Curriculum Core Text Overview
Scotts Park Core Text overview for English 20/21
Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | |
YEAR 6 |
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English | "Here we are" whole school text |
BAME - A is for Activist Toms Midnight Garden and "The Journey" |
"Tales From the Caribbean" - Trish Cooke | Horror Genre including "The Haunted Hotel" by Wilkie Collins | Shakleton’s Journey | Core text – tbc |
YEAR 5 |
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English | Here we are - whole school text | Goodnight Mr Tom (3 weeks) | Skellig (2-3 weeks | The Jamie Drake Equation (3 weeks) | The Explorer (3 weeks) | Core Text (1): Macbeth |
Kensukes Kingdom | Rose Blanche (2 weeks) | The Voyage of the Beetle (2-3 weeks) | Pandora (2 weeks) | Journey to the River Sea (3 weeks) | Beowulf (3 weeks) | |
YEAR 4 |
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English | Core Text – Kindlekrax | Core Text – Varjak Paw | Core Text – The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane | Core Text – Pugs of the Frozen North | Core Text – Olvier Twist | Core Text – I was a rat! |
Gregory Cool – BAME | ||||||
YEAR 3 |
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BAME WEEK – A is for Activist | Escape From Pompeii | Ice Palace | Ug: Boy Genius of the Stone Age | Arthur and the Golden Rope / Greek Myths | ||
English | Core Text – The Magic Finger | The Polar Express | Narrative story | Stone Age Boy | ||
Key skills | Persuasive Letter, Diary entry, Balanced Argument, Recount | Newspaper report, setting descriptions, Balanced argument, information text | Narrative story, Non chronological report, Poetry: Haiku, Character descriptions | Comic strip, Play scripts, persuasive writing, instructional writing | Adventure story, alternative endings, letter writing, poetry | |
YEAR 1 |
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Paddington at the circus Olivia saves the circus | One day in the Savannah Non-fiction books | Lost and found How to catch a star Stuck | Beegu – CLP book Toys in Space Toy story | The Pirates next door Portside pirates | ||
English | A is for activism (BAME school focus) BAME – CLP books | Finding Nemo How to find gold – CLP boo | The day the crayons quit | |||
RECEPTION |
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Elmer, Books from around the world | Non-fiction books Whatever next? Q – Pootle 5 Beegu Healthy eating books Bob the man on the moon The Elf on the shelf | Supertato Supertato – Veggies assemble Traction Man | Everywhere bear Non-fiction books Naughty bus | No dinner Jack and the Beanstalk Three Little Pigs | Harry and his bucketful of dinosaurs Non – Fiction books | |
English | Handa’s Surprise, Knuffle Bunny | Bob the man on the moon The Elf on the shelf | Pom Pom is super The Three Little Superpigs Superworm | I will never not ever eat a tomato | Ahhh Spider! Puffin Peter Bog Baby |