours of the spectrum.

Investigations:

What is refraction?

How are shadows formed?

How does light travel, and what does this mean for how we see objects?Light travels in straight lines. This means we see objects because light either comes directly from a light source into our eyes or reflects off objects into our eyes.

Why do objects appear visible to us?Objects appear visible because they either give out light (if they are a light source) or reflect light from another source into our eyes.

Why do shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them?Shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them because light travels in straight lines and cannot bend around the object, creating a shadow with the same outline as the object blocking the light.

COMPUTING

Computing Systems and Networks

Unit 6.1 - Communication & Collaboration

Exploring how data is transferred by working collaboratively online.

MUSIC

Planning Link

Instrument Tuition

Steel Pans

Performing/singing/evaluations

SPANISH

Language Angels Unit

  • Phonetics 1
  • Presenting Myself

Speaking aloud

Autobiography

Write a short autobiography about your life so far, including key memories, people who are important to you, and what makes you unique. Try to write in the first person and include your thoughts and feelings, just like Anne Frank did in her diary. Aim for 1–2 pages.

Maths Posters

Produce a series of posters based on properties of numbers and place value. Areas you could cover:

Value of numbers
RoundingOrdering numbersNumber sequencesCalculation methods for the 4 operations

Evacuee Letter

Pretend you are a child who has been evacuated to the country during WW2. Write a letter to your parents or a friend? What is it like there? Who are you living with? Do you have an adventure?

Collect some Autumn leaves and throw them up in the air.

Paint pictures on the ground using water.

Bake a cake and lick the spoon!

Have a no technology weekend.

Help your family by doing a chore.

Build an indoor den!

Arithmetic strategiesPractise your strategies for solving +, -, ÷ and x calculations.

Times TablesPractise your times tables.

Reading
Don't forget to read every night for at least 15 minutes. Complete your bookmark each time you read. It should take you 3 weeks to fill a whole book mark.You can read anything - books, comics, websites and your phonics book!

Topic Vocabulary

These are words you will come across this half term in the work you will be doing. Take some time to find out what the mean and discuss them with your grown ups at home. This will help you when in school.

Light

Reflection

Spectrum

Incidence

Opaque

Transparent

Translucent

Hitler

Blitz

Evacuee

Axis

Allies

British Empire

Multicultural

Monocultural

Propaganda

Influence