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The TIME Institute: WW2  

 

Year 6 Term 1A

CONTEXT

Time Agents

BROADENING EXPERIENCE

London Residential

CLASS READER

Goodnight Mr Tom

Oracy Development Opportunities

ENGLISH

Focus Narrative:

War Stories

Key Text/Stimulus:

Goodnight Mr Tom  

Focus Non-Narrative:

Biographies

Key Text/Stimulus:

History - Anne Frank

Curriculum support genres:

Letters

Imagery Poems

Hot-seating as Mr Tom/Will/Anne Frank

Freeze frame

Conscience alley

ART

Artist:

Henry Moore (British Sculptor)

WW2 Posters

Medium:

Drawing

3D Decoupage (Paper Tole)

Feedback/critique work

Who was Henry Moore?Henry Moore was a famous British artist and sculptor known for creating large, smooth, and curvy statues of people and animals, often inspired by nature.

What is 3D Decoupage (Paper Tole)?3D Decoupage (Paper Tole) is a craft technique that involves layering multiple cut-out images of the same design with foam pads or silicone glue to create a three-dimensional effect.

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.

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

Content: WW2

  • The Outbreak of War
  • Evacuation in WW2
  • Rationing in WW2
  • Women in WW2
  • The Holocaust
  • Timeline of Events

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

Purple Mash

Purple Mash 6.1- Coding (6 lessons)

Digital Literacy

School Acceptable Use Policy

Internet research (WW2)

Discussion around problem solving

MUSIC

Planning Link

Instrument Tuition

Steel Pans

Performing/singing/evaluations

SPANISH

Language Angels Unit

Core Vocabulary & Phonetics:

  • Los Verbos Irregulares (Irregular Verbs)

 

Planning Link

Speaking aloud