Novel

• Shared reading of Skellig
• Analysing text at sentence and word level

Poetry

• Exploring poetry from different cultures

Play

• ‘Our Day Out’
• Play conventions
• Director’s intentions and the effect of it on the audience.

Non-Fiction Writing

• Identifying audiences and types of texts
• Practice writing for different audience and purpose

Story Writing

• Understanding the elements of different genres of writing.

Fairy Tales

• Reading popular children’s fairy tales
• Understanding fairy tales structure and conventions.

Autumn Term

Spring Term

Summer Term

War Poetry

• Exploring poetry from WWI/WWII.

Play: Romeo & Juliet
Understanding play conventions

• Director’s intentions and the effect of it on the audience.

Novel: Stone Cold
A unit dedicated to buildings, poems and people of London

• Exploring themes of homelessness and friendship between characters.

• Analysing language at word level.

Myths & Legends
Understanding myths and legends

• Creating and writing our own myths and legends

Gothic Stories

• Understanding genre conventions

• Creating and writing own gothic stories.

Modern London

A unit dedicated to buildings, poems and people of London

• Analyse language which described it.

• Create our own futuristic London