These are two lessons that I did with my year 6 class on the build to the Holocaust and about the genocide itself. The first lessons looks at discrimination, anti-semitism and the laws that Nazis introduced to restrict the rights of Jewish people. It ends with pupils writing a reflective paragraph on what we can learn from this. The second lesson looks at what happened in the concentration camps and at different memorials that have been designed to commemorate the millions of deaths. The children then design their own memorial to the murdered victims of the Nazis.

This is a cross-curricular lesson that I did with my year 6 class when learning about World War 2. The slides explain the background and lead up to Dunkirk. There are video links to the film ( I showed short clips of these) alongside my description of what it was like. The class loved the videos! I wrote two poems to model what I wanted from them. They came up with some really lovely, emotive poetry.