Texts and Writing Outcomes
Below are the topics, key texts and writing outcomes:
Year 1 | Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
Topic | Great Fire of London | Pirates/Explorers | Medicine | Normans | The Fishing Industry | Victorians |
Writing Outcomes | Recount
Sequencing events of Great Fire of London
Captions for pictures of landmarks
Shared writing – directions from one landmark to another | Recount of trip to Time and Tide
Character description – pirates
Labelling treasure map
Wanted poster | Potions
Persuasive poster
Safety posters
Diary – Florence Nightingale | Castle labelling
Recount - trip to Norwich Castle
Instructions – how to be a knight
How to defend a castle | Labelling a seaside
Would you want to be a fisherman?
Recount of trip to Maritime Museum
| Comparing Victorian schooling/seaside holidays – then and now
A day in the life...(theme day)
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Year 2 | Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
Topics | Great Fire of London | Pirates/Explorers | Medicine | Normans | The Fishing Industry | Victorians |
Key Texts | Katie in London by James Mayhew
The Bakers Boy and the Great Fire of London
Non-fiction texts – Great Fire of London by Emma Adams | The Pirate Cruncher by Johnny Duddle
The Pirates Next Door by Johnny Duddle
| George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
Non-fiction – medicine | Rapunzel – Traditional Tale
Marine life poetry week (competition)
Norman the Norman from Normandy.
Zog by Julia Donaldson
Non-fiction – Castles | Non-fiction – fishing industry (Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth)
The Light House Keepers Lunch
Tiddler | You wouldn’t want to be a Victorian School Child |
Class Reader | James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl | The Christmasaurus by Tom Fletcher | Picture books from reading spine. | Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown The Hodgeheg by Dick-King Smith | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl | The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy |
Writing Outcomes | Character description – 1 week (Katie London)
Narrative – retelling – 1 week (Katie London)
Fact File – 1 week (Great Fire)
Diary – 1 week (Great Fire)
Poetry – 1 week (Great Fire Acrostics) National Poetry Day
Narrative – 2 weeks (puppet show and own version of story) | Letter - 1 week (Pirate Cruncher to warn sailors about the monster)
Description – character – (Jim Lad) 1 week
Instructions (to find treasure) - 1 week
Pirate poetry (own version of rhyming poem) – 1 week
Retelling - 1 week
| Description of Grandma – 1 week
Instructions – medicine making - 1 week
Narrative - new version of a paragraph - 1 week
Persuasive text – buy my medicine - 1 week
Non-fiction report - 1 week | Rapunzel – retelling – 1 week
Marine poetry – 1 week
Description – 1 week
Non-chronological text – Normans/castles - 1 week
Zog – Narrative -2 weeks | Then and now – fishing industry - 1 week
Diary – lighthouse keeper - 1 week
Tiddler – narrative-alternative ending - 2 weeks
| Letter - 1week
Non-chronological report - 1 week
Recount – A day in the life...- 1 week
Poetry – seaside - 1 week
Instructions - 1 week |
Year 3 | Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
Topics | Heroes | Roman Britain | Tudors | Explorers | Ancient Greece | Anglo-Saxons
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Key Texts
| Women who Changed the World
Wonders of the World
Little Wolf’s Book of Badness
| Roman Britain (I was there) Boudica’s Army.
