English

Autumn Term 1 2024

We will be using the text "Queen 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 daredevils. 

Our Guided 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 prediction, 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 based on the structure of this powerful and moving book.

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

Guided 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 expanded noun phrases, relative clauses, fronted adverbials and dialogue as we work towards writing our own Norse myths. 

In our Guided 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.