Maths
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Place value, ordering numbers, and calculating.
Fractions, decimals, percentages, ratio and proportion.
Handling data, averages and range.
Transformation of shapes, and angles.
Time, units of measurement, and scales.
Securing number facts and relationships.
Reasoning and explaining, problem solving.
Using a calculator.
Useful websites
www.mymaths.co.uk
http://durham.schooljotter.com/coxhoe/Curriculum+Links
Science
Literacy
We will talk about some of the major scientific inventions
We will be following the Power of Reading scheme, basing
our literacy work on the book “The Boy in the Girl’s
Bathroom”. We will also be linking “Big Writing” and other
literacy work to various aspects of our topic. We will be
exploring grammar at word and sentence level.
of the time such as atomic power, rockets, and nylon, and
discuss their role in the world, and the role of scientific
responsibility.
RE
Homework
We will look at how Christianity and other
Homework will be given out
religions view war, and how individuals and
on Thursdays and will be
nations reconcile the Christian message of
collected the following
peace with challenging political events.
Thursday. It will include
maths, English and spelling,
and work related to our
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2
space topic.
www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/
http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/world_
war2/
We will look at significant political and
military events and individuals from WW II.
We will also explore the experiences of
ordinary people, concentrating on the roles
of women, evacuation, the Blitz, rationing,
the persecution of minorities, and the
experience of service men and women and
their families.
PE
ICT
We will be developing our
We will use ICT to find out about aspects of
passing and moving skills in
small sided games, as well
as swimming, dance, and
Geography
History
running skills.
our topic, and design and produce
information pamphlets. We will use sound
generation software to create war music.
We look at world maps from WW II and the present day, and
discussing the differences. We will look at the main nations
D & T
involved in the war, and the geographical factors that gave
impetus to the instigation and development of the conflict.
We will look at designs for air raid shelters, such as the Anderson
We will use maps, atlases, ICT and other sources of
shelter, and use these as starting points to design and make, and then
information.
evaluate, our own air raid shelters. We will be looking at rationing, and
how it affected the eating habits of Britain.
PSHE
Art
We will discuss the morality of war,
We will look at the work of Kathe Kollwitz, and using it to
looking at the experiences of people we
inspire our own charcoal portraits. We will practice our
have studied through our work in history.
observation and drawing skills by copying model airplanes,
These discussions will be linked to our
create emotive Blitz paintings, and design information posters
present day relationships as individuals
after viewing and analysing period examples.
and groups.
Trips
We will visit the Imperial War
Museum in Manchester.
Music
We will be looking at period music from
Vera Lynn and George Formby, and creating
and performing our own wartime song.