Elm Class

Reading

To support our Norman Conquest Topic, this half term in English our class text will be Anglo-Saxon Boy by Tony Bradman.

1065: Magnus is the son of Harold Godwinson, lord of the Southern Saxons and ruthlessly ambitious claimant to the throne of England. Overnight, Magnus finds himself cast centre-stage in the blood-soaked family feud that led to one of history's most famous battles.

This is the family tragedy behind 1066:

live it with Magnus, as the wolves of history close in on his Anglo-Saxon boyhood.

Reading

In Guided Reading this half term, Elm class will be reading Holes by Louis Sachar.

STANLEY YELNATS HAS BAD LUCK

(which is all because if his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather).

When Stanley's bad luck unfairly lands him in the juvenile detention centre Camp Green Lake (a very weird place that isn't green and doesn't have a lake), he and his campmates Zero, X-Ray, Armpit, Squid, Magnet and Zigzag are forced to dig holes in order to build character...

But what are they really digging for?

Writing

In writing, we will use a beautifully illustrated picture book set in Egypt, on the edge of the Sahara Desert, as out stimulus. 

The Day of Ahmed's Secret, by Florence Parry Heide & Judith Heide Gilliand, sees the young Ahmed going about his daily work, whilst carrying an exciting and potentially life-changing secret...

Trucks and donkeys, cars and camels, carts and buses... the bustling streets of Cairo are exciting, but today Ahmed will share his secret, which is even more exciting.