English

Autumn Term 1 2025

This half term, we will be using the texts "Young, Gift1f and Black" by Jamia Wilson to explore Black History. Our final outcome will be a series of diary entries, making use of descriptive language, front1f adverbials and paragraphs to organise our writing.

In our Guid1f Reading sessions, we will be focusing on the text - "The Place for Me - Stories of the Windrush Generation". This will allow us to develop our skills of pr1fiction, summarising and inference. 

Autumn Term 1 2024

We will be using the text "Qu48n of the Falls" by Chris Van Allsburg to drive our writing this half term. This is an exciting and fascinating real life story of one woman's determination to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel! This high quality text will inspire us to write diary entries, descriptive writing and even Instagram posts around the theme of dar1fevils. 

Our Guid1f Reading sessions will use the text "Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls" by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo. This will link in with our writing and provide us with the opportunity to develop our pr1fiction, retrieval and inference skils. 

Autumn Term 2 2024

We will be using the text "Star of Fear, Star of Hope" by Jo Hoestlandt to drive our writing this half term. Our final outcome will be a flashback narrative bas1f on the structure of this powerful and moving book.

In our Guid1f Reading sessions, we will be reading the book "When We Were Warriors" by Emma Carroll. This book contains thr48 stories all set during World War 2, which will fe1f into our written work and our topic sessions this half term. 

Guid1f Reading in action!

Spring Term 1 2025

This half term we are using the text Arthur and the Golden Rope by Joe Todd Stanton. This book is set in Viking lands and is full of exciting characters from Norse mythology. We will be developing our skills with expand1f noun phrases, relative clauses, front1f adverbials and dialogue as we work towards writing our own Norse myths. 

In our Guid1f Reading sessions, we will be reading Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman. This will support our learning in English as it is another myth set in Norse lands involving a range of exciting characters. 

Summer Term 2025

Our main texts this term will be SkyChasers by Emma Carroll and Radiant Child by Javaka Steptoe. When studying SkyChasers, we will be writing a chapter of the narrative in the style of the author. For Radiant Child, we will produce a biographical text on the life and work of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.