Poetry –using
the senses
Autumn
Holy Trinity Academy - English Curriculum
Year 1
Stories with
Traditional and Labels, lists and
familiar settings
Fairy tales
captions
Harvest
History of the
school -Victorians
Stories from a
range of
cultures
Information texts
Stories about
fantasy worlds
Traditional
Stories
Poetry –Pattern
and rhyme
Recount
Poems on a
theme
Summer
Spring
Instructions
Knights and Princesses
Castles –visit to
Farleigh Hungerford
Genres in bold print are featured in the Y1 Literacy planning for
Hamilton Trust.
The genres have been put into terms, but these are only suggestions. A particular unit may
work better in tandem with science, history or geography in a different term.
Current provision 2013
Stories with familiar settings
Stories from a range of cultures
Traditional and fairy stories Traditional
tales and fairy stories (key stories)
New National Curriculum –
suggested texts
The Owl who was afraid of the
dark –Jill Tomlinson
Storymaking
Harry and the Bucketful of
Dinosaurs,
Storymaking
Castles and knights
The Kiss that Missed
Stories about fantasy/imaginary worlds
Labels lists and captions
Instructions
Recount (dictionary)
Recount (fact and fiction)
Information texts
Using the senses Poetry
Rhyme and pattern
Poetry on a theme
Where the wild things are –
Maurice Sendak
storymaking
Castles
History of the school -Victorians
dinosaurs
Patterns on a
page
Instructions
Traditional
Stories
Different
stories by the
same author
Explanations
Really Looking or
Silly Stuff
Autumn
Year 2
Stories with
familiar settings
Summer
Spring
Information
Texts
Extended
Nonstories/significant chronological
authors
reports
Traditional poetry
Genres in bold print are featured in the Y2 Literacy planning for
Hamilton Trust.
The genres have been put into terms, but these are only suggestions. A particular unit may
work better in tandem with science, history or geography in a different term.
Year 2
New National Curriculum
Stories with familiar settings
Traditional tales and fairy stories
Different stories by the same author
Extended stories by significant authors.
George’s Marvellous Medicine –Roald Dahl
Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood
Hansel and Gretel (Anthony Browne)
Anthony Browne (Gorilla, Piggybook, Zoo, The
Tunnel)
Roald Dahl
Horrid Henry –Francesca Simon
Storymaking
The Great Fire of London –Samuel Pepys
Local history/geography –Calne
The Great Fire of London
Bonfire Night (fireworks)
Avebury
Instructions writing for different
purposes
Explanations
Reports
Information texts
Patterns on a page
Really looking
Silly Stuff
Traditional Poems –Owl and the Pussycat (Lear)
Choose from Really Looking or Silly Stuff
Year 3
Stories with
familiar settings
Poems to
perform
Instructions
Biography
Information
Texts
Adventure and
Mystery
Dialogue and Plays
Reports
Myths and
Legends
Language Play or Shape poems and
Calligrams
Traditional
poetry
Summer
Spring
Autumn
Finding out about an
author in detail and
writing to her/him
Genres in bold print are featured in the Y3 Literacy planning for
Hamilton Trust.
The genres have been put into terms, but these are only suggestions. A particular unit may
work better in tandem with science, history or geography in a different term.
Year 3
Stories with familiar settings
Myths, legends, fables and traditional tales
Adventure and mystery
Authors and letters
Dialogue and Plays (playscripts)
Instructions
Reports
Information texts
Poems to perform
Shape poems and calligrams
Language play
New National Curriculum – suggested
texts
Romulus and Remus, Blodin the
Beast – Michael Morpurgo
Themes –good overcoming evil, use
of magical devices in fairy stories and
folk tales.
