Class Reader: Fireweed By
30.10.17 / Week 9
06.11.14
Remembrance Workshop / Week 10
13.11.17
Portsmouth Museum / Week 11
20.11.17
(evacuation) / Week 12
27.11.17
(blitz) / Week 13
04.12.17
iCans: sewing make do and mend / Week 14
11.12.17 / Week 15
18.11.17
Outline of activities
Numeracy Link
Literacy Link / Tues: Hook Day
-Cookery
-Drills
-figures
-VE party
Friday: Chronology / Monday: research areas of WWII
(question making)
Teach your class
(Non-chronological report in English time)
Tuesday: Living artefacts. Use iPad app: explain everything
Photos
Rotation – one stop
Descriptions of war zones based on artefacts/sources. After writing, reflect on the sources they used
FILM them reading their work.
Friday: WWII coding (Alan Turin- coder) / Monday: Propaganda/Art
Tuesday: Propaganda/Art
Friday: trip / Monday: writing to inform/recount. Writing as an evacuee (autobiography)
Tuesday: Using Literacy Shed- Mourning Dove: comparing war zones present using prezi/keynote
Debate – which was worse? (speaking and listening)
Thursday: ART exhibitions
Friday: science. Looking at forces and parachutes / Monday: P4C Blue eyes/Brown eyes experiment
Tuesday: Blitz Maths
Friday: science / Monday: iCans
Tuesday: iCans
Friday: inviting people to come (app) / Monday: BIG Q: women in the war (Discussion text)
Tuesday:
Show clip of child describing their parents coming home Agony Aunt letters about returning from the war
Friday: RE day / Monday: Creating museum alongside making interactive activity
Tuesday: Creating museum alongside making interactive activity
Wednesday: Y6 WWII museums in the hall ad classrooms.
New Curriculum Subject/
Objective/ SC / History
Understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources
A study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066.
Develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study
Note connections, contrasts and trends over time and develop the appropriate use of historical terms
Regularly address and sometimes devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance
Construct informed responses that involve thoughtful selection and organisation of relevant historical
Design and Technology
understand how food is processed into ingredients that can be eaten or used in cooking
prepare and cook a range of savoury dishes using a range of increasingly complex cooking techniques (Year group experiencing further wartime cooking over the half term)
Art
Create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas.
Improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials [for example, pencil, charcoal, paint, clay
Be taught about great artists, architects and designers in history.
British Values/
SMSC link
(highlight values covered) / BV: spirit of war time Britain
SMSC:
SP: empathy towards war heroes
M- should women be allowed to fight and work during a war?
M- should women be spies?
M- benefits of spying on another country
SOC: allies and axis
SOC: working in a regiment team to design a museum
C- looking at differences in countries during the war
Trips/
Visitors/ Events / Hook day: dressing up and VE party (dress up) / Visit Portsmouth Cathedral for remembrance workshop (8.11.17) / Homefront Workshop at Portsmouth Museum (17.11.17) / Outcome: WWII museums in classroom or hall (dress up)
Computing / Creating a WWII Website with html
PSHE
RE / RE: Interpretation
PE CT / Swing Dance / Swing Dance / Swing Dance / Swing Dance / Swing Dance / Swing Dance / Swing Dance / Swing Dance
PE PPA / Gymnastics / Gymnastics / Gymnastics / Gymnastics / Gymnastics / Gymnastics / Gymnastics / Gymnastics
PE HLTA / Ball handling / Ball handling / Ball handling / Ball handling / Ball handling / Ball handling / Ball handling / Ball handling
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