English

Autumn1 - A Bear called Paddington

Key Learning

Towards the end of the unit, children will be writing their own Paddington Adventure story. By then children will be able to:

• Use subordination for time.g. when, before and after
• explore and identify complex sentences using a range of conjunctions. g. when, before, after, while, until.
• use a comma to separate clause in complex sentences where the subordinate clause appears first.
• identify, generate and effectively use noun phrases. g. The blue butterfly with shimmering wings…
• select vocabulary from a vocabulary banks
• use inverted commas to punctuation direct speech (speech marks)
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Explore the clips before to familiarise yourself with Paddington.

Paddington meets the Brown family http://www.viewpure.com/sCgnuhb45ik?start=0&end=0

Mr Bown joins Paddington for tea http://www.viewpure.com/VBku6tXLDo4?start=0&end=0

Autumn1 - Biographies

Key Learning

During this unit we will be exploring a number of author biographies before researching a popular author and writing our own.

By the end of the unit, children will be able to:

1. recognise key features of a biography including the structural layout and language features
2. understand and use subheadings
3. use subordination for time.g. when, before and after
4. explore and identify complex sentences using a range of conjunctions. g. when, before, after, while, until.
5. use a comma to separate clause in complex sentences where the subordinate clause appears first.
6. be able to write in the past tense
7. write in the third person   

We spent some time looking at different biographies about famous authors such as Roald Dahl, J K Rowling and Jeff Kinney. The children really enjoyed learning about different authors. We then researched our favourite authour and collected facts about them before writing a biography about them.

We can't wait to share with you some finished biographies.

Autumn1 - Biographies

Key Learning

During this unit we will be exploring a number of author biographies before researching a popular author and writing our own.

By the end of the unit, children will be able to:

1. recognise key features of a biography including the structural layout and language features
2. understand and use subheadings
3. use subordination for time.g. when, before and after
4. explore and identify complex sentences using a range of conjunctions. g. when, before, after, while, until.
5. use a comma to separate clause in complex sentences where the subordinate clause appears first.
6. be able to write in the past tense
7. write in the third person   

We spent some time looking at different biographies about famous authors such as Roald Dahl, J K Rowling and Jeff Kinney. The children really enjoyed learning about different authors. We then researched our favourite authour and collected facts about them before writing a biography about them.

We can't wait to share with you some finished biographies.

Poetry 

On Friday 21st October we created recipes for a good friend and enjoyed practically combining ingredients of different qualities we thoguht a good friend should have. Some of the qualities (ingredients) were equality, happiness, loyalty, kindness etc. Take a look at the pictures and video clips below.

Autumn 2 –

The Tin Forest

Key Learning

Towards the end of the unit, children will be writing their own version of The Tin Forest. By then children will be able to:

· To understand and use the correct determiners ‘a’ and ‘an’ in sentences

· To identify and use adverbs

· To identify and use a range of prepositions

· To write complex sentences using a range of conjunctions e.g. if, so, although.

· To use the perfect form of verbs

· To identify, generate and effectively use noun phrases. e.g. The blue butterfly with shimmering wings…

· To select vocabulary from a vocabulary banks

Here is a picture of our Talk For Writing story plan of The Tin Forest.

Here are some words that were unfamiliar top the children, so we spent some time exploring them.

We sequenced the story.

We have also been practising our grammar using the 'i model'. The children really enjoy orally rehearsing their sentences using our microphones.

Here are some of the subordnating clauses we wrote.

Mission:  To write a persuasive letter about eating healthy  

 Use intonation, tone and volume

Identify key language features of persuasive text

To explore vocabulary

Plan a persuasive letter

Spring 1

Spring 1 – The Stone Age boy

Key Learning

Towards the end of the unit, children will be writing their own version of The Stone Age boy story. By then children will be able to:

· To use preposition to express time

-To use adverbs to express time

-To use preposition for place

· To recognise word families

· To write complex sentences using a range of conjunctions e.g. if, so, although.

· To identify, generate and effectively use noun phrases. g. The blue butterfly with shimmering wings…

· To select vocabulary from a vocabulary banks

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