English

Summer Term

Stories with a familar setting- The seaside

The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch

We read the story and added actions. Next we innovated the story and made a story plan. Finally we used our plan to write our own story.

Explanations

How paper is made.

We watched a film clip explaining the process of how paper is made and then write our own explanation text.

Animal Stories

The Wind in the Willows By Kenneth Grahame

We enjoyed listening to the story and acting out parts of it with our friends. We looked at the different settings- The Riverbank, The Open Road and The Wild Wood. We talked about what we might find there and linked this to our Science learning on habitats. We wrote a story based on the chapter Mr. Toad. We tried to include lots of suffixes.

Spring Term

Stories with familiar settings

Mudpuddle Farm By Michael Morpurgo

In this unit we have read some of the adventures set on Mudpuddle Farm. We thought about how the characters might feel at different points in the story and did lots of role play. We wrote our own adventure story set on a farm.

Persuasion

In this unit we helped Farmer Rafferty make a leaflet for his farm persuading visitors to come. We looked at lots of leaflets and found the different words and phrases that were used to persuade people to visit. We then used some of these in our own work. We also remembered to include things like prices, opening times and a map.

Narrative- Stories by a familiar author

The Pirate Cruncher By Jonny Duddle

We enjoyed listening to and acting out parts of the story. We collected a word bank of interesting words from the story. We then used our T4W to retell the story. We used some of the ideas from the story to write one of our own.

Non-Chronological Reports- Explorers

For the unit we have used our research from our theme topic ‘ Explorers’ to write a booklet all about Neil Armstrong.

Autumn Term

Stories with familiar settings

We have been reading the story 'The Pirates Next Door' by Jonny Duddle. We acted out the story, wrote letters to the council complaining about pirates and wrote our own story all about the pirates next door.

Non-Chronological Reports

We received a letter from 'Jim Lad' one of the characters from' The Pirates Next Door' asking for help. He was worried he was not looking after his dog properly.
We decided we needed to write a booklet.
A visitor came from ‘Pendle Dogs in Need’. She told us how to care for a dog and showed us some of the things we needed. Her dog Tully was very well behaved. He even did some tricks!
We used this information to help us write our booklets. 

Riddles

After reading lots of riddles we found out that a riddle is a series of clues written to fool the reader. We continued our research into dogs using film clips and books. We used the information we had collected to write our own riddles. We had fun trying to think of really tricky clues.

Traditional Tales

We have been learning about traditional tales with a twist. The story we focused on was Little Red Riding Hood. We retold the story using ‘talk4write’ and then used this to create a role on the wall for each character. We used a drama technique called 'freeze framing' to focus on the thoughts feelings and actions of the characters at different points of the story.

Instructions

After helping Mrs Collins to make a sandwich and giving and following instructions we found out that all instructions need to be short, clear and include an imperative verb. We looked at lots of different types of instructions-  rules for games, recipes and things to make and build.

Poetry

The Night Before Christmas By Clement Clarke Moore

In this unit we learnt the poem The Night Before Christmas. We looked at the vocabulary used in the poem and found out the meanings of lots of words we didn't know.

We wrote descriptions of Father Christmas and used these to write our own poems.