English

At Peel Hall we have linked our ‘Learning Challenge’ curriculum to the writing we do.

We use a selection of quality texts, experiences and hooks to inspire writing.

The information below provides an overview of the quality texts we use for each year group.

Year 1 Key resources Topic title (films, web sites, Non-fiction Fiction Poetry visits) Autumn 1 Experience: Where my wellies take me – The Lonely Beast – Chris  Youtube – wind – what it Where do my Visit around the Morpurgo Judge (& trailer) does, wellies take me? local area – take Start up geography – Our local Home before dark - Beck  Create a wind word bank photos for the class area – Lee The wind and the sun story eg. blustery, windy, breeze, book How the weather works – Dorian Oh say can you say what’s the typhoon Mucky Knees Weather (Usborne beginners) – weather today – Dr Seuss  Weather poems for all Clarke Alfie Weather – Hughes seasons – Hopkins & Hall Film; Weather (Eye know) – Dorling The windy day – Milbourne  Poetry Paint box: weather William’s Wish Kindersley The wind blew - Hutchins poems – Foster Wellingtons The drops goes plop – a first The rainy day – Milbourne  The Wind – Reeves look at the water cycle – Stormy weather – Gliori  Who has seen the wind? – Godwin & Abel Rossetti  Perform their class wind poem

Autumn 2 Experience: Teacher book: Curriculum focus Dogger – Hughes Night before Christmas – Why do we play Visit to Hamleys – Toys The angel and the soldier boy Clement C. Moore with different Builder Bear Magic Grandad – Toys – Collington toys to our Film: Start up history – Stuart Ross The night the toys came to parents and Mr Magorium’s Dorling Kindersley - Toy Story life- Blyton grandparents? Wonder Emporium (non-fiction) While you are sleeping – (toy shop) Deacon Bag Puss (antique Old bear – Hissey shop with toys) Lost in the toy museum – an Toy Story adventure – Lucas The angel and the Toy boat – Randall de Seve soldier boy Nutcracker Role play: Magic Toy Shop Spring 1 Experience: Polar Regions (Planet Earth) - The red sleigh – (fantastic Antarctic antics – A book of Why can’t a TEN centre – hot Parker picture book – great for penguin poems – Sierra meerkat live in and cold land South pole non-fiction texts: retelling the story the North Pole? experience Igloos and Inuit Life (Big Picture: Homes) - Spilsbury North Pole fiction: Why do explorers Film: (linked to the Living in the Arctic (Rookie The Great Explorer – Chris enjoy visiting the South Pole) Read) - Fowler Judd (great text for retelling North and South Happy Feet Artic and Antartic (Eye Wonder) what happens when the Dad is Pole? Polar Express L Mack lost) Lost and Found Polar Bears – Ready to read - The big dark - Prater (all March of the Cooper about living in darkness) penguins Stay Cool: A Polar Bear's Guide Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What To Life - Regan & Chester Do You Hear?- Eric Carle South pole non-fiction texts: (quite a simple text) An Antarctic habitat Little Polar Bear - Hans de (introducing habitats) – Aloian Beer Penguins – Usborne beginners The little reindeer – Forman Antarctic – Usborne beginners (fantastic images of reindeer Pull Ahead Continents: and life in the north pole) Antarctica (Pull Ahead Books - Continents) [Paperback] South Pole fiction: Lost and Found - Jeffers The Emperor’s Egg – Jenkins Penguin Small - Inkpen Solo – The Little Penguin – Geraghty Penguin – Dunbar Penguin Small – Inkpen The penguin that wanted to find out – Tomlinson Cuddly Duddly – Alborough Penguins – Bone Spring 2 Explanation: Wonderwise: What's Up?: A Whatever next - Murphy Roaring Rockets – Mitton & Why do we want Planetarium book about the sky and space Man on the moon – Simon Parke to go to the TENS centre - Manning & Granstrom Bartram Space poems – Morgan moon? Film: Moonwalk – Callery (good text Bob’s best friend – Simon A grand day out for ideas for different ways to Bartram Clangers present information) Aliens in underpants Baboon on the moon The first moon landing – a We're off to look for aliens – Button Moon graphic text McNaughton Moon landing The sea of tranquillity – Haddon Q Pootle 5 & Q Pootle in One Giant leap – the story of space - Butterworth Neil Armstong – Brown On the moon Stanley Space Alienography – Riddell (picture adventure - Frais reference with lots of different The aliens are coming - Mc aliens) Naughton G is for Gzonk – Di Terlizzi How to catch a star – Oliver (picture reference) Jeffers The way back home - Oliver Jeffers UFO – Kitamaru Bringing down the moon – Emmett Stars – Frazee (beautiful language) Star seeker – Heine (beautiful language) Summer 1 Experience: Wonderwise: My Body, Your The leaf man – Ehlert What happens Visit to the garden Body: A book about human and Enormous turnip when things grow centre animal bodies Jack and the beanstalk and grow? Role play: Doing the Garden - Jasper’s beanstalk – Percy wants to Sarah Garland Butterworth & Inkpen retire and they Jack's Garden -Henry Cole Jim and the beanstalk – Briggs need to find a new Little green helpers – Grow - Eating the alphabet – Ehlert park keeper Engel (good for a different way Oliver’s Vegetables – French to present information as it had Oliver’s Fruit Salad – French push-up tabs) Oliver’s Milk Shake – French Plant (Eye Know) - Arlon Black dog – Levi Pinfold (a dog Bean diary that grows bigger than a house) The biggest bed in the world! Katie and the sunflowers – - Camp ( that grow and Mayhem grow) Chistopher Nibble – Middleton (Guinea pig that must save everyone by knowing how to grow a dandelion) Oh no monster tomato – Helmore (return of the killer tomatoes – a great pop-up book)

