Transcript We`ll Meet Again - Spring 2014

Winter Class
Cycle B Spring
Topic File
We’ll meet again.
Rationale
We’ll Meet Again
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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.
Hook: Trip to
Steam – Museum
of the GWR in
Swindon.
PSHE
History
Literacy
•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.
DT
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Identify features of Anderson shelters.
Test materials for task.
Create and build own air raid shelter
from appropriate materials.
Outcome
To write a diary extract from the
perspective of an evacuated child.
Thinking
•Increase their levels of
understanding through
discussion and empathy.
•Be able to explain their
reasoning and justify their
opinions to others.
•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.
Creativity
•See things from different
perspectives and be inspired to be
open-minded.
•Appreciate their own efforts as well
as the efforts of others.
Art
•Blitz pictures using pastels.
•Make labelled drawings and diagrams.
•Create a propaganda poster.
ICT
•Use of digital cameras.
•Creation of animation in Movie Maker.
•Use of sound/music.
•Use of Publisher to communicate learning.
Winter Class
Cycle B Spring
Home Learning
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 Britain
Useful websites:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/Britain.html
http://www.thebigworld.co.uk/howtodigforvictory.htm
We’ll meet again.
To be handed in by
21st March 2014
Winter Class
Cycle B Spring
These are some of the areas of learning and
activities your child will be focusing on this term:
Study language of persuasive
argument and balanced
discussions.
Create Blitz pictures
Examine photographs and
eye witness accounts.
Examine work during the
war and contribution to the
war effort.
Find out about
rationing.
Create own
identity card
We’ll meet
again.
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.
Develop skills of recount writing in
the role of an evacuee.
Visit Steam – The
Museum of the
GWR in Swindon.
Consider the feelings
of different people at
the outbreak of war.
Study Anne Frank’s Diary
and Goodnight Mr Tom.
Analyse strengths and
weaknesses of solving
problems that occurred
during WWII.
Examine artefacts.
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.