Forest Academy 1

Year 6: Are stories real or imaginary?NC - links

WOW: Dress up as your favourite story characterLC1 How do you improve your story writing

skills?

LC2 How familiar are you with different story genres?

LC3 How familiar are you with different story genres?

LC4 What is a traditional story?

LC5 What ingredients make up a good story?

Literacy Link: Narratives of different genres and sentence structures.

Science Link: Evolution and Inheritance

Geography Link: Maps (General Enquiry)

Numeracy: See Medium Term Plans

History: Chronological Understanding

ICT: Blog

Wow: Dress up as your favourite story character.

Short stories:

- Blodden

Forest Academy 2

Year : Are stories real or imaginary?

Year 6:

Science Geography ICT

• Can they give reasons for why living things produce offspring of the same kind?• Can they give reasons for why offspring are not identical with each other or with their parents?• Can they explain the process of evolution and describe the evidence for this?• Can they begin to appreciate that variation in offspring over time can make animals more or less able

to survive in particular environments?• Can they talk about the life of Charles Darwin?

• Can they explain how some living things adapt to survive in extreme conditions?• Can they analyse the advantages and disadvantages of specific adaptations, such as being on two

rather than four feet?• Can they begin to understand what is meant by DNA?

• Can they confidently explain scale and use maps with a range of scales?

• Can they choose the best way to collect information needed and decide the most appropriate units of measure?

• Can they make careful measurements and use the data?

• Can they use OS maps to answer questions?

• Can they use maps, aerial photos, plans and web resources to describe what a locality might be like?

• Can they define geographical questions to guide their research?

• Can they use a range of self selected resources to answer questions?

We are app creators – understanding the power of Smart Phones and using basic software to create own app.

• Can they confidently choose the correct page set up option when creating a document?

• Can they confidently use text formatting tools, including heading and body text?

• Can they use the ‘hanging indent’ tool to help format work where appropriate (e.g. a play script)?

(POW)

History• Can they say where a period of history fits on a timeline?• Can they place a specific event on a timeline by decade?• Can they place features of historical events and people from past societies and periods in a

chronological framework?

Forest Academy 3

Year 3: Are stories real or imaginary?

LC1 - How do you improve your story writing skills? LC2/3 - How familiar are you with different story genres?

L.C. Can I use connectives to start sentences?Grammar: What is a noun? Common nounsL.C. Can I identify and discuss the key features of different fiction genres?L.C. Can I analyse the language and organisational features of fiction genres?L.C. Can I plan, draft, write and improve a short passage in a particular genre using appropriate language and organisational features?L.C. Can I plan, draft, write and (improve) a short passage in a particular genre using appropriate language and organisational features?L.C. Can I plan and write a story about my journey to school in a chosen genre?

L.C. Can I identify the main characters used in Mac’s adventure story?L.C. Can I identify the features of the build up and problem from Mac’s adventure? Can I use our understanding of the events from the opening, build up and problem to predict what will happen in the events? L.C. Can I identify the features of a different opening and build up an adventure narrative?Can I use the opening of Blodden’s adventure to develop our own basic plot ideas for an adventure narrative?L.C. Can I identify the main features from the dilemma of Blodden’s Adventure?Can I create a plan for a traditional tale?L.C. Can I use our plan to write a detailed, entertaining adventure narrative for a reader?

Forest Academy 4

Year : Are stories real or imaginary?

LC4 - What is a fantasy story? LC5 - What ingredients make up a good story? Reflection Point

L.C. Can I write an effective traditional story opening, build-up and dilemma? L.C. Can I write an effective traditional story dilemma, events, resolution and ending?

LC: Can I present my story in an interesting way?LC: Can I turn my story into a blog?