Narrative Focus:

General narrative

Key Text/Stimulus:

'Random Writing'

Narrative Writing Possible Outcomes*:

Building suspense and atmosphere
The AtticYou hear a strange noise coming from the attic. Write about what you find when you go to investigate.

Dialogue to advance the action

Talk to the AnimalsWhat if you could talk to animals? Write about when you met a wild animal and the adventure you went on.

Use of humour and tone

The Escaping ShadowYour shadow ran away. Write about what happened and explain how you got your shadow back.

Creating vivid setting descriptions

Space AdventureAs the spaceship lifted off, I held my breath and looked down at Earth...  Write about your space adventure. 

*These tasks are possible outcomes. Random Writing should also be informed by cohort need.

Focus Grammar

• Revisit previous content

Hot-seating as characters

Freeze frame

Conscience alley

Non-narrative Focus:General Non-narrative

Key Text/Stimulus:'Random Writing'

Non-narrative Writing Possible Outcomes*:

Non-Chronological Report

The Glimmersnatch

Create an information page about an invented creature called a Glimmersnatch. Write a report including facts about its appearance, behaviour, and habitat.

News Report

The Floating Island

A mysterious floating island appeared in the sky above your town! Write a newspaper article explaining what happened, what people saw, and what might happen next.

Recount (Letter)

Moon Trip

You’ve just returned from an unexpected visit to the Moon. Write a letter to your best friend telling them all about your adventure.

Persuasive Advert

Dream Catcher A new invention has been launched: The Dream Catching Helmet! Write an advert to persuade people to buy it, explaining what it does and why it's amazing.

Poetry

The Weather Imagine the weather could speak. Write a poem where the wind, rain, snow, or sunshine tells its story. 

*These tasks are possible outcomes. Random Writing should also be informed by cohort need.

Cross-curriculum support genres:

Persuasive Letter

Pathway: Typography & Maps 🔗

In this pathway children are introduced to typography design and they explore how they can create their own fonts and designs. Children explore how we can use visual letters and other elements to help convey ideas and emotions.They are introduced to the work of an artist and a designer who have both used lettering combined with maps to produce maps which tell stories. Children then go on to create their own visual and often three dimensional maps.  

Disciplines:

Design: Typography, Drawing, Collage, Sketchbooks

Medium:

Pencil, Pen, Paper

Artists:

Louise Fili, Grayson Perry, Paula Scher, Chris Kenny

What is typography and how can it change the meaning or feeling of artwork?

Typography is the art of arranging and designing letters and text. Artists can change the size, shape, style, spacing and layout of words to create different moods, guide the viewer’s attention and communicate meaning visually.

Typography – The style, arrangement and appearance of letters and text in artwork or design.

Layout – The way images, text and features are arranged on a page or surface.

Symbol – A simple picture or mark used to represent something on a map or in artwork.

Northumberland Agreed Syllabus Unit U2.10 What matters most to Humanists and Christians?

Debate, discussions, hot-seating

Prayer - speaking or listening to God to give thanks, ask for help or grow closer to Him.

Bible - the holy book of Christianity, containing teachings, stories and guidance for Christians to follow.

Commandments - rules given by God, including the Ten Commandments, which guide Christians in how to live.

Content:

Use digital maps to explore local town/area

Map symbols

Sketch maps

What key information can we find using maps, atlases and globes?

Maps, atlases, globes, and digital maps help us find important information about places, such as where countries, cities, rivers, and mountains are in the world. They can also show us things like weather, roads, how high or low land is, and even how people live in different areas!

What are the human and physical features local to Bedlington Station, Northumberland?
Bedlington Station, Northumberland, has human features such as residential areas, local shops, schools, and St. Bede’s Church,green spaces such as Gallagher Park, along with the historic railway station that gave the area its name. Its physical features include the River Blyth, nearby woodlands like Humford Woods, and is close to the coast.

What are the different types of land use?

Land can be used in different ways, like for homes (residential), shops and offices (commercial), farms (agriculture), factories (industrial), and parks or forests (recreation and nature).

Settlement – a place where people live and work, such as a village, town or city.

Land Use – the way land is used by people, for example for housing, farming, industry or recreation.

Country – an area of the United Kingdom made up of towns, villages and countryside, often with its own local government and identity.

Pathway: Bridges 🔗

Investigating different types of bridges and how structural strength is affected by shape and design.

Core: Structures

Giving instructions

Context Link

As urban planners working with Portal City Planners, you will investigate different types of bridges and explore how shape, materials and design affect strength and stability. Using your findings, you will design and build a bridge prototype capable of spanning a gap and supporting weight, before presenting your ideas and testing results to Billy Ding and the planning team.

What makes a bridge strong and stable?

A bridge is strong and stable when its shape and structure spread weight evenly and support the load safely. Different designs, such as beam, arch and truss bridges, use materials and shapes in different ways to improve strength and stop the bridge from collapsing.

Truss – A framework of joined triangles used to make a structure stronger and more stable.

Load – The weight or force that a bridge or structure must hold.

Compression– A pushing force that squashes or squeezes a material together.

Content:

Science content covered through PSHE/Jigsaw

Discussions, explanations, presentation

Puberty – the stage of development when a child’s body begins to change into an adult body and becomes capable of reproduction.

Adolescence – the period of growing up between childhood and adulthood when many physical and emotional changes happen.

Life Expectancy– the average number of years a person is expected to live.

Programming 1

Music 🔗

Applying programming skills to create a soundtrack for a particular genre.

Oak Academy

Singing for performance: syncopation in songs 🔗

Language Angels Unit 🔗

• En la cafetería (At the Café )