Year 6 Autumn Term Topic

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Read...
Look out for these books in your classroom, in the hall or at Brierfield Library!

Key vocabulary...

Adolf Hitler
Anne Frank
Axis and Allied forces
concentration camps
D-Day
declaration of war
demilitarised
discrimination
equality
evacuee
Holocaust
Neville Chamberlin
prejudice
propaganda
Treaty of Versailles
VE Day
VJ Day
Winston Churchill

Fascinating facts...

  • The Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlin shared the ‘Declaration of war’ by radio broadcast on 3rd September 1939, 11am.

  • Axis forces: Germany, Italy, and Japan, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania.

  • Allied forces: Britain, France, Russia, Poland, China and the United States.

  • By the end of the Second World War, around 3.5 million people, mainly children had experienced evacuation.

  • 75 million people died in World War II, including about 20 million military personnel and 40 million civilians, many of whom died because of deliberate genocide, massacres, mass-bombings, disease, and starvation.

  • 8 May 1945 - Winston Churchill announced VE Day - Victory in Europe. This day marked the end of WW2 in Europe. Street parties were held all over Britain to celebrate the end of the war.

Explore...

The Anne Frank website has lots more to learn about Anne, her family and the secret annex where Anne wrote her diary.
BBC School Radio has lots of clips about World War 2 such as news reports and speeches from important figures of the time including Winston Churchill and the Queen (when she was Princess Elizabeth).
BBC School Radio has 3 great audio books of stories set in World War 2 to listen to. 
​Click on the pictures below to go the website.
Friend or Foe
The Machine Gunners
Carrie's War

Visit...

Imperial War Museum North - Manchester
Stockport Air Raid Shelters - Stockport

Do...

  • Build your own model air raid shelter using an old shoe box.

  • Make do and mend was a slogan of WW2, why not have a go yourself and try to repair or repurpose some old clothes at home.  Check with an adult first to make sure it's ok for you to do it and take care if you are using sharp needles.

  • People were also encouraged to grow their own vegetables - ask an adult to help you plant a vegetable plant or some seeds in your garden or in a pot in the yard.  Can you 'Dig for Victory'?​​

In school...

Class Novel - Goodnight Mister Tom
​by Michelle Magorian
Class Novel - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
​ by John Boyne