Summer 2 Experience: Creative Planning / Pirates & A new home for a pirate – Pirate poems – Harmer Would you like to Visit from Jack Seaside - Peet Armitage ( a key text – see Talk Class Three All At Sea - be a pirate? Sparrow Pirate Things to Make and Do for Writing clip) Jarman Film: (Usborne Activities) - Gilpin Captain Beastie’s Pirate Party Ten little Pirates – Brownlow How to be a pirate – Pirates – Coats & Mould (lots of & Rickety Peter Pan (animated Handbook – (good language play and pirate speak!) and real life) for teaching ideas) The Pirates next door - Duddle Pirates (Ardman) Imagine you’re a pirate – Meg & Pirate House Swap – Lonstaff & Captain Flinn and Blackheart Chambers (landlubbers and the pirate dinosaurs How to be a pirate in 7 day or pirates swap their homes!) - (you tube) less – Lewis (a very good factual Mrs Pirate (Read Me Beginners Channelography.ratt text) Series) - lecentral.com/progr 1001 pirate things to spot – Sharratt ammes/b00k7tmt – Lloyd Jones Captain Flinn and the pirate link to episode 34 Pirate ships - Usborne lift the dinosaurs - Andreae of Sceebies flap book - Lloyd The night pirates - Harris bedtime stories A Bloodthirsty pirates – clever Toms pirate ship new home for a Clogs (great text full of Captain Beasties Pirate Party – pirate information) Coats & Mould Tim, Ted and the pirates The pirate treasure map: a fairytale adventure – Hawkins

