Transcript choice of home learning projects

Theme
Mathematics
Place value & decimals
Written addition & subtraction
Shape & angles
Fractions
Measures
Number problems & problem solving
Negative numbers
Mental calculations
Division & multiplication
Algebra
PSHE/SMSC
Protective Behaviours
R-Time activities
Peace and reconciliation
A CHILD’S
WAR
English
Stay Where You Are & Then Leave
Biography & autobiography
Newspaper reports
Diary entries
Persuasive writing
Goodnight Mr Tom
Roald Dahl Day poetry
PE/games
Athletics
Dance
Sports Science
6P, 6S & 5/6M
Autumn Term
Computing
Computer Aided Design
3D designing
Internet research
The origins of World War II
The Blitz
Coventry Cathedral blitz workshops
Evacuation
The Holocaust
Key events of WWII
The European geography of the war
1940’s music
Rationing
Make do & mend
Textiles (clothing)
Light
Shadows
Reflections
Silhouettes
Art relating to light
RE
World religions Buddhism
MFL
School based vocabulary
World War II links
Clothing
Home Learning Project
For your home learning projects this term you have free choice from the below activities. All of them
have clear links to World War II, and will enhance your learning about this topic.
If your work is of a good standard you will be awarded marbles for the class jar for completing it numbers underneath each idea show its marble value.
You may hand in your homework whenever you want throughout this term, and you are free to
complete as many of the projects as you wish. Get creative and have fun!
Keep a diary, just like Anne Frank.
Record the things that are happening in
your daily life.
4
Talk to friends or family about
their wartime memories or
stories.
Record their responses in writing
or via some other form.
4
Make a scrapbook of World War II
images and write captions for each
one.
Consider how the people shown in
the images might be feeling.
3
CHOICE OF
HOME
LEARNING
PROJECTS
Find some wartime recipes and make a
typical meal that would have used
rationed food at the time.
Record the recipe.
5
Imagine that you are an evacuee; you’re
allowed to take just one book with you
to your new home. Which would it be?
Conduct a survey amongst family and
friends to discover what book they
would choose, and feed back your
findings to the class.
4
Imagine that a child has been
evacuated to live with you.
How would you make them feel
welcome? Where would you
take them in your local area?
3
Record your own wartime
radio broadcast. If
possible, add sound effects
such as sirens or overhead
planes using an editing
package.
5