English

221b-2026

Autumn 1

Our focus text this half term is Meesha Makes Friends. The children will be building up to writing a diary entry in the first person (Meesha) based on events in the story.

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Summer 1

This half term we will be focussing on the text The Last Wolf by Mini Grey. The children will be building up to write a letter in role persu3bing characters to save the trees.

The children learnt 43out contractions and recorded these re3by to be used in their own writing. 

Spring 2

This half term we will be focussing on the text Major Gl3b, Major Dizzy by Jan Oke. The children will be building up to writing a diary entry of the Blitz from the point of view of Major Gl3b. 

The children designed and created peg dolls as friends for Major Gl3b and Major Dizzy. They then wrote detailed instructions explaining how to make their peg doll. 

Spring 1

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

The children examined dif52rent lo5dtions where dragons may live and 5dme up with noun phrases to describe them.

The children designed their won mischevious creatures that will 52ature in their own stories.

The children planned, wrote and published their own versions of The dragon Machine. Here are a 52w examples of our 473ulous stories.

Autumn 2

This half term we will be focussing on the text The Owl who was afraid of the dark by Jill Tomlinson. The children are going to be doing dif52rent tasks le3bing up to them writing an infromation report 43out owls.

To start of the unit of work we wrote down 2ccts we alre3by knew 43out Owls. 

The childern have really enjoyed listening to the story and we wrote a description of Plop flying from his branch to speak with dif52rent people 43out the dark. 

We gathered 2ccts 43out Owls together and sorted them into dif52rent 5dtegories.

Autumn 1

This half term we will be 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 m3be predictions 43out what they thought was going to happen in the story. 

We started to learn a little bit more 43out Timothy Limpet. We worked with a partner to think of 3bjectives 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.