Narrative – Evacuation of a child (3 weeks)

Non-chronological report – World War 2 (3 weeks)

Short formal method of multiplication

Revision of all 4 operations applied in context and using decimals and money

Solving problems with fractions and decimals to 2 decimal places in the context of money

Solve problems involving increasingly harder fractions to calculate quantities, and fractions to divide quantities, including non-unit fractions where the answer is a whole number

Add and subtract 2 fractions with a common denominator

Describe positions and movements between positions on a 2D grid and as coordinates in the first quadrant

If appropriate – translation of shapes

Plot points to draw a polygon

Read roman numerals to 100, concept of 0 and place value

Solve problems involving integer scaling and distributive law

States of matter – Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases.

Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled and measure or research the temperature of which this happens in degrees Celsius.

To identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with the temperature.

What was the Blitz and how did people in Britain cope with it?

What was it like being a child in the war?

To understand the need for evacuation.

Did any evacuees come to our school?

To understand the effects of the air raids.

How did family life change?

How did people find out what was happening?

To appreciate how items found belonging to the past are helping us to build up an accurate picture of how people lived in the past.

To explain how events from the past have helped shape our lives.

To research two versions of an event and say how they differ.

To research what it was like for children in a given period from the past and use photographs and illustrations to present their findings.