Roman Diary: The Journal of Iliona
Non-fiction – Celts
| Terrible Tudors – Horrible Histories
The Thief, The Fool and The Big Fat King
| The Explorer – Katherine Rundel
I Wonder Why…
Flotsam
Manfish – Jacque Cousteau
| Greek myths –
Theseus and the Minotaur; Daedalus and Icarus; Trojan Horse | What they don’t tell you about Anglo-Saxons
The King Who Threw Away His Throne |
Class Reader | The Twits by Roald Dahl | Roman Diary- The Journal of Iliona. | Bear Grylls adventure | The Aboniables |
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Writing Outcomes | Fact files - 1 week
Setting description – wonders of the world - 1 week
Letter from the wolf – 1 week
Retelling – The Wolf’s perspective - 2 weeks
Character description – 1 week
Diary – 1 week | Character Description – 1 week
Letter from Kassy to her grandmother – 1 week
Diary entry - 1 week
Fact Files – Celts and Romans – 1 week
Narrative – 2 weeks | Non-chronological report – Tudors - 1 week
Performance poetry – Henry VIII and his wives - 1 week
Newspaper report- Crime/punishment- 1 week
Narrative - 2 weeks
| Narrative – adventure story - 2 weeks
Non-chronological report - 1 week
Setting description - 1 week
| Instructions – how to kill a minotaur - 1 week
Greek myth - 2 weeks
Character description – mythical creature - 1 week | Narrative – a tale of invasion- 2 weeks
Persuasion – Don't go back in time to live like an Anglo-Saxon - 1 week
Explanation – comparison – then/now - 1 week
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Year 4 | Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
Topics | Witches | Vikings | Stone Age – Iron Age | Stone Age – Iron Age | Ancient Egypt | Romans |
Key Texts | The Magic Thief (class reader)
Poetry
Witches in Scotland (non-fiction)
Potion Commotion
| Odd and the Frost Giants
| Your Growling Guts and Dynamic Digestion
Stone Age Boy
| Stone Age Tablet
The History Detective Investigates: Stone Age to Iron Age | The Time Travelling Cat
So you think you’ve got it bad – a kids life in Ancient Egypt
| Escape from Pompeii
Pirates of Pompeii/Secrets of Vesuvius – Caroline Lawrence
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Class Reader | The Magic Thief | How To Train Your Dragon | The 1000 Year Old Boy | The Wild Way Home | Secrets of a Sun King | The Secrets of Vesuvius |
Writing Outcomes | Instructions for own potion -1 week
Poem – describing the witch - 1 week
Setting description based on an imaginary setting – 1 week
Information text about Scotland - non chronological report - 1 week
| Explanation text - 1 week
Setting description - 1 week
Narrative - 2 weeks
Diary - recounting a day in the life of a Viking Warrior - 1 week
Instructions - 1 week
| Information text - 1 week
Letter - 1 week
Balanced argument – 1 week
Character description - 1 week
Diary - 1 week | Newspaper report - 1 week
Narrative - 2 weeks
Explanation text - 1 week
Non chronological report – Bristish Isles - 1 week
| Setting and character description- 1 week
Narrative – mystery - 2 weeks
Letter - 1 week
Explanation text - 1 week
Instructions - 1 week | Pompeii diary – 1 week
Newspaper - 1 week
Letter- persuasion - 1 week
Information text - 1 week
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Year 5 | Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
Topics | Shakespeare | Human Chronology | Anglo-Saxons | Mayans | Inventors | Ancient China |
Key Texts | The Tempest | Cool – Michael Morpurgo
| Beowulf | Mayan myth
History for Kids: Incan Empire
| Non-Fiction texts based around inventors | The Firework Maker's Daughter |
Class Reader | The Iron Man (5P) A Year to Remember (5J)
| When Jessie came across the Sea (5J) and Coming to England (5J) Aunt Severe and the Dragons (5P) | Fantastic Mr Fox Roald Dahl (5P)
Anglo- Saxon boy (5J) | Cosmic (5P) |
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Writing Outcomes | Character Description - 1 week
Diary – 1 week
Review - 1 week
Playscript – 2 weeks
| Grammar Focus Week 1 Newspaper Article – 2/3 weeks
Letter - 1 week
Narrative - 2 weeks
Poem (Christmas Themed) - 1 week | Week 1 (2 days) Dictionary skills and grammar. Setting Description and Character Description – 2 weeks
Explanation Text - 1 week Cohesive devices
Balanced Argument - 1 week
Non-Chronological Report - 1 week
| Myth - 2 weeks Homophones. Grammar – nouns.
Poetry - week Competition Marine Theme.
Persuasion – 1 week
Narrative 2 weeks | Autobiography - 1 week
Biography - 1 week
Comparison (2 inventors) - 1 week
Instructions - 1 week
Persuasive Advert – 1 week | Setting Description - 1 week
Narrative - 2 weeks
Newspaper – 1 week
Playscript - 2 weeks |
Year 6 | Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
Topics | Fallen Fields | Frozen Kingdom | Revolution | WW2 | Cross-Curricular | ID |
Key Texts | War Horse
| Shackleton’s Journey
| A Monster Calls
| Good Night Mr Tom
| Good Night Mr Tom | Who Let the Gods out
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Class Reader | Holes | The Ice Garden | The Ice Garden | My Secret War Diary – Flossie Albright | Can you see me? | Fireweed |
Writing Outcomes | Cold write using WW1 image
Diary
Character/setting description (short)
Explanation – what were the causes of WW1
| Narrative - adventure
Farewell letter
Christmas poem | Setting description
Play script
Newspaper
| Poetry week
Non-chron - evacuation procedures
Newspaper
Dialogue extract
Recount
| Narrative – 2 weeks (Goodnight Mr Tom continued)
Persuasive leaflet
Instructions | Balanced argument
Letter
Report
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