Caroline Lawrence
David Walliams, Roald Dahl, etc
School visit to Chedworth, Roman
Baths
Dictionaries
Traditional Poems –Robert Louis
Stevenson
Year 4
Stories with
historical settings
Recount
Narrative:
stories set in
imaginary worlds
Information
Texts
Stories from
other cultures
Explanations
Poetry: exploring
form
Stories which
raise
issues/dilemmas
Traditional
poetry
additional unit
Persuasive texts
Summer
Spring
Autumn
Creating images
Genres in bold print are featured in the Y4 Literacy planning for Hamilton
Trust.
The genres have been put into terms, but these are only suggestions. A particular unit may work
better in tandem with science, history or geography in a different term.
Year 4
Stories from a range of cultures
Stories about fantasy/imaginary worlds
Stories with historic settings
Issues and dilemmas
New National Curriculum –suggested texts
Themes –good overcoming evil, use of
magical devices in fairy stories and folk
tales.
Playscripts
Beowulf, Knight and the Squire, Kensuke’s
Kingdom, Way Home
Dear Olly –Michael Morpurgo
Danny the Champion of the World
Recounts
Explanations
Persuasive texts
Information texts
Residential to Oxenwood
Until I met Dudley- McGough/Riddell
Vikings
Creating images
Exploring form
Traditional poetry (additional poetry unit)
Poetry -Kennings
Autobiography/Biography Instructions
Finding out about an author in
detail( and writing to her/him)
Poetic
style
Reports/explanations Traditional stories,
fables, myths and
legends
Stories from
other
cultures
Classic
narrative
poetry
Persuasive writing
Choral and
performance
Playscripts
Classic fiction
Summer
Spring
Autumn
Year 5
Classic novels and
stories by significant
authors
Genres in bold print are featured in the Y5 Literacy planning for
Hamilton Trust.
The genres have been put into terms, but these are only suggestions. A particular unit may
work better in tandem with science, history or geography in a different term.
Year 5
Stories from a range of cultures
Traditional stories, fables, myths and
legends
Novels and stories by significant authors
Film narrative
Dramatic conventions
New National Curriculum –
suggested texts
King Arthur
Robin Hood
Grimm Tales for young and old
(Phillip Pullman
Classic novels –Jungle Book, Just so
stories (Rudyard Kipling)
Treasure Island (Robert Louis
Stevenson) The Lion, the witch and
the Wardrobe.
Playscripts and drama –The Tempest
/Macbeth (Shakespeare)
Instructions
Persuasive texts
Reports/explanations
Biography
Poetic style
Classic and narrative poetry
Choral and performance
Tudor exploration
CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien (World War I)
Isaac Newton
The Listeners (Walter De La Mare)
Walrus and the Carpenter, Hillaire
Belloc
Summer
Spring
Autumn
Year 6
Fiction genres
-link to WW2
Journalistic
writing inc.
debates, public
speaking and
performance
Wilberforce
Formal/impersonal
writing
Autobiography/Biography Arguments
Winston Churchill
Charles Dickens
Horatio Nelson
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Power of
imageryWar
Poetry
Myths, legends,
traditional stories
Modern Fiction
Classic
poetry
Fiction from our
literary heritage
Dickens
Choral and
Playscripts
performance/Finding
a Voice
Macbeth/
Summer
production
The genres have been put into terms, but these are only suggestions. A particular unit may
work better in tandem with science, history or geography in a different term.
Year 6 current provision
New Curriculum suggested texts
Fiction genres
Linked to WW2 – Carrie’s War,
Goodnight Mr Tom, War Horse, etc
Extending narrative
Authors and texts
Short Stories with flashbacks
Fiction from our literary heritage –
Oliver Twist, David Copperfield,
Biography & Autobiography
Journalistic writing
Arguments
Formal/impersonal writing
Power of imagery
Finding a voice
Revision
Modern fiction –Skellig (David
Almond), Feather Boy (Nicky Singer)
Dickens, Nelson, Churchill, IKB
War Poetry – Sassoon, Owen, Yeats,
etc
Public speaking, performance and
debate – William Wilberforce and the
abolition of slavery
Classic poetry