World War II
Literacy
National Curriculum Year 4 Programme of Study;
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First person recount
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Persuasive writing
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Letter writing/postcards
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Newspaper article/journalistic writing
Grammar
Determiners
Possessive pronouns
Pronouns
Plurals
Fronted Adverbials
Maths
National Curriculum Year 4 Programme of
Study;
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Number Sense
Additive Reasoning
Multiplicative Reasoning
Geometric Reasoning Volume, length, area and perimeter
(linked to Anderson shelters)
Science
Living things and their habitats
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Recognise that plants and animals can be grouped in a variety of ways.
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Explore a variety of living things in their local and wider environment.
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Recognise environments can change; this can cause dangers to living things.
Animals, including humans
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Basic functions of the digestive system
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Types of teeth in humans and their function
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Understand food chains
History
A significant turning point in British History
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Why was WWII a turning point for this country? What happened? What is its lasting impact?
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How did WWII change Britain’s landscape, farming, industry, jobs for women, children and architecture
and housing?
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Why was ‘Dig for Victory’ imperative during WWII? - Plant vegetables, look after and harvest to make
soup.
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What was the impact of air raids during WWII? - What were they? What happened?- Build shelters and
use for lessons throughout the topic
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What was the lasting impact of evacuation?
Geography
Locate the worlds countries involved in WWII using maps
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What are the environmental regions, key physical/human characteristics of the countries involved in
WWII?
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Which countries and major cities were involved in WWII? -France, Germany, Austria, Russia, America,
Canada, Japan, UK, Belgian, Italy
Autumn Term
Computing
Introduction to Microsoft publisher –
select, use and combine a variety of
software on a range of devices. (Multi
–media)
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Newspapers
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Blitz newspaper article
Art and Design
To improve art techniques using chalk,
charcoal and paint.
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Chalk/ charcoal/paint – blitz
scenes –to improve their mastery
of art and design techniques,
including drawing with a range of
materials
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WWII posters
MFL
Language Angel – Names of everyday
items, simple commands, revising
colours and numbers
D and T
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Use research to design an Anderson
Shelter that is functional, fit for purpose
and aimed at particular groups of children.
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Make/ produce a model – build structures,
exploring how they can be made stronger,
stiffer and more stable
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Evaluate model against design criteria
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Understand seasonality and know where
and how our ingredients are grown and
processed
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Prepare and cook a variety of WWII dishes
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Evaluate against design criteria
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Make do and mend.
Music
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WWII songs –develop an understanding of
historical music
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Wider opportunities with MH (cello)
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Charanga (music programme) –play and
perfom, improvise and compose, listen
with attention to detail, use and
understand musical notations
PE
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RE
Inspirational people – why is Jesus an
inspiration to us?
Dance using’ In the mood’ by Glen Miller
sound track. – Creating a class dance using
moves from the 1940’s -use a range of
movement patterns
Netball/Tennis – Play competitive games
applying basic principles suitable for
attacking and defending
PSHE
SEAL
New beginnings; setting goals, emotions
around new challenges