Year 2 Key resources (films, Non-fiction Fiction Topic Title web sites, visits) Poetry Autumn 1 Stimuli: Prehistoric Record breaker Little Green Dinosaur Stomp, chomp, big roars here What will A dragon’s egg The Usborne big book of big (Consultant’s simple lost and come the dinosaurs – Umansky & hatch out dinosaurs found story) Sharratt of the egg? Experience: Tyrannosaurus Rex The Somethingosaurus – Mitton Bumpus Jumpus Dinosaurumpus – (Dinosaur Visit to Manchester Dinosaur meat eaters & Ayto (good lost and found Mitton Parker-Rees focus) Museum Dinosaur duel based story) Dinosaur Poems – Foster Dinosaur mums and babies The egg - M. Robertson (to Film: How to grow a dinosaur – Hart & read to them about looking Dinosaur (Disney) Eaves (fiction & instructions) after an egg) Ice Age 3 DK Nature activities - Rock and Bumposaurus - P McKinlay fossil hunter Dinosaurs galore – Andrea Dinosaur things to make and do Dinosaur roar – Strickland – Gilpin Winnie’s Dinosaur Day – How to grow a dinosaur – Hart Thomas & Paul (fun text) The Littlest Dinosaur– Foreman Tyrannosaurus Drip – Donaldson & Roberts Dinosaur who lost his roar - Dinosaur’s diary – Donaldson Dinosaurs love underpants – Freedman & Court Harry and his bucket full of dinosaurs - Whybrow Tom and the island of dinosaurs - Beck Tom and the dinosaur egg - Beck Mungo and the dinosaur island – Knapman Dinosaurs love underpants – Freedman Crunch, munch, dinosaur lunch – Bright & Terry Dinosaurs and all that rubbish – Foreman Dance of the dinosaurs – Hawkins Autumn 2 Experience: The life of Samuel Pepys - Toby and the Great Fire of How can we Mucky Knees – creating Lynch London – Nash & Cope put the fire fires The Great Fire of London - The fire cat – Goodhart & out? Setting fire to their Clements Hurst Tudor houses Collins Big Cat - Plague and Raven Boy: A Tale of the (Great Fire Resources: Fire: Lime/Band 11 (3 Sep 2012) Great Fire of London - of London) Images of the Fire of The Great Fire of London Big Goodhart London Book (How Do We Know Visit from the fire About?) – Fox brigade The Great Fire of London – Fox Magic Grandad A big book – The Great Fire of Film: London The Great Fire of The Great Fire: A City in London (video/media) Flames (National Archives) by Ann Turnbull (12 Sep 2013

Beginning History: The Great Fire Of London - Gogerly Danger Zone: Avoid Being in the Great Fire of London (The Danger Zone) - Pipe & Antram Ways Into History: The Great Fire Of London - Hewitt Historical Stories: Great Fire of London - Atkins The National Archives: The Great Fire of London Unclassified: Secrets Revealed! - Hunter Popcorn: History Corner: The Great Fire of London - Powell Famous People, Great Events: The Great Fire of London - Clements Spring 1 Experience: The Wright brothers and the Leonardo and the flying boy – Why do you Visit to Manchester science of flight – Graham Anholt (fiction based on fact) think people Science Museum Flying machines Eyewitness Winnie the witch and the want to fly? Look inside cross sections – Jets broom – Thomas & Paul (story of Film: Monster machines – Jets trying to find the right form of Night at the Museum 2 How Santa really works – Snow flying transport) The magnificent men in Winnie the witch and the their flying machine broom – Thomas Catch the pigeon Room on the broom – Donaldson Flying man competition (good repetitive story) Flyboys (WW 1) Up and down – Jeffers (linked Mephis Belle (WW II) to ‘Lost and Found’ a delightful story about a penguin who is desperate to fly) Calvin can’t fly – the story of a bookworm birdie – Berne (another story of a bird who can’t fly, but uses his brain to help when it looks like they won’t survive in the bad weather) Egg Drop – Grey (all about an egg that wants to fly!) The magic bed - Burningham (episodic as the bed flies to a new location and experience every night) The Dragon Machine - Ward (creating a flying dragon machine) Spring 2 Films: Little Science Stars: Minibeasts The Ugly Bug Ball - We Love Bugs: 31 Classic Do you want A bugs life - Vaughan Burns, Freeman & Edwards Insect Poems for Kids (We Love to go to the Antz RSPB My First Book of Garden Speckle the Spider – Dodson Poetry) - Dickinson M Lee Bug Uglybug The Bee Story Bugs - Unwin Snail Trail - Brown Off!: Creepy, Crawly Poems - Ball? RSPB First Book of Mini-beasts Yolen & Stemple Tadpole’s Secret – Willis (a (minibeasts Wild Polybag - Ganeri clever story about the love Insect Soup: Bug Poems & habitats) Insect Bugs (Usborne Beginners) - between a tadpole and the (Rainbow Morning Music Picture Bowman caterpillar) Books) - Louis Polisar & Clark Caterpillar to Butterfly The Teeny Weeny Tadpole - (Lifecycles) - de la Bedoyere Cain Egg to Bee (Life Cycles) - de la Growing Frogs – French (an Bedoyere interesting book that has both Learning About Life Cycles: The factual and fiction elements in Life Cycle of a Ladybird - it) Thomson Bees & Wasps (Usborne Beginners) - Maclaine

