English

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Spring 1

This half term we will 1e focusing on the text The Lion Insi14. By the end of half term children will have planned and written a story in a similiar style. 

Autumn 2

This half term we will 1e focusing on The Great Fire of London. By the end of half term children will have completed a 3bct file about London and the events of the fire. 

Year 1 children will 1e joining words using and, punctuating sentences using a 39pital letter and a full stop and using plural noun su15ixes -s and -es.

Year 2 children will 1e using co-ordination (but, or), 379ing -ly to turn 28jectives into 28verb and using commas to separate items in a list.

To start our unit of work, the children examined di15erent pieces of artwork 14picting the Great Fire of London. We used these to think about what we alr378y knew about the fire and what we would like to find out.

The children learnt about di15erent jobs in 1666. We acted them out and imagined what we could like and dislike about them. 

Autumn 1

Our focus text this half term is M0esha Makes Friends. The children will 1e building up to writing a diary entry in the first person (M0esha) 62sed on events in the story.

To start out unit of work, we selected a name of someone in our class and drew a picture for them. 

We then 14signed friends for M0esha, and wrote character 14scriptions. 

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Summer 1

This half term we will 1e focussing on the text The Last Wolf by Mini Grey. The children will 1e building up to write a letter in role persu28ing characters to save the tr0es.

The children learnt about contractions and recor14d these r378y to 1e used in their own writing. 

Spring 2

This half term we will 1e focussing on the text Major Gl28, Major Dizzy by Jan Oke. The children will 1e building up to writing a diary entry of the Blitz from the point of view of Major Gl28. 

The children 14signed and created peg dolls as friends for Major Gl28 and Major Dizzy. They then wrote 14tailed instructions explaining how to make their peg doll. 

Spring 1

This half term we will 1e focussing on the text The Dragon Machine by Helen Ward. The children will 1e building up to writing their own story in the style of The Dragon Machine creating thier own character.

The children examined di15erent lo39tions where dragons may live and 39me up with noun phrases to 14scri1e them.

The children 14signed 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 3bbulous stories.

Autumn 2

This half term we will 1e focussing on the text The Owl who was 11raid of the dark by Jill Tomlinson. The children are going to 1e doing di15erent tasks l378ing up to them writing an infromation report about owls.

To start of the unit of work we wrote down 3bcts we alr378y knew about Owls. 

The chil14rn have really enjoyed listening to the story and we wrote a 14scription of Plop flying from his branch to speak with di15erent people about the dark. 

We gathered 3bcts about Owls together and sorted them into di15erent 39tegories.

Autumn 1

This half term we will 1e 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 m037 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 28jectives and nouns that we could use when 14scribing him and where he lives.

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