UKS2 Autumn Term 2 – WWI
Activities
Y5 Number
Puppy in the Window Activity – Using short division for more complex mental maths; using inverse
calculations to check your answers.
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Puppy in the Window Learn Screen – Using short division for more complex mental maths; using
inverse calculations to check your answers.
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Captain Cod Activity - Recognise square numbers up to 12 x 12 and calculate square numbers
beyond 100.
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Snow Hope Activity - Recognise squares and square roots.
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Y6 Number
Fun in the Sun Activity – Use estimation strategies in real life scenarios.
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Fun in the Sun Learn Screen – Use estimation strategies in real life scenarios.
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Year 5 / 6 activities
• Plan a party. Use written methods to calculate costs and stick to a given budget. Use the Internet to
source food prices and other supplies. Link to computing and input the information into a spreadsheet.
• Plan a weekly food shop, when rationing has been put in place, in a similar way to after WWI.
• Create and break codes, similar to the codes used in WWI and WWII. Introduce children to the Enigma
Machine, invented at the end of WWI, and used to encipher and decipher German transmissions.
Y5 Fractions and decimals and percentages
• Link fractions and percentages to sharing out quantities of food and other provisions between troops in
WWI.
Fractions Topic Tool – Compare and relate fractions to their decimal and percentage equivalent.
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Bargain Sale Activity - Solve problems involving percentages with decimals.
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Y6 Fractions and decimals and percentages
• Link to science – Investigate the different proportions of the human body and link to the image of da
Vinci’s Vitruvian man.
Up and Away Activity – Comparing fractions including when they have different denominators.
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Up and Away Learn Screen – Comparing fractions including when they have different
denominators.
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Fluffy Clouds Activity - Solve simple problems involving ratio and proportion.
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Y5 Measure
• On cm squared AO paper, draw a scaled drawing of a WWI army camp. Give a selection of floor areas
of different buildings. By calculating the possible lengths and widths of the rectangular buildings, using
the given areas, children should decide on a suitable layout and draw a scaled drawing of their camp.
Plant Pots Activity - Find the area of rectangles.
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Blanket Coverage Activity - Understand Area of Rectangles
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Y6 Measure
High Rise Activity - Calculate the volume of cubes and cuboids.
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Volume and Surface Areas Topic Tool - Calculate the volume of cubes and cuboids.
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Use cm square blocks to construct a scaled model of a WWI army camp. Give a selection of volumes of
different cubes and cuboids. By calculating the possible lengths widths and heights of the buildings,
given the volumes, children should decide on a suitable layout and make a scaled model of their camp.
Y5 Statistics
• Use a selection of local train and bus timetables to plan routes to different local destinations, to arrive
at a given time.
Y6 Statistics
Line Graph Topic Tool – Create line graphs
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Y5 Animals including humans
• Draw a life timeline. Include photographs at different stages of their life.
• Create a parenting booklet explaining the different stages of a child’s life from birth to adulthood, to
give to a new parent.
• Draw life cycles of humans and other animals on different sized circles. The smaller the radius of the
circle the shorter the overall life of the animal. Show the timespans of the different elements of each
animal’s life cycle, as different proportions of the circle, in a similar way to a pie chart. Create a
display to compare the lifecycles of different animals and humans.
All Changes Learn Screen - See the basic changes in the stages of life as humans develop from
birth to old age
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Y6 Animals including humans
• Link to PE and use heart rate monitors to investigate how pulse rate changes during exercise. represent
the information graphically
• Keep a food and exercise diary, for a week. Find healthy alternatives to some of the foods eaten.
• Look at rations used in WWI and WWII. Create a healthy balanced diet using the rations available at
the time.
• Create warning posters about the bad effects of alcohol, tobacco and drugs.
Basement Lab Activity – the different functions of the heart and how that links into the circulatory system.
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Basement Lab Learn Screen – the different functions of the heart and how that links into the
circulatory system.
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Body Systems Topic Tool – Identify and correctly locate organs within a human model.
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Bug Hunt Activity - Harmful effects of micro-organisms and how they can build up.
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Y5 and 6 Reading Comprehension
• Read a selection of texts which make reference to how soldiers celebrated Christmas during WWI. In
particular, to the temporary truce made between the German and British army and the suggestion of a
football game played between the groups of German and British soldiers on Christmas Day.
• Read a selection of WWI poetry including In Flanders Fields by John McCrae.
• Research and gather information about WWI by reading reference books and searching the Internet.
