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Curriculum
Year 4
Project
During this term the children have been working towards answering the Essential Question of ‘What was it like being a child during World War 2?’
This has included:
English
- Writing a diary page as an evacuee
- Making notes from research
- Creating propaganda posters
- Writing instructions for a wartime recipe
- Writing an explanation text about the similarities and differences between Christianity and Judaism
- Wrote and answered ‘hot seating’ questions after watching the film ‘Goodnight Mr Tom’.
- Writing a recount following our trip to Eden Camp
- Creating a short comic strip about the properties of materials
Maths
- Learning about the properties of 3D shapes for our air raid shelter design
- Exploring map scales to measure how far soldiers travelled
- Looking at quantities of foods that were rationed during the war
Science
- Investigating the different properties of materials
- Testing the properties of different materials - such as were they waterproof, strong, flexible, soft, rough or smooth?
Computing
- Making a DVD of our learning throughout the project.
- Researching air raid shelters and the materials they were constructed from
- Researching rationed foods and rationing books
Geography
- Studying maps and locating countries who were our allies and axes during the war
- Looking at world maps to find countries who fought in the war
History
- Finding out about the history of World War Two
- Learning about why children were evacuated, and where to
- Studying a timeline of events during the war
- Looking at why foods were rationed, and the different amounts for different groups of people
- Exploring Anderson Shelters – how and why they were used
- Looking at music ,songs and sounds from the period
- Exploring feelings and emotions on VE Day
Art
- Creating propaganda posters using different techniques
- Representing the blitz using wax crayons and limited colours
- Designing and making ‘stained glass’ pictures for our windows – representing the 7 days of creation
- Creating colour cards for ‘Town and Country’
D.T
- Planning a model of an air raid shelter
- Making an air raid shelter
Music
- Holding ‘singalongs’ - with songs such as ‘We’ll Meet Again’ and ‘When I’m Cleaning Windows’
- Holding a mini tea-dance to Glenn Miller, with our former evacuee visitors
- Listening to background music from the time, during class activities
R.E.
- Comparing the differences and similarities between Christianity and Judaism
- Holding Christian wedding services, and Jewish wedding services
P.E
Creating a dance displaying emotions of evacuees
Experiences to enhance the learning have been:
- A visit to Eden Camp exhibition
- Visits from two former evacuees
- A visit from a cartoonist who currently writes for the Beano and the Dandy (the only 2 cartoons to be produced during World War 2 – so that the children had some form of entertainment)
- The final project included an exhibition to sell our DVD that we created, showing a range of our learning and activities during this topic.
In addition to the projects running your child has also been taught ‘stand-alone’ lessons including
Maths skills, English skills, Handwriting, Guided Reading, Religious Education, Singing and Personal Development. They have also studied the book ‘Blitz – The Diary of Edie Benson, London 1940-1941’’ by Edie Benson.