Term 6 (Part 2) - The Piano
Having finished our work on instruction texts, we are now having a look at film narrative. This links to our transition work on "War and Peace", covering the development of the British Empire, as well as the First and Second World Wars.
As part of this, we have started to look at the book "Line of Fire".
Term 6 - There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom
We are starting the term by looking at descriptions and revising persuasion. Afterwards, we'll have a look at instruction texts and finally end the year with a little bit of poetry.
Term 5 - Ravenwood
This term, we will be concentrating on adventure stories and how we can make our writing more interesting. To help us with this, we are using 'Just a dream' by Chris van Allsburg and 'Stanley's Stick' by John Hegley.
Term 4 - Stormbreaker
We have used the book 'Stormbreaker' to work on explanation texts and persuasion. After designing our own new spy gadgets and creating manuals and blue prints for them, we worked in groups to prepare to present and market our gadgets to MI6.
Term 3 - Shadow of the Minotaur
In Term 3, we have been reading the book 'Shadow of the Minotaur'. We used it as a basis for creating information texts on our own made up Greek monsters, before researching and writing about Greek gods and goddesses.
To help us with our writing, we are using an approach called 'Talk for Writing'. Unfortunately, I'm absolutely terrible at drawing, so my first text map made Year 5 laugh at me (thanks, guys). I made a new one after school.