Summer 1 Experience: 100 things you should know Can’t you sleep little bear – Where do Visit from Birds of Prey about night animals - Meredith Waddell (cumulative story) all the Centre Nocturnal animals - Bedoyere The owl babies –Waddell animals go Film clips: The Big Dark – Prater (repetitive) at night? Night and Day – Pixar Bats - Usborne The owl who was afraid of the (Nocturnal Bats clips Zipping zapping zooming bats - dark-Tomlinson animals & Anne Earle The littlest owl - Pitcher habitats) Stellaluna - Cannon (lyrical story) Daft Bat - Willis and Ross Goodnight, baby bat – Gliori Summer 2 Experience: Curriculum Focus – The Local Flotsam – Weisner – To use as Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk How and Visit to Salford Quays – Area – Flint (Teacher Resource an initial stimulus to take you Cats and dogs – lyrics why has The Lowry with lots of ideas and activities) back in time with an old Salford & retail & Media city Children’s history of fashioned camera – that takes changed so Resources: Manchester – Holroyd pictures of Salford over the much? A time travelling camera A walk around a school –Hewitt years (Local (used in the picture book Investigate communities – Morris study) Flotsam) Lego City – Sonia Sander Lowry paintings Maps of the area Photographs of Salford over the years Where Experience: Africa is not a country - Handa’s Surprise - Browne would you Visit from African Burns (good for getting Handa’s Egg – Browne prefer to dancers or drummers children to understand that Where’s Jamela? – Daly live – Africa is a continent full of very Understanding life in a South England or Film: different countries) African township Africa? Lion King Continents – Africa What’s cooking Jamela? – Daly (A more complex factual text Jamela’s dress – Daly Work of artist: with a great deal of detail) Not so fast Songolo – Daly Martin Bulinya A is for Africa (good for descriptions of an Lion Journal b- Carolyn Franklin African market and relationship Ebele’s favourite – a book of between Granmother and African games Grandson) Look what came from Africa - Mama Panya's Pancakes: A Harvey (full of interesting facts Village Tale from Kenya – about all the different things Chamberlin that this continent has given the We all went on safari – a world – might inspire some ideas) counting journey through Tanzania We’re going on a lion hunt – Axtell The leopard’s drum An Asante from West Africa Bringing the rain to Kapiti Plain – V. Ardeena

Year 3 Key resources (films, Topic title web sites, visits) Non-fiction Fiction Poetry Autumn 1 Experience: Savage Stone age – Horrible Minnow and the bear – Ben Poetry inspired by cave Is Ice Age/ Setting up a time team Histories Blathwayt (picture book) painting & the perils of The Croods archaeological dig The stone Age – Dr Brian Knapp The Wild Girl – Wormell (picture hunting based on fact? Film: Stone Girl Bone Girl – the story of book) Ug – Briggs (picture book) Ice Age Mary Anning of Lyme Regis – Anholt Littenose the hero – Grant The Croods The Fossil Girl - Catherine Brighton (short chapter book) Extracts from Indiana Monster Stones – Bailey Oi cave boy – MacDonald (short Jones film showing – Usborne chapter book) Booom – MacDonald (short them how The lost village of Skara Brae – chapter book) archaeologists work Collins Big Cat Stig of the dump – King (novel) Stone Age Bone Age – Manning

Resources Hands on history Stone Age - Savage Stone age – Hurdman Horrible Histories The Secrets of Stonehenge – (dvd) Manning Web site: www.stoneagetools.co. uk www.timetravellerkids .co.uk www.bbc.co.uk/histor y/forkids www.bbc.co.uk/scotla nd/learning/primary/s karabrae

