Ribbleton Avenue Methodist Junior School
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English
In the teaching of English, each year group uses a range of high quality texts, films, pictures and other stimuli to engage children in their learning. These stimuli may be used for up to a half term, from which a broad range of genre and text-types can be covered. Where these texts link to a topic, the English is taught as part of the topic.
For Example:
In Year 3-6 during Cycle A, the whole school will be looking at the topic of War (WW2 in Y3/4 and WW1 in Y5/6).
During these English units, the classes will look at the following text types:
| Autumn 2 |
Year 3 | Unit Title – Air raid Narrative |
Unit Title – Evacuee diaries | |
Unit Title – Shape poems | |
Year 4 | Unit Title – The Piano (WWII) Biography |
Unit Title – Poem on a Theme (WWII) | |
Year 5 | Unit Title – Under Attack based on Stay Where You Are Then Leave Story set in a historical setting
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Unit Title – Under Attack based on Stay Where You Are Then Leave Recount | |
Unit Title – Under Attack based on Where the Poppies Grow Visual poetry (blackout poetry)
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Year 6 | Unit Title – Under Attack - WW1/Narrative with Historical Setting
(Ghost Soldier)
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This ensures that there is continued progression through the topic themes and whilst the learning topic is unique to school, the curriculum is built around the National Curriculum Objectives.
Example from Year 3 Unit:
Unit Title – World War 2 – Narrative text Key Text – Air raid Duration – 3 weeks Unit Outcome – To write a short story based on a topic
Key Objectives –
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Writing –
| Unit Title –World war 2- Non-fiction Key Text – Evacuee diaries Duration – 3 weeks Unit Outcome – To write a diary as an evacuee
Key Objectives –
Reading –
Writing –
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Unit Title – World War 2 –poetry Key Text – Shape poems Duration – 2 weeks Unit Outcome – To create a share poem
Key Objectives –
Reading –
Writing –
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Where it does not link, the English forms a mini-topic of its own, running alongside the class topic. Grammar and punctuation are taught through and outside of the texts as a regular part of the weekly planning.
Year 3 objectives:
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To support this, we use exciting resources from Grammarsaurus to enhance the teaching and the skills are embedded within the topic and planned writing opportunities.