Year 6: How did World War II affect the British people? NC - links WOW : Trip to Chistlehurst Caves and Bushey LC1 How did WW11 begin? LC2 What was life like during the Blitz? LC3 What was it like to be evacuated? LC4 What was life like on the home front during WW11? LC5 What is propaganda? LC6 What was life like after the war? LC7 Reflection Point: Host a WW11 themed street party Literacy Link: Setting and character descriptions, Recount, Science Link: Evolution and Inheritance Geography Link: Maps (General Enquiry) Numeracy: See Medium Term Plans History: Chronological Understanding ICT: Blog Forest Academy1 Wow: Trip to Chistlehurst Caves and Bushey Goodnight Mister Tom Friend or Foe

How did World War II affect the British people? Year 6 ScienceGeographyICT Can they give reasons for why living things produce offspring of the same kind? Can they give reasons for why offspring are not identical with each other or with their parents? Can they explain the process of evolution and describe the evidence for this? Can they begin to appreciate that variation in offspring over time can make animals more or less able to survive in particular environments? Can they talk about the life of Charles Darwin? Can they explain how some living things adapt to survive in extreme conditions? Can they analyse the advantages and disadvantages of specific adaptations, such as being on two rather than four feet? Can they begin to understand what is meant by DNA? Can they confidently explain scale and use maps with a range of scales? Can they choose the best way to collect information needed and decide the most appropriate units of measure? Can they make careful measurements and use the data? Can they use OS maps to answer questions? Can they use maps, aerial photos, plans and web resources to describe what a locality might be like? Can they define geographical questions to guide their research? Can they use a range of self selected resources to answer questions? We are app creators – understanding the power of Smart Phones and using basic software to create own app. Can they confidently choose the correct page set up option when creating a document? Can they confidently use text formatting tools, including heading and body text? Can they use the ‘hanging indent’ tool to help format work where appropriate (e.g. a play script)? (POW) History Can they say where a period of history fits on a timeline? Can they place a specific event on a timeline by decade? Can they place features of historical events and people from past societies and periods in a chronological framework? 2Forest Academy

Year 6: How did World War II affect the British people? LC1 – How did WW11 begin? LC2 - What was life like during the Blitz? Can I locate countries and physical features on a map of the world and Europe? Can I use primary and secondary resources to find out about key events and people at the beginning of World War II? Can I read different statements describing key events in WW2 and place in chronological order to create a timeline? Can I create a newspaper report of Britain declaring war on Germany? Can I discuss some of the major events during the war? Can I present and write a non-chronological report? Can I use different medium to a compose a picture of the London skyline during the Blitz? Can I find out about characteristic features of life during the Blitz? Can I describe what I see, I think and what I wonder from a photograph? Can I describe a setting? Forest Academy3

Year 6: How did World War II affect the British people? LC3 - What was it like to be evacuated?LC4 - What was life like on the home front during WW11? Can I use photographs to make deductions of what happened to evacuees during World War Two? Can I Sympathise with the people in photographs and write a diary extract to reflect the picture? Were all children evacuated? Why/Why not? Where were they evacuated? What would you put in your suitcase? Can I write a postcard home as an evacuee about the journey and the first night in my new home? Can I analyse documents for their information and reliability? Can I write a play script? Can I empathise with the evacuees when they arrived at Little Weirwold (particularly Willie at Tom’s house)? Can I discuss some of the major events during the war? Can I present and write a non-chronological report? Can I explain what life was like in Croydon during the war? Can I visualise and write about a character? Can I visualise and describe a setting? Can I write as Willie a recount of his first day Tom’s house in Little Weirwold? Can I empathise with Tom, Willie and the villagers at the announcement that Britain was now at war? Can I write a diary extract from one of the character’s view? Forest Academy4

Year 6: How did World War II affect the British people? LC5 - What is propaganda? Can I use my understanding of propaganda posters to design our own poster? Forest Academy5