Autumn 2 Experience: (Horrible Histories Special) Extracts from: Why should we Extracts from the - Deary (good for lots of Rooftoopers (a difficult text set visit parts of Tour de France information for both teacher and on the roof tops of Paris) France? Film (set in Paris): pupils) Hugo Cabret – Selznick (a Ratatouille Children's Book About France: A difficult text, but with amazing Aristocats Kids Picture Book About France illustrations of the Paris train Hunch back of Notre With Photos and Fun Facts - station) Dam Williams (general book to introduce The Little Prince - De Saint- Hugo (set in a Paris the country) Exupery & Woods train station) Paris: A Three-Dimensional … - The Hunchback of Notre Dam Belleville Rendez-Vous McMenemy (a pop-up version of Paris (a wonderful animated – good for display) film about a Not For Parents Paris: Everything grandmother who you ever wanted to know (Lonely supports her grandson Planet Not for Parents Travel to train for the Tour de France, but when he Book) by Lonely Planet is kidnapped she has to DK Eyewitness Travel Family pursue him across the Guide: Paris - Smart (good to link french landscape) with research on tourism and key places in Paris) Tour de France Web A walk in Paris – Rubbino (picture site book showing things to see in Paris) Young Readers: The Tour de France for Children - LeBlanc & Kids Reading / Grade School Books Collins Big Cat - The Tour de France: Pearl/Band 18 by Sean Callery Tour de France (Xtreme Races) - Hamilton Tour de France: The Illustrated History - Lazell Spring 1 Experience: Oxford connections – Year 6 pupils Greek Myths for young children What have the A Greek day book – Sue Palmer (a great resource (Usborne) Amery & Edwards Greeks done for with lots of information in different Greek myths and legends us? Film: text types – this could be adapted) (Usborne) – Claybou Jason and the Oxford Connections – Teacher’s The Orchard Book of Greek Argonauts book – Sue Palmer (frames to Myths – McCaughrean & Percy Jackson and the support different text types) Chichester Clark lightning thief Ancient Greeks – Eyewitness Greek myths & legends The Groovy Greeks – Deary (Usborne) Spend the day in Ancient : Greek Myths - Williams (cartoon projects and activities – Honan version of the myths) Ancient Greeks – 100 facts – Percy Jackson and the lightning MacDonald thief - Riordan (more demanding text, but good for descriptive/action scenes)

Spring 2 Experience: Visit to Horrible histories – Awesome Princess of Egypt – Cross Why did the Manchester Museum Egyptians – Deary Egyptian Diary – Platt Egyptians build within first week of Who built the pyramids? – Cox The Egyptian Cinderella – Shirley so many the trip to inspire The Egyptian Echo – Dowswell Climo (picture book) pyramids? children Egypt in spectacular cross section – The plot of the pyramid – Terry Biesty Deary (there are a series in these Film: The Prince of A time traveller’s field notes and shorter chapter books)The time Egypt; The ; observations of – travelling Cat and the Egyptian The Mummy 2 Gray Goddess – Jarman (more complex Egyptian things to make and and demanding story) do – Usborne activity books – Bone The Egyptians – Crafts Spend the day in ancient Egypt: Projects and activities - Honan

Mummy linked texts: Top 10 worst creepy Egyptian – Stewart Mummies – Sloane Mummies – Carney Uncovering mummies – Raintree (graphic novel) Summer 1 Film clips: Violent Volcanoes (Horrible Running with Gladiators – an  What makes the The Icelandic eruption Geography) - Ganeri & Phillips (good adventure about the day that Earth angry? for teacher knowledge) Vesuvius erupted (simple chapter Volcanoes (Usborne Beginners) - book) Turnbull (relatively simple factual Escape from Pompeii (picture book) book) Volcano (Eye Wonder) by DK Extract from ‘My Story – a (visually very informative) Roman Girl’s Diary AD 78 Volcanos (100 Facts)- Oxlade Pompeii’ – Reid (longer, more (full of fascinating facts) demanding text) Volcanoes - Francis & Oppenheimer The Volcano Book for Children, Mums, Dads and Teachers: UK and Europe Edition - Lomas & Lomas Summer 2 Experience: The Gooey, Chewy, Rumble, Plop Monster and chips – David  Why can’t we Visit to MacDonalds/ Book Alton & Sharratt (a book O’Connell (a well written short just live on restaurant/ about what happens to food in the chapter book with lots of menus MacDonalds? superstore body) for a monster café. Good for I know where my food goes – character descriptions. Effective Sam’s Science –Maynard & McEwen illustrations to support writing) Look Inside: Your Body (Usborne Monster and Chips: Night of Look Inside) - Stowell & Leake the Living Bread - David O’Connell Good enough to eat – A kids guide (sequel) to food and nutrition – Rockwell Monster and Chips: Food Fright Why do we eat? Usborne Beginners - David O’Connell (sequel) Where Food Comes from (Little Science Stars)- Ronnie Randall Wonderwise: Yum Yum: A book about food chains – Manning & Granstrom

