English
The English Curriculum Co-Ordinators are Miss Ellison & Miss Wilson
English is taught daily throughout school following the National Curriculum Programme of Study as well as the Lancashire Programme of Study. As a school, we use Wordsmith as an additional resource when planning, which allows the children to share a range of online texts in school which can also be allocated and read at home.
In English, we ensure that a broad range of objectives are covered and that key skills are studied including: writing: transcription, writing: composition, writing: vocabulary, spelling and grammar, reading: word reading and reading: comprehension.
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Year Group |
Autumn Term |
Spring Term |
Summer Term |
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EYFS |
- All about me - Scarecrow Wedding - Christmas Story - Stick Man - Gunpowder Plot - Remembrance Day
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Year 1 |
Fiction Unit – ‘Guess What?’ (Wordsmith) (3 main texts: Who’s our new teacher? Class Two at the Zoo and Aargh Spider!) Poetry – Senses, rhyme and patterns Non-Fiction – ‘Who Lives Here?’ (Wordsmith) (Diary entry)
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Fiction Unit – Fairy tales, traditional tales and alternative versions Word Detectives – comprehension and grammar skills Poetry – Performing and writing own versions Non-Fiction – ‘All About Elephants’ (Wordsmith) Non-Chronological report |
Fiction – ‘Fantastic Voyages’ (2 main texts: Dougal’s Deep Sea Diary and Man on the Moon) (Wordsmith) Storytellers/Live Unit – Traditional Tales from India (Wordsmith) Non-Fiction – ‘Top Jobs’ (Wordsmith)
Poetry – ‘Growing Up’ (Wordsmith) |
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Year 2 |
Fiction – The Tiger Who Came for Tea and Traction Man Poetry – Pattern, Rhyme and Rhythm (Wordsmith) Fiction – What would you do? (Wordsmith) Non-Fiction – All About Orang-utans (Wordsmith) Writing explanation text |
Fiction Unit – A Twist in the Tale (Wordsmith) Poetry – A Closer Look (Wordsmith) Grammar Detective Non-Fiction – Does Chocolate Grow on trees? (Wordsmith) Writing non-chronological report |
Fiction – Katie Morag Live Unit – Act It Out (Wordsmith) Poetry – Silly Stuff (Wordsmith)
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Year 3 |
Live Unit – Autobiographies Non-fiction Unit – Was Tutankhamun killed? (Wordsmith) Explanation text (report), diary entry, instructions Fiction – George’s Marvellous Medicine - Dairy entry, recipe, instructions, persuasive advert Poetry – Shape poems/Calligrams |
Non-fiction – Non-chronological reports ‘Where’s the best place to live?’ (Wordsmith) Fiction – Ottoline and the Yellow Cat (Wordsmith) Mystery Stories Performance Poetry |
Non-Fiction – Newspaper report ‘Shocking Styles’ (Wordsmith) Live Unit – Chat Show Challenge Fiction – Legends (Wordsmith) |
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Year 4 |
Non-Fiction – Biography ‘Space Explorers Fiction – Christophe’s Story (Wordsmith) Fiction – Spooky Stories (Wordsmith) Poetry – Creating Images (Wordsmith) |
Fiction – Spiderwick Chronicles (Wordsmith) Poetry – Exploring Poetic Form (Wordsmith) Non-Fiction – Newspaper Writing Word Detectives (Wordsmith) |
Non-Fiction – Shang Dynasty – Non-chronological reports (Wordsmith) Fiction – The Iron Man (Wordsmith) Non-Fiction – ‘The Grand Tour’ - Virtual Tours (Wordsmith) Poetry – Exploring Poetic Language (Wordsmith) |
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Year 5 |
Poetry Unit – Poets’ Voices (Wordsmith) Fiction – Friend or Foe Narrative (Wordsmith) Non-Fiction – Animals on the Move - Chronological report (Wordsmith) Live Unit – Ultimate Rap – Composing and performing raps (Wordsmith) |
Poetry – Tell Me A Story – Autobiographical Narrative (Wordsmith) Fiction – Oranges in No Man’s Land (Wordsmith) – Narrative Word Detectives (Wordsmith) Non-Fiction – The Museum of Fun – Presenting adverts (Wordsmith) |
Poetry – Compare and Perform- Narrative poem (Wordsmith) Fiction – Greek Myths (Wordsmith) Writing own myths Non-Fiction – Ultimate Explorers (Wordsmith) – persuasive advert Live Unit – Pitch It! (Wordsmith) |
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Year 6 |
Non-Fiction – Pompeii (Wordsmith) Diary entry, newspaper report, narrative Poetry – World War Poetry Fiction – The Iron Woman – Interview Transcript Fiction – Scrooge – Play script Live Unit – letters of complaint |
Fiction – Funny, Frightening, Fantastic (Wordsmith) Narrative Fiction – The Hobbit Narrative, diary entry, play script Non-Fiction – Inventions (Wordsmith) Newspaper report Live Unit – The Great Debate Persuasive writing |
Poetry – The Jabberwocky Fiction – Harry Potter Letter writing, narrative, recipe Non-Fiction – What is Blood For? (Wordsmith) Non-Chronological report |
