Spring Term - Street Detectives
English links to our our local area project, Street Detectives where we learn about Bridport, the local area and the importance of the rope industry.
Books read in this topic:
- Voices in the Park, by Anthony Browne
- Moon Rope by Lois Ehlert
- Belonging by Jeannie Baker
Through these texts, this term children have been learning to:
- Develop their poetry.
- Use a dictionary.
- Understand how illustrations help to convey the mood of a story.
- Explain the feelings of characters.
- Use adverbs and synonyms to make their writing more interesting.
- Write a folk tale with a meaning.
- Understand how they can describe changes in their own environment.
Autumn Term - Land Ahoy
English links to our topic Land Ahoy where we learn about pirates, explorers and sea rescues.
Books read in this topic:
- How Pirates Really Work by Alan Snow
- The Adventures of Sinbad the Sailor by Katie Daynes.
- The Pirates Next Door by Jonny Duddle
- Traction Man is here by Mini Grey – link to materials
- Non Fiction
- Lifeboat Crew (People Who Help Us) by Nancy Dickmann
- Captain Cook by Rebecca Levene
- Grace Darling by Anita Ganeri
Through these texts, this term children have been learning to:
- Write a story using a picture as a stimulus, include time adverbials and noun phrases.
- Challenge themselves to include expanded noun phrases.
- Produce a fact file about Captain Cook, using their knowledge of, oceans, continents and his voyages.
- Know the difference between statements, questions and commands.
- Write letters to a pirate and produced a newspaper report about pirates.
- Write a recount about Grace Darling and the rescue of survivors from the wreck of the Forfarshire.
- Write an adventure story, based upon ‘Traction Man’.
Autumn Term - Bounce
English links to our Bounce topic about keeping healthy and how different types of balls can be used.
Books read in this topic
- Traditional Tale: The Frog Prince by Susannah Davidson
- Ready Steady Mo! by Mo Farah
- The Frog Olympics by Brian Moses.
- Sports Day by Mick Inkpen & Nick Butterworth.
- Poems about balls and sport.
Through these books and our Bounce topic texts children have:
- Learnt how to write a list poem about bouncing.
- Started to use noun phrases to enhance their narrative descriptions.
- Learnt to write instructions of how to make a paper ball.
- Learnt the difference between the different tenses; past, present and future.
- Sequenced a story learnt to describe a character so they could write a traditional tale.
- Learnt how to write information texts: about a pet and significant individuals.
- Planned, directed and written a recount about a sporting event.