Year+5

For this unit we focus on Michael Morpurgo, reading the Wreck of the Zanzibar as a class **~squiggle7**
 * __Narrative 1 - Novels by significant children's authors__**

__**Narrative 2 - Traditional stroies, fables, myths and legends**__ We linked this unit to our topic on the Ancient Greeks and looked at Ancient Greek myths. We also spent some time looking at Robin Hood but this needs tweaking this year as the children got really bored of it. **~squiggle7**

Focus on The Mouth-Organ Boys and something else that I can't remember **~squiggle7**
 * __Narrative 3 - Stories from other cultures__**

Read Black Beauty as a class **~squiggle7**
 * __Narrative 4 - Older literature__**

__**Narrative 5 - Film narrative**__ Swapped this one and did unit 6 first so that they could write their film narrative as a script instead. We watched three short films: the Piano, Geri's game and One Man Band. We focussed on different aspects of writing for each film and then the children wrote a whole narrative for One Man Band. **~squiggle7**

In this unit we looked at the story of Peter Pan, read a section of the story and then the children wrote it out as a script. They then compared it to a script version we had to see how well they had done. They also swapped scripts with classmates to see how easy they were to follow. **~squiggle7**
 * __Narrative 6 - Dramatic conventions__**

Spent time looking at lots of different sets of instructions then wrote instructions for making windmills **~squiggle7**
 * __Non-fiction1 - Instructions__**

Can't remember what we did for this one! Obviously very memorable **~squiggle7** We did a recount of what it was like at the Olympic games. Worked really well.WW
 * __Non-fiction 2 - Recounts on the MTP__**

__**Non-fiction 3 - Persuasion**__ Looked at lots of persuasive texts then children made powerpoints to persuade for or against school uniform and wrote a letter to the council that own the empty land next to our school persuading them what to put there. **~squiggle7**

__**Poetry 1 - Poetic style**__ Looked at riddle poems and children wrote some wonderful poems of their own **~squiggle7 We're still using concrete and shape poetry ideas from NLS and doing river poems to link with geog topic and art work. We're doing a week on this and then a week on poetic style looking at Pie Corbett (ideas from Hamilton Trust) and then looking at The Magic Box because that always gives lots of inspiration for playing with ideas and language. WW

__Poetry 2 - Classic/narrative poetry__** Focussed on the Highwayman. Children wrote the story from the perspective of either Bess, the Highwayman or the ostler **~squiggle7**

Can't remember what we did for this one either! **~squiggle7**
 * __Poetry 3 - Choral and performance poetry__**