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English
Newspapers
All about
. the WW2, children
will be immersed in what life
was like in this time by
research, role-play. We will
then write a variety of
recounts to create a WW2
newspaper.
History
Maths -
To understand what Britain was like in the 1930’s.
To understand when World War II started and
why.
To learn about bombing raid in Britain (Blitz). To
understand how people protected themselves.
To understand the need for evacuation. To find
out the experiences and feelings of evacuees
from a range of sources.
To understand the effect of war on everyday life.
To learn what rationing as and how it worked.
To learn about the end of World War II. To learn
about how people celebrated the end of the war.
To make connections between World War II and
today (and the UN.)
2D and 3D shapes with
symmetry.
Mental addition and missing
numbers.
Column addition and subtraction.
2/4/8 times tables.
Fractions.
Rounding addition and
subtraction.
ICT
Scratch – computer
programming
Cross curricular teaching
SEAL
Writing letters
Christmas is coming. This fun
topic builds up to Christmas
with writing letters to Father
Christmas, learning about
tense, writing in the 3rd
person and using powerful
verbs, We will also be writing
letters home as a WW2
soldier.
French
Getting on and Falling Out
World War 2
Autumn
DT/Art
Science
Year
3
Teeth and eating –
DT -To use ingredients available in the
1940’s to make a ‘war time’ fruitcake.
Rationing menus
Model of Anderson shelter.
Art – Propaganda posters
Fruit/ vegetables
Classroom orders
Geography
Music
Following the wider
opportunities program with
guitars.
To understand which countries were
involved in World War II.
To place events in chronological order.
To understand how the war affected
children in different countries in different
ways.
To learn who Anne Frank was and why she
is famous.
Science
Describe an adequate and varied diet
for humans, recognising that there are
many ways of achieving this; explain
how they should look after their teeth
and recognise why they need to do
so; suggest questions about diet to be
investigated; make relevant
observations and present results in
bar charts and tables. Compare the
diets and teeth of humans and other
animals
RE
Does a beautiful world mean
there is a wonderful god?
PE
Dodgeball
Football with Denis