In English this week, the children have started their new story, ‘The Lion and the Unicorn’, written by Shirley Hughes.

The children will explore the text in its historical context and discuss the themes and imagery within, for example, the Blitz and evacuees. We will use a range of grammatical concepts including dialogue to create inference about a character, a variety of noun phrases to create description, character comparisons using conjunctions, personification and prepositions to describe a setting.

The children will be writing a range of diary entries, letters, character comparisons, setting descriptions and will finish by writing their own evacuation narrative.