• Look at propaganda posters from WWI and compare and contrast the messages that they convey.
Hold a discussion about the persuasiveness of the different ways the messages are conveyed.
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Teleprompter Topic Tool – Engage in shared reading, fluency building and individual performance
activities.
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Forms of Poetry Topic Tool – Explore a range of poem types (Bank C).
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Forms of Poetry Topic Tool – Explore a range of poem types (Bank D).
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Y5 and 6 Writing
Narrative:
• Become a reporter from WWI, reporting back from the trenches. Write a newspaper article describing
how the soldiers celebrated Christmas Day in the trenches.
• Become a soldier in the trenches in WWI on Christmas Day. Write a letter to a friend or family member
back home to explain how you celebrated Christmas when the fighting stopped.
• Design a propaganda campaign poster from WWI encouraging people to understand the importance of
rationing, and offering suggestions of how to feed a family a Christmas lunch with rationed supplies.
• Look at different poetry styles of WWI poetry and write a poem including similes, metaphors and
personification.
Skate Debate Learn Screen - How to structure a persuasive argument taking your audience into
consideration.
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The Grape Debate Activity - Use a range of oral techniques to present persuasive arguments.
Use the techniques of dialogic talk to explore ideas, topics or issues.
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Non-Fiction:
• Use the Internet to research the foods available during WWI, as a result of rationing, and write recipe
instructions for making different WWI recipes (e.g. the sweet desert called Parkin).
The Writing Process (Overview) Learn Screen – Understand what it means to plan a text.
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The Writing Process (Planning) Learn Screen – Understand what it means to plan a text.
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Y5 and 6 Vocabulary, grammar and punctuation
Wilderness Park Activity – identify the common noun, proper noun, collective noun or noun phrase
within a sentence.
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Wilderness Park Learn Screen – identify the common noun, proper noun, collective noun or noun
phrase within a sentence.
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Grammar Island Quest 3 Learn Screen - Use expanded noun phrases
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Link to maths and use a spreadsheet package to plan and budget for a party.
Use a publishing package to create a WWI newspaper article.
Use the Internet to research historical facts about WWI.
Use the Flow Diagram tool to write an algorithm to encipher a secret message and create the
corresponding deciphering algorithm.
Programming for Beginners Learn Screen - Explore vocabulary associated with computer programming.
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Flow Diagram Topic Tool – Design algorithms using a flow diagram.
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French
Tour du Monde (Country Names) Activity - Recognise the names of Francophone countries in a
meteorological context.
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Ici, c’est Comme Ça! Learn screen - Everyday cultural differences between Britain and France.
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Spanish
Vuelta al Mundo Activity - Recognise the names of Hispanophone countries in a meteorological context.
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ART DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY
• To learn about great artists , architects and designers in history
• Research about the Ministry of Information’s official war artists; scheme, from 1916, and the Imperial
War museum’s function in collecting art from WWI.
• Look at images of trench art for WWI. Using only materials that can be found in daily life, design and
make a piece of trench art, to give as a Christmas present.
• Make a clay poppy and attach a message for a soldier.
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MUSIC
• Listen to well-known songs from WWI.
• Practise and perform songs such as It’s a Long Way to Tipperary and Pack up Your Troubles.
• Practise marching and singing to different drum beats.
PE
• Competitive games – Football
• Choose and use simple tactics and strategies to dodge and attack.
• Practise dribbling, learning to pass the ball.
• Understand the importance and skills needed to defend.
HISTORY / GEOGRAPHY
• Create a timeline of key events in WWI.
• On a map of Europe label the countries involved in WWI identifying the different alliances.
• Visit a local WWI memorial and research some of the local people mentioned.
• Create a multimedia presentation about key events from WWI such as the Battle of the Somme, The
Treaty of Versailles.
• Research and compare how people’s diets have changed from the rationing in WWI to a modern day
diet. Look at where food in Britain comes from today and compare to how 60 -70% of food was
imported from abroad during WWI.
• Research the history behind the first Remembrance Day on November 11th 1918.
• Understand that Remembrance Day is a type of celebration. Look at different types of celebrations
from around the world. Research the different reasons for these celebrations (e.g. the end of a war like
Remembrance Day or Victory in Europe Day, religious festivals such as Diwali, Hanukkah and
Christmas).
• Create a multimedia presentation about the different reasons we celebrate and how different cultures
celebrate similar events such as birthdays and Christmas.
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