BedlingtonStation PrimarySchool
BedlingtonStation PrimarySchool
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
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.
DT
National Curriculum:
Focus objectives:
COOKING & NUTRITION OBJECTIVES
Focus skills:
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