Year 4 Key resources Topic Title (films, web sites, Non-fiction Fiction Poetry visits) Autumn 1 Experience: Romans in Italy: Tertius and the Horrible Hunt - Why were the Visit to Chester Rotton Romans – Deary Jungman (simple text) Romans so Film: My life as a Roman Slave - Across the Roman Wall powerful and Gladiator / Spartacus Hunter (Bug club – 3b (Flashbacks) - Breslin what did we Roman Mysteries - readers) Down with the Romans! learn from The Complete Series You wouldn’t want to be a (Flashbacks) - Ross them? One – children’s Roman Gladiator – Malam & The Fatal Fire (Roman Tales) programme about Antram - Deary Roman adventures Life and times in ancient Dream Master: Gladiator - Rome – Kingfisher Berlin Rome and Romans – Usborne Young Roman Girl (History Time Travellers Diaries) – Butterfield How to be a Roman in 21 Roman Invasion (My Story) easy stages – Anderson (a - Eldridge (more demanding novel) really engaging text) The Time-Travelling Cat and A Roman soldier’s handbook the Roman Eagle - Jarman Roman city guide book (more demanding novel) Romans – Usborne beginners Dark Eagle and Other Historical Gladiators and Ancient Stories - Tonge Rome

Pompeii – Usborne Young

Reader Roman Activity Book (Crafty History) - Weatherill Roman things to make and do (Usborne activity)

Avoid Being a Roman Soldier (Danger Zone) – Stewart (humorous book full of facts) Roman Soldier's Handbook (Usborne Handbook) – Sims A Roman soldier’s handbook – Hawes (White Wolves)

Romans in Britain: – Macdonald (Oxford Connections) Teacher & pupil book The Romans in Britain – Curriculum Visions You are in Roman Britain What the Romans did for us Autumn 2 Experiences : The sprog owner’s manual – The tooth fairy – Bob Graham Oh I wish I’d looked after me Why do you Visit from Science Babette Cole (a funny text (more traditional picture book teeth – Pam Ayres (children learn have to look theatre company - with captions of how the story of the tooth fairy) parts of the poem) after your From chew to poo body works) Toothiana – queen of the tooth Black toothed Ruth Black – The teeth? Visit from dental Watch Dental Denial (file) fairy armies – Rise Guardians – girl who wouldn’t brush her hygienist (to find out how the teeth Joyce teeth – Barron & Wick work) Rise of the guardians – Joyce Digestion – Little Gems Spiderwick – (Fairies linked to Film: I know where my food goes tooth fairies) Rise of the guardians – Maynard & McEwen Demon Dentist – Walliams (about the tooth fairy) The Digestive system - Explanation texts (linked to the Spiderwick (looking at Body systems – Young tooth fairy trying to create a different elves) explorers machine for stealing back the The digestive system - teeth) Explanation clips: Hewitt Scaredy Squirrel- Watt – caption The Looking after me – teeth – led Tellyscope/Snoozotron Gogerly & Gordon Until I met Dudley – McGough – (Wallace and gromit – Investigate teeth – Guillain linked captions cracking contraptions Spring 1 Experience: Smashing – Horrible Stranger at the gate - Time Read the poetry of Beowulf What did the Tens centre to produce Histories – Deary Chronicles (ORT) http://www.earlybritishkingdom Anglo-saxons do their version of Buried Treasure – Invaders – Real lives – Boudica – The story of the s.com/kids/beowulf_poem.html for us? Beowulf with the green Bug Club – fearless Iceni Queen screen/animation Project History – Anglo King Arthur and the of Saxons the Round Table (Illustrated Film: Anglo Saxon and Viking Classics) - Marcia Beowulf (extract) Britain - Woolf Williams (Cartoon strip of his Sword in the stone Anglo-saxon – Raiders and stories) King Arthur (extract) settlers – Dr Brian Knapp Arthur (tv adaptation) Men women and children in Favourite Classics: King Arthur Youtube: Anglo Saxon Times and the Knights of the Round Sutton Hoo – Roman and Anglo Saxons in Table - Sasha Morton http://youtu.be/2EAw Britain Arthur High King of Britain - okOFjvA How to be an Anglo-Saxon Michael Morpurgo (more http://youtu.be/6ofCN in 15 easy stages – demanding text) SfF3vM Anderson (Bug Club)

