Y5 Turing
English/Literacy
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Discussion/Persuasion – Why should Alan
Turing be considered as one of the most
important people of all time?
Information Text on London – where he grew
up/studied.
Diary Entry – Writing about his discoveries.
Alan Turing – Codebreaker
Art
DT
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London Skyline
History
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Propaganda Posters
Statues of Alan Turing
Micrography
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Sketch of Turing
Autobiographies
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Plan, Design, Edit, and
evaluate the Turing
Machine
Create their own design
of a similar device to the
Turing machine and pitch
it Dragons Den style.
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Interview/hot seating with Alan Turing.
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Mathematics/Numeracy
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Code Cracking
Algebra
Computing
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Problem Solving
Programming
Algorithms to create a code cracker game
Evolution of technology
Research into Alan Turing
Turing Machine
PHSE
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LGBT – Celebrating differences.
British Values
Moral values – was it right to crack the enemies
code? Arguments for/against. Could do a
debate on the subject. Maybe compare it to
phone hacking in today’s society.
Looking into the time
that Turing grew up in –
WW2, looking at key
events, what life would
have been like in school.
Comparison to what life
was like in WW2
compared to the
modern day.
Looking at other famous
people that were
around at that time or
who he went to school
with at Cambridge.
Looking at King George
who was the monarch
at that time.
Sports/PE
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Long distance running like Turing
Olympic Sports because Turing tried
out for the long distance at the
Olympics.