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.

Summer Term

This term we will be reading a number of books all based around our topic of ‘Queen Elizabeth II’. We will be starting off with the story ‘Katie goes to London’. This fantastic book tells the adventures of Katie and her younger brother in London. As they explore all the sights we will be paying special attention to Buckingham Palace and The Tower of London. This story will inspire us to write postcards. Some other stories we will be exploring this term include; The Queen’s Knickers, The Queens Handbag, The Queen’s Hat and Paddington in London.

Throughout our English lessons we will build up to our final pieces of writing. These writing outcomes will include, descriptive writing, letter writing, information texts, postcards, imaginative writing and poetry.

In Year One we will be working extremely hard this term to implement and apply all the wonderful skills we have learnt throughout the year including using capital letters and full stops accurately, question marks and exclamation marks, the conjunction ‘and’ to join our sentences, and of course the wow vocabulary we work so very hard on!

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