Year 1
Year 2
Autumn Term
WHAT MAKES ME
WHAT HAPPENS
SPECIAL? (Where do I WHEN TOYS COME TO
fit in the school/local
LIFE?
area?)
Focus text – Dogger by
Not Now Bernard –
Shirley Hughes
McKee
Toy Story – Dorling
Peace at last – Murphy Kindersley
Something else –
Stories reflecting
Riddell
children’s own
Boris starts school –
experience
Weston
Recount
Whiffy Wilson – The
Father Christmas –
wolf that wouldn’t
Raymond Briggs
wash
Designing a new
Eleanor’s Eyebrows
sledge for Santa’s
Bailey the Big Bully The delivery
Lonely Beast – Chris
Poetry – rhyming
Judge ( Local Area)
couplets – recite
The Enormous
familiar poems by
Crocodile (Dahl Day)
heart
Labels, lists and
captions
WHO IS YOUR HERO?
HOW DO YOU PUT
(Superheroes and real THE FIRE OUT?
life heroes)
(Bonfire night, Great
Author Study: Mini
Fire of London
Grey
Celebrations linked to
Traction Man, Traction light)
Man and Turbo Dog
Settings to describe
(Superhero stories)
London
Egg drop, The Dish and Non-fiction texts
the Spoon, Three go to Report – assemble
Spring Term
CARNIVAL OF THE
GROWING!
ANIMALS
The enormous turnip
Study mammals
– traditional
found across the
Jack and the
world including
Beanstalk –
domestic farm
traditional
animals and pets,
The Flower
animals found in the
Non-fiction about
Australian outback
growing beans
and African Savanah
The Black Dog –
British, domestic and
Pinfold
exotic birds
Instructions – planting
Fish
seeds
Amphibians
Explanations – draw
Reptiles
pictures to illustrate a
Fossils
simple process and
The Rabbit Problem – add sentences to
Emily Gravett
support the
Book of Beasts –
explanation
poetry
Simple nonchronological report
WE ARE BRITAIN!
LET’S SAIL THE SEVEN
British values
SEAS!
Four nations
Oceans and seas of
Seasides
the world
Mountains and major Sea mythology
hills
The Galapagos Islands
Rivers and canals
and Charles Darwin
Castles
Sea collages
Winnie at the Seaside Traditional tales
Castles by Colin
(creation stories –
Summer Term
DO YOU TRUST THE
WHY DID THEY GO
FAIRYTALE WOLF?
TO THE MOON?
The three little pigs
(Strong
The three little
geography/Science
wolves and the big
links)
bad pig
Non-fiction – a
Pigs might fly –
variety of books
Emmett
Man on the moon –
A house in the woods Bertram
– Inga Moore
We’re off to look for
Mr Wolf’s Pancake –
the aliens –
Jan Fearnley
McNaughton
Mr Wolf and the
How to catch a star three bears – Jan
Jeffers
Fearnley
The Way Back Home
Write a re-telling of a – Jeffers
traditional story
Reading for Book
Reviews
FAMOUS FOR MORE
THAN FIVE MINUTES
Monarchs, explorers,
composers, artists,
activists etc.
Range of non-fiction
texts on famous
people
Recount – write first
person recounts re-
CAN WE BE
WEATHER EXPERTS?
Weather patterns in
the UK
Climate around the
world
Hot places – Africa
The Leopard’s Drum
Cold places –
Antarctica
Sea.
Stories with recurring
literary language
Instructions
information on a
subject, sorting and
categorising
information
Recount the events
Year 3
WHAT WAS LIFE LIKE
IN THE STONE AGE?
Stone Age Boy
Stig of the Dump
Adventure Stories
Recounts – newspaper
stories
Setting description
Character description
Newspaper (recount)
Cave paintings - Art
WHO ARE THE
ROMANS?
Escape from Pompeii
Under the Volcano
Non-chronological
reports
Narrative – eyewitness
accounts
Haiku, kenning, tanka
poetry
Year 4
WHERE DID THE TIME
TRAVELLING CAT
EXPLORE?
Ancient Egyptians
The time-travelling cat
– Jarman
JOURNEY OF A RIVER
The Wind in the
Willows
Explanation,
Information booklet
linked to water/cycle
Thompson
Explanations –
produce a flow chart
Shape poems –
calligrams based on
single words
EXTREME EARTH
The Snow Queen Hans Christian
Andersen
The Wreck of the
Zanzibar – Michael
Morpurgo
Explanation texts
Writing and
performing a play
Poetry – free verse
Kites - DT
myths)
Shape poems
telling historical
events.
Footprints in the
Snow
WOULD OLLIE THE
ORANGUTAN LIKE
HALIFAX?
Rainforests
The Great Kapok Tree
The Tin Forest
Fables – Write a new
fable to convey a
moral
Compare and contrast
our local area with a
rainforest
WHY DO PEOPLE
TRAVEL THE WORLD?
Study of modern
Europe – France,
Germany, Spain, Italy
Meerkat Mail
Postcard
Persuasive letter
writing
Instructions – giving
directions
Limericks
WHO WERE THE
ANGLO-SAXONS?
