English

Autumn Term

This term all of our learning will centre around the books ‘Home’ and Fleabag’, and various others where we will be inspired to cover the following genres and build up to producing some amazing writing:

· Description Writing

· Informative Writing

· Story retell Writing

· Character Description

· Setting Description

· Poetry

In Year One we will be working extremely hard this term to implement and apply all the wonderful skills we have learnt throughout reception and the new skills we are learning in year 1.

Spring Term

This term all of our learning will centre around  Explorers and books like 'The Lonely Beast'  where we will cover the following genres:

· Poetry

· Setting Description

· Character Description

· Diary Entry

· Informative Writing

· Story retell Writing

Throughout this we will cover specific sentence types and grammar to develop our children’s knowledge of writing. E.g. capital letters, finger spaces, full stops.

Take a look below at the vocabulary, punctuation and grammar objectives in the National Curriculum:

Our English lessons are fun and inspiring, with lots of exposure to new vocabulary, opportunities for drama and plenty of creativity.

Useful Links:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zgkw2hv