2x weeks of English planning covering writing a diary entry, newspaper article and making a ‘wanted’ poster alongside some Drama activities.

2 weeks of Guy Fawkes. Lessons cover retell of a real event, poems, character description and making a wanted poster.

Focus on English - writing, speaking and listening and reading.

1 week - English Plan for The Leopard’s Drum: covering a retell, character description and thought shower.

A week of planning based on the Three Little Pigs story. Includes: retelling the story, writing letters and sequencing the story.

Resource is used to assess the letter formation throughout the year, identify letters that need improvement and show progress.

8 weeks worth of spellings that I have used for Year 1 to learn at home and test at school. Common Exception Words are included.

Everything children need on one resource. Print and laminate to use all year around.

These are the Reading Rocket bookmarks I have made for my Reception class. Each child starts with Rocket 1 and when they know all of the words they move to the next Rocket. There are 12 rocket bookmarks that go from phase 2-5, they include all high frequency and tricky words. Much easier than flashcards!!

I used this throughout the Reception year to identify where the children were working at for Reading. Starting from 30-50m through to ELG.

Spellings given out each week for a test the following week. Covers all the beginning sounds of Phase 5.

Medium term plan for The Great Fire of London, focusing on English.