English

Spring 1

The Lion Inside 

The Lion Inside by Rachel Bright is a heart-warming story about a small mouse who feels overlooked and decides to find his roar. Through an unexpected friendship with a lion, the story shows children that bravery comes in all sizes and confidence can be found within.

Mastery Keys are the key skills and learning objectives children work towards in our Pathways to Write scheme. They outline the specific writing skills—such as grammar, vocabulary, structure and creativity—that pupils need to master in each unit. The Mastery Keys listed below show the exact skills your child will be developing and help you understand what they are working towards in their writing.

Mastery Keys 

Punctuate sentences using a capital letter and a full stop, some question marks, some exclamation marks.  

Join words and clauses using ‘and.’ 

Some accurate use of the pre-fix ‘un.’ 

Some accurate use of suffixes (where no change is needed to the root of the word e.g. ed, ing, er, est.   

Our Class Read: Bill's New Frock, Hotel Flamingo and Call the Puffins

This half term we will aim to read three exciting class novels together: Bill’s New Frock, Hotel Flamingo and Call of the Puffins. Each story offers something different — from laugh-out-loud humour and role reversal, to themes of kindness, teamwork and caring for the environment — helping us build a love of reading while exploring important ideas through engaging characters and adventures.