Art:
Drawing: Self-portraits - Evacuee
War scenes – charcoal/Collage
War Posters
Sculptures: Children to design and create a sculpture
which represent belonging linked to ‘The Green Children’.
Look at famous jewish artists who fled from Russia to Paris.
DT:
Making stew – War classic dish during the rationing times.
Gas masks - Plaster of Paris
2c Work safely and hygienically – Children to create a war
classic stew.
Collage/3D art:4a Designs an artefact, using knowledge of
techniques, for a specific outcome – Children to re-create war
scenes using collage.
ICT:
Using a camera to capture images that
represent World War2 –
evacuee/rationing/gas masks.
Topic: Why War? Looking back in History at WW2 and
taking a closer look into War today…
Questions children want to investigate:
Par 7b Study a range of places including the European
Why was it called World War 2?
Union.ts of the world effected by WW2.
Will war ever end?
2c Identify & describe reasons for, & results of
How many people lost their lives in the War?
the events, people & changes from a variety of sources.
Science will be focusing on forces and
electricity.
Children will be exploring plane
engineering during the war and
famous inventions during the war.
3e Identify how & why places change. 3c Describe
where places are. 3a Identify & describe what places
are like. 3f Describe how places are different.
What countries were allied with Hitler?
Writing Opportunities:
Drama/S&L Opps:
Religion/PSHE/Seals Links:
Letter from the Green children to their
parents describing their new world.
Stories/Texts/links:
Judaism – Reflecting on the
Holocaust.
End of unit piece: Life in an unfamiliar world
– diary extract.
Letter from Evacuee to parents
Poetry: Life in the trenches
Anne Frank: ‘I wish’ piece of writing in view
of Anne Frank.
Biography: A range of Biographies of famous
people from world war 2 –
inventors/soldiers/children (Anne Frank).
Breadth of Study:
Numeracy Links:
-hands on investigations, fair testing,
observations and evaluating.
historical events, situations & changes. 4a Find out about
Why did Hitler dislike Jewish people so much?
Diaries: Evacuee/Anne Frank
Science:
Humanities:
What caused the war?
Fractions/percentages linked to
.rationing.
My War Diary Green children – Kevin
Crossley
Extracts from Anne Frank.
Drama: Freeze frame
Evacuees – Freeze frame
War today: Debate: Do you think our
British soldiers should be fighting in
Iraq?
Present children with the fact: 1/7
children in Afghanistan will not see
their 5th Birthday – discuss. Look at
charity War Child.
Drama area – Anne Frank dark
room.
Visits:
Synagogue in Cheetham Hill
Manchester Imperial Museum -Horrible Histories®:
Rotten Rationing-Big Picture Show
Trip to Tatton Park- To look at Evacuation during
the War 18/10/13
Tatton Park