Topic 2: ‘Secret Agents'

History: Looking at the significance of the Battle of Britain as a turning point in British history, and the role of intelligence agents during WW2.

History Key Questions:

• What were the major events leading up to the Battle of Britain?
• Which countries were involved?
• Who was Churchill?
• What were the Luftwaffe's plans for invading Britain?
• How do we know about them?
• What role did British pilots play during the Battle of Britain?
• Why was it significant?

English:

• Learning to persuade - looking at propaganda
• Persuasive writing - letters, notes and debates
• Use colons, semi-colons and dashes to punctuate
• Descriptive writing
• Performance poetry

Maths:

• Factors and multiples
• Fractions – equivalence, simplifying, comparing and ordering
• Converting mixed numbers to improper fractions
• Addition and subtraction of fractions with different denominators
• Multiplying and dividing fractions
• Area and perimeter

Science - Electricity / Forces

• What are the dangers of electricity?
• Completing and repairing circuits
• Drawing circuit diagrams
• Friction & air resistance (catch-up from Y5)

Computing:

• Scratch - using IF/ELSE blocks to control options
• E-safety – privacy, security and risk online
• Breaking problems into algorithms
• Learning to program in MakeCode and download this to Micro:Bits 

DT:  Using electronics with switches to create secret agent Morse code devices

PE: Games: Invasion games - basketball  Dance:  based on WW2 & the Charleston

Music: Songs of WW2, Creating propaganda music

RE:  The Christmas Mystery: Why two stories?  Considering the idea of interpretation and how the Christian account of Jesus’ birth is described in the Bible in the books of Matthew and Luke.