Year 5 English
Autumn
To begin the year, Year 5 will be revising key grammar skills from Year 4. We will be reading the Jules Verne story Journey to the Centre of the Earth and using it to enhance the class' inference when reading. The children will be planning and writing their own "quest stories" based on this. We will also be learning and reciting a poem for National Poetry Day.
After half term, we will be reading the The Promise by Nicola Davies. This has a strong environmental message. The class will beginning to learn about relative clause, modal verbs and where to position commas in sentences with more than one clause. They will plan and write their own "wishing story" based on this book and thinking about their impact on the natural world.
Spring
In Term 3, Year 5 will be studying the legend of Beowulf and Grendel and the Anglo-Saxons. We will read the ancient legend and use this to write our own powerful descriptions of Grendel the monster. We will learn how to enhance our writing with similies, metaphors and personification. Children will plan and write their own 'Defeating the Monster' stories. They will also use their knowledge of the Anglo-Saxons to write factual reports on aspects of their life. They will also practice taking notes from their research.
After half-term, Year 5 will be reading the book Coming to England by Floella Benjamin. They will be using this text to explore the migration of people from the Caribbean to Great Britain after WW2. Children will be learning how to use adverbss, modal verbs and embedded clauses in their complex sentences. They will eventually plan and write newspaper articles about the 'Windrush generation.'
Summer
In Term 5, we will be reading Raiders by Lynne Benton. This book is a time-slip story between the Viking and modern times. It also, continues on our Anglo-Saxon topic in Term 3. The class will be focusing on verb tenses and how to write and control a complex story plot. They will then innovate their own time-slip story. Following this, they will also write a non-chronological reports about the Viking raids on Great Britain.
In their final term, Year 5 will be linking their writing to the Year 5/6 end of year production. We will read different versions of the story and compare them. We will also consolidate all our grammar and writing skills from the year. The class will write their own versions of the story, changing an element of their choice.
