We’ll meet again.

Winter ClassCycle B Spring

Topic File

We’ll Meet Again

Winter ClassCycle B Spring

Rationale

Literacy•Examine description of character and setting in narrative focusing on the book ‘Goodnight Mr Tom’.•Identify features of recounts.•Evaluate styles of recounts.•Use interview questions to identify information.•Work in groups to research information about evacuation.•Plan, write and present a diary entry about life as an evacuee.•Identify features of an argument.•Explore how to use a variety of persuasive techniques.•Use persuasive techniques to present an argument.

History•Use maps to establish why it was a ‘world’ war and a timeline to locate when key events happened. •Collect and examine artefacts from the war (gas mask, identity card, ration book, black out curtain, uniform).• Using video footage understand the key features of the Blitz. Locate where air raids took place and suggest reasons why some areas where more likely to be effected than other. •Study lives of evacuees and issues around evacuation using old newspapers, DVDs, fiction, pictures, interviews.•Discuss why rationing was necessary and the impact it had on the way people lived during WW2.•Use photographs to recognise and discuss the effects of war on everyday life.

PSHE•Discuss feelings and how they would have reacted on the announcement of going to war.•Role play listening to broadcast and conversation/thought afterwards.•How might reporting be different now? What kind of media do we have now (compare to 1939)? What affect would this have on people? Link to propaganda.•Why is it important to look at different solutions to a problem and not just wade in with all guns blazing (literally)?•What contribution would doing that (possibly in the place of someone else) do for the war effort?•Discuss how people would have felt at the end of the war.

ICT•Use of digital cameras.•Creation of animation in Movie Maker.•Use of sound/music.•Use of Publisher to communicate learning.

Art•Blitz pictures using pastels.•Make labelled drawings and diagrams.•Create a propaganda poster.

OutcomeTo write a diary extract from the perspective of an evacuated child.

Hook: Trip to Steam – Museum

of the GWR in Swindon.

Thinking•Increase their levels of understanding through discussion and empathy.•Be able to explain their reasoning and justify their opinions to others.

Creativity•See things from different perspectives and be inspired to be open-minded.•Appreciate their own efforts as well as the efforts of others.

DT•Identify features of Anderson shelters.•Test materials for task.•Create and build own air raid shelter from appropriate materials.

Home Learning

Winter ClassCycle B Spring We’ll meet again.

Choose one of the following:•Interview a relative or friend and find out about their war.•Plan a garden for “Dig for Victory”•Find out about an aircraft, ship, tank or other piece of equipment and the effect it had on the war for BritainUseful websites:http://www.bbc.co.uk/historyhttp://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/Britain.htmlhttp://www.thebigworld.co.uk/howtodigforvictory.htm

To be handed in by 21st March 2014

We’ll meet

again.

Outcome: Monday 31st March 2014 at 2:15pm in the hall. Children will communicate their learning. To read a diary extract, that they have written, from the perspective of an evacuated child.

Visit Steam – The Museum of the GWR in Swindon. Examine artefacts.

Find out about rationing.

Discover what WWII was like for children in Hurstbourne Tarrant.

Thinking

•Increase levels of understanding through discussion and empathy.

•Be able to explain their reasoning and justify their opinions to others.

Consider the feelings of different people at the outbreak of war.

Study language of persuasive argument and balanced discussions.

Analyse strengths and weaknesses of solving problems that occurred during WWII.

Create Blitz pictures

Study Anne Frank’s Diary and Goodnight Mr Tom.

Develop skills of recount writing in the role of an evacuee.

Create own identity card

These are some of the areas of learning and activities your child will be focusing on this term:

Examine photographs and eye witness accounts.

Examine work during the war and contribution to the war effort.