Boudica – Famous people, Beowulf (Young Reading (Series Beowulf: famous lives 3) - Lloyd Jones & Tavares (a Anglo Saxon Britain http://beowulfresourc – simpler version of the story) es.com/ Activity book (use with http://www.michellehe caution – as this could Beowulf – Holland nry.fr/beowulf.htm become death by photocopy) Beowulf – Crossley Holland & Keeping (powerfully written) http://en.wikipedia.org Beowulf – Morpurgo & Foreman /wiki/Beowulf#Story (detailed version with powerful illustrations)

Spring 2 Experience: Witch’s cabinet (Dawn’s Alice in Wonderland - Carroll What have potions been used What happens if Visit from a photo - visual resource full Harry Potter – Rowling looking at for? (put people to sleep, change I drink the chemist/scientist of potions and bottles) the charms within the book what they see etc) How does potion? Film: Collect a range of different Creating potions with imaginative Shakespeare use potions in his Who owns the Alice in Wonderland bottles with instructions results! writing (playtexts) cabinet? Jackanory – George’s about how to use them Spells – Gravett Midsummer Night’s Dream – marvellous Medicine Spells for turning the teacher potion in characters eyes so they Scene from Harry Information book about the into a frog! (instructional writing) fall in love with people (eg. Potter when potions history of anaesthetic / Extract from George’s Titania/Bottom) were being used solids/liquids/gases Marvellous Medicine – Dahl – Create a new modern version of Fantasia (music) series descriptive piece of writing the Witch’s scene from Macbeth Resources: Worst Witch – Murphy (when Present this to the rest of the Ikea – sets of three potions go wrong) class.(link this back to George’s perfume bottles Lost Happy Endings – Carol Anne Marvellous Medicine) Art: Duffy The Love Potion – Leon and the place between – Evenly de Morgan Baker-Smith Memory bottle – (picture book about collecting memories in different sorts of bottles) Creating a spell (based on Harry Potter’s charms) Dragon’s Den – you have to persuade someone to choose your potion to make at the potion school Summer 1 Experience: Research famous architects Why should we Visit to Manchester /bridge builders be mad for Visit from an architect Children’s History of Manchester? Manchester – Holroyd In the city – Harvey Text and resources: Tourist information brochures Street maps Ordnance Survey Maps Road Altas Map of the British Isles Photographic evidence of the past – Market Street then and now Web-sites: http://www.magworld.c o.uk/teachingresources (resources from Manchester airport – some good material) http://www.bbc.co.uk/l earningzone/clips/expl oring-manchester-pt- 2-4/7896.html (images & info about Manchester) Summer 2 Experience: Usborne Young Reading – Bootleg – Shearer Chocolate cake – Michael Rosen Should chocolate Visit from chocolatier The story of chocolate Charlie and the chocolate be banned? Film: Triffic chocolate (Like a factory – Dahl Charlie and the horrible histories book) Matilda – Dahl (description of Chocolate family Chocolate – Riches from the when Bogtrotter eats the Rainforest chocolate cake) The story behind Chocolate Chocolate fever – Robert Kimmel – Sean Stewart Price Smith (simpler text) Chocolate – A sweet history The chocolate touch – Patrick The Story of Chocolate – Skene Catling (simpler text) DK readers Lulu and the chocolate wedding – Chocolate – The consuming Posy Simmonds (picture book) passion – Boynton

