WWII Day – Dress up, experiences –
school/shelter building/air raid
Additional Experiences
Caves and Walk in the Peak District
Watch a ballet
The Journey – Holocaust Museum
*Residential*
Outcomes
(including published
work)
Performance in assembly at the end
of term – The unexpected journey – Music, drama and dance elements.
Artwork in 2D and 3D form.
Plan and complete a walk in the Peak
District
Children to have improved their
personal best in completing a km.
Artwork in different scales and
colours and media to represent wings.
Use cams to create moving scenes
from Skellig.
To create a scrapbook to show the
discoveries made by Charles Darwin.
Create a ballet piece to encompass
music and dance.
Year 6 Horrible History Museum –
pulls together work from all areas of the curriculum.
A collage of faces to produce a
memorial for those who died in the Holocaust.
A chronological understanding of
what happened in WWII.
Children to be able to complete a
Jive
Spoken Language
Being a leader
Taking on the leader role during our walk.
Perform in the Unexpected Party
Contribute towards the Unexpected party performance.
Meeting Strangers.
Interacting with people from different backgrounds and cultures
and adapting to different situations – Careers fair/Bring a parent to school
day/Different cultures from the local community.
Finding out about the past
During the visit to the Holocaust
Museum listen to stories from the past and ask questions that link with it.
Horrible Histories Year 6 Museum
Children to contribute to the class
museum
Drama
Create and Perform an Unexpected Party
Create scenes that explore issues raised in The Hobbit.
Freeze frames
Use freeze frames to explore the characters and their emotions.
Air raid role play
Role play getting out of the dilemma
Reading
The Hobbit
Use passages from the Hobbit and other relevant texts to develop
vocabulary, prediction, retrieval, summarising, inferences and author’s use
of language.
Skellig
Use passages from the Hobbit and other relevant texts to do revision
of domains that the children are not secure with.
Fireweed/Boy in the striped Pyjamas
Developing responses to multi mark questions.
WWII songs and poems
Unpick the language and author’s intent linked with songs and
poems from the period.
Writing
Fiction – Character descriptions – Model text – Bilbo. Innovate - Gandalf. Hot task
– Children to select a Dwarf to write about.
Poetry – From a Railway Carriage Way – RLS. Imagery in the countryside.
Non Fiction – Non-Chronological reports about different locations – Middle Earth,
Doncaster, Peak District
Fiction – Journey story/quest
Fiction – Finding story
Non Fiction – Newspaper report about the discovery
Poetry – Ted Hughes
Fiction – Dilemma Story – Air raid shelter
Non Fiction – Diary – Anne Frank’s Diary.
Poetry – Holocaust
Fiction – Warning story
Mathematics
Integers and
Decimals
Multiplication
and Division
Calculation
Problems
Fractions
Missing angles
and length
Coordinates and
shape
Decimals and
measures
Percentages and
Statistics
Proportion
Problems
Revision of key
units and identified units from gaps analysis
Science
Staying alive –
Humans
Working Scientifically
(Rising Star –
MCo)
We’re evolving
– Evolution and Inheritance
Classifying
Critters – Animals and Plants
Working Scientifically
Let it Shine – Light
Electrifying – Electric
Working Scientifically
Art & Design
Tim Jeffs - 2D sketches in the style of Tim Jeffs – line and tone skills.
Tim Jeffs - 3D sculptures of mythical creature’s eye using clay skills.
(MCa)
Wings (Victoria Horkon)
Exploring colour and painting techniques to create wings in
different scales. Acrylic paint/pouring.
Large scale wings for children to stand in.
Propaganda Posters
Discover the use of propaganda
posters in WWII and use technology to create our own.
Faces
A collage of faces to recreate the
memorial from Berlin.
Computing
Spreadsheet
Use formulas to calculate the cost of the trip and the picnic.
Communication and online safety - Blogging
Create blogs to capture the journey of the Hobbit.
-Tweeting
Create weekly tweets about our learning.
(MCo)
Coding - Discrete
– Purple mash
Networks - Discrete
– Purple mash
Quizzing
Design and create their own revision quizzes.
Text Adventure
Create alternatives based on the decisions taken by characters
at key points in the story.
DT
Cooking
Design, budget, make and evaluate a healthy picnic for our
planned walk in the Peak District.
(MCo)
Technical knowledge – Cams
Design, make and evaluate a moving screens from Skellig.
Electrical circuits
Create a circuit to make the buzzer
sound to alert people to an air raid and challenge turn off the lights.
Geography
Map skills
To apply map reading skills to plan and carry out a walk in the
Peak District.
Physical and Human Geography
To be able to compare the landscapes of the Peak District with
Doncaster.
(MCo)
Time Zones
Use Charles Darwin’s boat journey of discovery to understand the
different time zones around the world.
The countries in involved in WWII
Use maps and photos to describe the
physical and human features of Germany, UK, France before and after the
war.
History
Explorers
Look at famous explorers and expeditions; Everest and The Race
to the Poles
(MCa)
Charles Darwin
Look at how Charles Darwin changed what we know about the world
and about animals.
WWII
Look at the cause, events and impact
of WWII and where it fits in the course of history.
Letters from the front line
Children to write letters in role
from the front line.
Foreign Language
Food
Naming healthy and unhealthy food in Spanish. Ordering food in
Spanish.
Appearance
Describing what people look like in Spanish and being able to
describe a person from the class.
(MCa)
Nursery rhymes
Learn nursery rhymes in Spanish.
Music
Film Music
Classical music, London philharmonic orchestra study of
orchestral instruments and their position within the orchestra. Score study – Themes written for hobbit.
Analyse score and learn notation of each theme. Theory of music.
(LSu)
Classical
Listen and respond to different classical composers throughout
time.
WWII music – We’ll meet again
Learn and perform classics from WWI
End of Year Assembly and Performance
Learn and perform in the end of year
performance
Physical Education
Fitness
Improve our fitness levels so that all children can complete a
km and improve on their personal best.
Outdoor Adventure Activities
To apply map reading skills to plan and carry out a walk in the
Peak District.
(MCo)
Indoor Athletics
To develop children’s skills in a range of indoor athletics
events and to prepare them for competition entry.
Netball – High 5
To develop throwing and catching skills. To develop an understanding
of working together as part of a team.
Rounders
Improve striking and fielding skills and to prepare them for
competition entry.
Athletics
To develop children’s skills in a range of athletics events and
to prepare them for competition entry.
Dance
An Unexpected Party
Compose a dance using a series of complex movements to tell
their version of the unexpected party using control.
(MCo – New Jess)
Billy Elliot
Look at and explore ballet.
Jive
Learn to do a 1940s Jive.
PSHE
Being Me in My World
Describe a
person from the class using their qualities not their appearance – can we
identify who it is?
Celebrating Differences
Dreams and Goals
Healthy Me
Relationships
Changing Me
Religious Education
Believing – What does religion teach us when
life is hard?
Expressing/Celebrations – Diwali, Christingle, The
Christmas Journey
Expressing – Is it better to express religion
through art and architecture or charity and generosity?
Expressing/Celebrations – The Easter Journey
Living - What difference does it make to
believe in Ahimsa, Grace and/or Ummah?
