As writers we will use persuasive writing to persuade someone to be on our side. We will write diaries as an evacuee and letters home to our loved ones. We will also be writing instructions and recipes based on rationing.

As readers we will read stories, fact files, letters, diaries and poems which will explore what it was like during wartime. We will also read and discuss our class texts ‘Letters from the Lighthouse’ and ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’.

As mathematicians we will read graphs, tables and other types of data to discover key information about the people involved in the wartime effort. We will also be weighing and measuring rationed foods and codebreaking as we put ourselves into the role of those working at Bletchley Park.

As scientists we will be investigating the force of air resistance, looking at the effect on planes and parachutes.

As historians we will investigate and discover what life was like during war time Britain using both first-hand accounts (from Grandparents and people in our local area) and a range of secondary resources.

As geographers we will locate the countries involved in WW2 and the invasions which took place. We will use maps to identify cities and places in the UK which were badly bombed and areas of evacuation.

As artists and designers we will focus on the propaganda poster campaign. We will also prepare and cook a variety of dishes sticking to rationing quotas.

As musicians we will listen to several famous war time pieces of music and sing songs such as ‘Run Rabbit’ and ‘Long way to Tipperary’. We will also be putting on our dancing shoes and trying a bit of the Jitterbug and the Lindy Hop.