Year 6 Key resources Topic title (films, web sites, Non-fiction Fiction Poetry visits) Autumn 1 Experience; Dorling Kindersley – history of film Examples of texts Why do we all Tens Centre Nightmare before Christmas love film? Moston small cinema Howl’s moving castle visit Hunger Games (Lights Camera Film: Coraline – different ways of presenting Action) Paper aeroplane the same story Up Mary Poppins (both The day the crayons quit – Daywalt trailers) Malificent / Sleeping Beauty Guardian adverts Dangle Hunger Games

Autumn 2 Experience: The Daily Life of a world War II My secret war diary – Flossie Albright /Spring 1 Visit to Stockport Air Evacuee – Childs - Williams (an intricate fiction diary full How did World raid shelter Children in Wartime of different texts – an essential text for War II affect Visit to Imperial War (Creative Curriculum) – MacDonald supporting writing) Manchester? Museum World War II Children in history – Timetrain to the blitz - McKenzie MacDonald War boy –Foreman (autobiographical Film: World War II poster book – Opie book about the authors memories of 1940s House (BBC Avoid being second World War WWII – great pictures) programme) Evacuee – Smith Machine Gunners – Westall Hope and Glory (a Britain at war – Evacuation - Blitz – Swindells (chapter book) wonderful Parsons Goodnight Mr Tom – Magorian (extract) autobiographical film The Blitz - Replica Newspaper Rose Blanche – Innocenti (picture book that would need to be (Resources for Teaching - World about a German child) edited due to some War 2) The Harmonica – Johnston (picture inappropriate scenes) by Mempack based on a true story about a Jewish Good night Mr Tom The Blitz: Memorabilia Pack child who survives a concentration camp) Anne Frank’s Diary Home Front: Memorabilia Pack Yellow Star - Roy (about a child hiding in the Jewish ghetto) Anne Frank’s Diary (short extract) Spring 2 Experiences: Animal welfare webites Olivia at the circus - Should we go A circus in school Dimity Dumpty – (egg who wants to be to the circus Circus performers into in the circus) school Biscuit Bear – Grey The circus of thieves – Sutcliffe Film: (bonkers!) Cirque de Soleil (no The diamond thief – Gosling (a more animals) demanding text about a trapeze artist turned thief) Summer 1 Film: Physical geography (see file): Framed – Cottrell Boyce Why is North Framed Oxford Connections – Mountains (2 such a Resources: books) great place to Lledr contrasted Oxford Connections – Water and visit? Snowdonia rivers Maps of Snowdonia Maps of Manchester Tourism: Brochures from the Research Zip World area Research Llangollen White water rafting Web sites: Link to research on art (Framed)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ programmes/p00rfvk1/ profiles/frank- cottrell-boyce

Summer 2 Web sites: Mayans, Incas, and Aztecs Holes – Sachar Hola Mexico! http://www.history.co (Primary Source Readers) - Conklin Desert Trip - Steiner Who are the m/topics/maya - clips The History Detective TimeRiders: Mayans and about the Mayans Investigates: Mayan Civilization – The Mayan Prophecy - Scarrow what have we http://www.mayafacts. Hibbert The Hero Twins – animation of the Maya learnt from blogspot.co.uk/ - facts The Ancient Maya (True Books: legend them? about the Mayans Ancient Civilizations) - Maloy Dwarf-Wizard of Uxmal -Shetterly & Avoid being a Mayan Soothsayer Shetterly historylink101.com/1/m (Danger Zone) – Matthews & The Chocolate Tree: A Mayan Folktale ayan/ancient_mayan Antram (On My Own Folklore) - Lowery Recipe book about the day of the To the Stars by Canoe: A Mayan dead parable for children – Haswell TimeRiders: The Mayan Prophecy - Scarrow Barnaby Grimes (book 2) – Steward & Riddell (A Mayan like sacrifice in the opening chapter)