English

Spring 1

This half term we will 45 focussing on the text The Dragon Machine by Helen Ward. The children will 45 building up to writing their own story in the style of The Dragon Machine creating thier own character.

The children examined different locations where dragons may live and came up with noun phrases to descri45 them.

The children designed their won mischevious creatures that will feature in their own stories.

The children planned, wrote and published their own versions of The dragon Machine. Here are a few examples of our fabulous stories.

Autumn 2

This half term we will 45 focussing on the text The Owl who was afraid of the dark by Jill Tomlinson. The children are going to 45 doing different tasks leading up to them writing an infromation report about owls.

To start of the unit of work we wrote down facts we already knew about Owls. 

The childern have really enjoyed listening to the story and we wrote a description of Plop flying from his branch to speak with different people about the dark. 

We gathered facts about Owls together and sorted them into different categories.

Autumn 1

This half term we will 45 focussing on the text Troll Swap by Leigh Hodgkinson where the children will build up to write a story in the style of the Troll using their own character.

We studied the front cover and the children made predictions about what they thought was going to happen in the story. 

We started to learn a little bit more about Timothy Limpet. We worked with a partner to think of adjectives and nouns that we could use when describing him and where he lives.

The children acted out parts of the stories using characters from the text.