Understanding English,
Communication and language
Narrative:
 Stories set in the imaginary world (unit 2) – Spiderwick Chronicles
 Plays (unit 5) – Life during WWII
Non Fiction
 Explanation texts (unit 3) – Children in WWII by Kenna Bourke
 Recounts (newspapers) (unit 1) – The Blitzed Brits by Horrible
Histories
 Recounts (diary writing) - Children in WWII by Kenna Bourne
 Recounts (letter writing) – Children in WWI by Kenna Bourne
 Persuasive writing ( unit 4) – Creating persuasive adverts about
WWII (Family Life in WWII by Nigel Smith)
Spelling - Homophones, using the apostrophe, prefixes and suffixes
Grammar – fronted adverbials, conjunctions, direct speech, using pronouns including possessive pronouns, determiners, present perfect verbs
Comprehension – Skimming, Scanning, Inference, Language for effect.
Understanding the Arts
 Drawing skills/still life – Alexandra Palace,
Hornsey High street (buildings/architecture),
Creative Blitz scenes using objects
 Studying artists of 1940s/50s and Abstract impressionist drawing, charcoal and painting
Religious Education
 Sikhism
 Jospeh’s Dream
Science & technological
Understanding:
 Keeping warm
 Food chains
 Circuits and conductors
Understanding Physical Development & Health & Well
Being
 Athletics and ball games
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Historical, Geographical & Social
Understanding.
History
 How life and the local area has changed since
WW11.
Geography:
 What countries were involved in WW11?
 How did WW11 affect countries?
 How did WW11 affect our local area?
Social:
 What were the causes and consequences of
WW11?
 How did life change due to WW11?
 How did WW11 shape the nation?
 Chronology of WW11
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WOW FACTOR!
 Draw creative Blitz scenes using objects to express the changes and consequences of war.
Trips: Imperial War Museum, Science
Museum, Kenwood House and Highgate wood.
Mathematical Understanding
 Tenths and hundredths of numbers and equivalent decimals to fractions and rounding decimals to the nearest whole number
 Factors, multiples and square numbers
 Multiplication and division facts
 Multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100
 Problems of all calculations of money, time and measure
 Roman numerals to 100
 Problems of fractions, decimals and percentages
 Converting between units of measurement
 Identify acute and obtuse angles
 Coordinates of 2d shapes, symmetry and translation
 Problems of charts, graphs and scales
ICT
 Espresso – programming
 Use search engines to create a presentation about post war
Britain
 Use software to collect, create and present data
 Internet safety.
Key Outcomes:
 Know how particular localities in UK and around the world have been affected by WWII.
 Know how the lives of people in particular localities have been affected and changed by WWII.
 Be able to use maps to locate countries around the world involved in WWII
 Be able to use secondary sources to obtain
Geographical and historical information.
 Be able to ask and answer geographical and historical questions
 Conduct simple scientific observations and experiments
 Know about the main events, dates and characteristics of the past events in WWII.
 Be able to gather information from primary & secondary sources.
 Be able to use different materials and techniques creatively in art.
 To explain how WWII changed lives and communities and the effect on our society today
 Understand that people’s health and safety can be affected by a variety of factors.
 Know about some of the similarities and differences between the geographical and historical features of different localities (aboard & UK) and how these features affect the lives of people.
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