English

     Autumn 1

The Piano

The Piano is a flashback narrative based on short animation by Aidan Gibbons.

Studying the film and the themes that run through short clip generates some fantastic speaking and listening opportunities as well as some amazing writing.

The children got a chance to listen to the music to see how it made them feel. they linked it to the past and remembered what happened. Then they listened to the music with the lonely man to began to understand his feelings and memories.

Whilst thoughts rushed swiftly through his mind, the lonesome man tapped his fingers gently on each key. Soothingly, the music reminded him of his past memories however unfortunately the music only made him remember the sombre, sad and depressing memories. Sorrow ran through him.

Autumn 1 - Flashbacks and Biographies

Year 6 are studying novels based on the Titanic and using the short animation of The Piano to inspire their own flashback writing.

We are also studying biographies this half term.  We will be immersing ourselves in many different biographies and analysing the features of them to support our own writing.  One of the biographies we use is Walt Disney's.  Her is a link where you can find an online version:

https://www.biography.com/business-figure/walt-disney

Autumn 2

This term, the children will be looking at The Wizard of Oz.

The children will be focusing on the vocabulary to start with and look at why the author has chosen to use the word below:

Rusty looking cookstove

Lumber

Cellar

Cyclone

Whirlwinds arose

Kansas prairies

Garret

Midst.

The children have been enjoying small clips of the film as well as reading extarct from the book to gain a better understanding of the choice of vocabualry the autor has used. The children have then wrote up a setting description using photos and own vocabulary.

              The Cyclone scene ( Plese click on the picture below to watch the twister scene)

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