Beowulf – Morpurgo
Beowulf graphic
versions
Norse Myths
WHAT DID THE
VIKINGS DO FOR US?
How to train your
dragon – Cressida
Cowell
Character study
WHERE DO MY
CLOTHES COME
FROM?
Explore textile
production in the
local area – Black
Dyke Mill,
Queensbury, Dean
Clough
Spinning and
weaving, natural dyes
Traditional tales –
fairy tales
The Smartest Giant in
Town
The Emperor’s New
Clothes
Explanations – create
and use a flowchart
to explain a process
Embroidery – DT
WHERE DO MY
WELLIES TAKE ME?
(locality of school
area through literacy)
Where my willies take
me – Morpurgo
WHAT IS CITY LIFE
LIKE?
Way Home
Study of
Lowry/graffiti art
(Banksy) Wayhome
Year 5
Adventure writing
Instructions
Story settings
Report – write own
report independently
based on notes
gathered from several
sources
or stages of a river
Non-chronological
reports
Journey of a river –
Valerie Bloom (Poem)
Narrative poetry
River art inspired by
Monet
Mountain views
Being by the seaside
Kennings and riddles
Myths, fantasies and
legends
Biography of a dragon
hunter
Instructions for how
to catch a dragon
Non-chronological
report
Journalistic writing
WHAT HAVE THE
GREEKS DONE FOR
US?
THE ADVENTURES OF
ODYSSEUS
(Hugh Lipton)
Aespop’s fables
Greek Myths –
Williams
Percy Jackson and the
lighting thief
Legends, Stories from
other cultures
WHY DO WE WANT
TO CONQUER
MOUNTAINS? (Linked
to Greece)
Information text work
IS SPACE THE FINAL
FRONTIER?
Newspaper report for
Moon Landing
Zathura – Van Alsburg
(characterisation,
dialogue, descriptive
work)
Dr Xargles Book of
Earthlets – Willis
(explanation texts
preparing aliens for
coming to Earth)
DO PEOPLE GET
THEIR DESSERTS?
(Tudor punishment)
MACBETH
(Shakespeare)
The Boy, the Bear, the
Baron, the Bard
Films, Play scripts,
Older literature
Research, develop
ideas, information
booklets
Plot synopsis
Modernised form
Conversations
The Rabbits – Shaun
Oral presentation to
see design for a
perfect rucksack
(inspiration about
how to present their
ideas into a beautiful
scrap book!)
Poems with different
structures – School
poetry e.g. Please
Mrs Butler – Ahlberg
& various list poems,
countdown poem,
conversation, rap,
instruction
Fantastic Mr Fox –
Dahl
Explanation Texts
about capturing
chickens Midnight
Fox – Betsy Byars
IS A GAIMAN A
BRILLIANT WRITER?
Wolves in the wall –
Coraline – Gaiman
Mirrormask – Gaiman
Stardust – Gaiman
Graveyard Book
Play texts
City Fox
Fact files about Lowry
Debate – Is graffiti
art?
Time lines –
Manchester
Information page
about development
of the Salford Quays
WHY DO PEOPLE
VISIT THE LAKE
DISTRICT? (Linked to
school trip)
Snow Poetry linked to
the mountains
Lucy Gray –
Wordsworth
Reports, discussion
and debate about
putting motorway
through Keswick
Water cycle
Tan (linked to the
Spartans etc)
Year 6
A VICTORIAN
LOCALITY STUDY
Street child – (Berlie
Dohety)
Descriptions of
characters, flashbacks
Oliver Twist
Black Dyke Mill,
Queensbury – John
Foster
History
Science
Geography
PSHCE
Literacy
HOW WAS MANCHESTER AFFECTED BY WWII?
Goodnight Mr Tom- Magorium
Formal/Informal
BBC broadcast – RP
(writing a broadcast about preparing for war)
News reports – Pathe news
Propaganda posters (audience)
Letters from evacuees
War boy – Foreman (a British child’s
perspective of WWII)
The Harmonica – Johnston (Picture book about
life in the concentration camp)
Rose Blanche – Innocenti (a picture book about
a German child’s perspective)
Monolouge
Iambic Pentameter
Diary
Obituary
IS SPANISH LIFE SO
DIFFERENT TO OURS?
Toro Toro – Morpurgo
Discussion and
Debates – Is bull
fighting
entertainment?
Posters
Settings, atmosphere
WHERE ON EARTH
ARE WE?!
Comparing people
and places focusing
on the UK compared
to Mexico, the Grand
Canyon, Amazon
Basin, Peruvian Andes
and Alps.
Kensuke’s Kingdom
London Eye Mystery
Discussion texts
Narrative workshop
Debating skills
Tales told in Tents
I AM WHAT I AM!
Wonder – R.J Palacio
365 Days of Wonder
Viewpoints
Curse of the Night
Wolf – Steward &
Riddell (opening
chapter)
Transformation
stories
Write persuasively