Class Four

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Recommended book list - Years 5 & 6

Year 5

Wolf Brother – Michelle Paver

Who Let the Gods out – Max Evans

Beatle Boy – MG Leonard

Boy in the Tower – Polly Ho-Yen

The Wolf Wilder – Katherine Rundell

Heidi – Johanna Spyri

Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer

The Wonder Garden – Jenny Bloom and Kristjana Willimas

The Breadwinner – Deborah Ellis

The Butterfly Lion – Michael Morpurgo

Charlotte’s Web – E.B White

Clockwork – Phillip Pullman

Danny the Champion of the World – Roald Dahl

The What on Earth? Wallbook Timeline of Big History – Christopher Lloyd

Dial a Ghost – Eva Ibbotson

Dragon Rider – Cornelia Funke

Emil and the Detectives – Erich Kastner

The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm – Norman Hunter

I Know what you did last Wednesday – Anthony Horowitz

Peter in Peril – Helen Bate

The Ghost of Thomas Kemp – Penelope Lively

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J.K Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K Rowling

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – J.K Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K Rowling

Heard it in the Playground – Allan Ahlberg

The Ultimate Alphabet – Mike Wilks

The Hundred and One Dalmations – Dodie Smith

The Iron Man – Ted Hughes

Krindlekrax – Philip Ridley

Scribbleboy – Philip Ridley

Stig of the Dump – Clive King

Hacker – Malorie Blackman

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit – Judith Kerr

Moondial – Helen Cresswell

The Deamon Headmaster – Gilliam Cross

The Witches – Roald Dahl

Bill’s New Frock – Anne Fine

The Mouse and his Child – Russell Hoban

The Clocktower Ghost – Gene Kemp

The Sheep-Pig – Dick King-Smith

King of the Cloud Forests – Michael Morpurgo

The Phoenix and the Carpet – E. Nesbit

The Scarecrow and his Servant – Philip Pullman

A Series of Unfortunate Events – Lemony Snicket

Woof – Allan Ahlberg

Laughter is and Egg – John Agard

The Factory Made Boy – Christine Nostlinger

Aquila – Andrew Norriss

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 0 Kate DiCamillo

Year 6

The Silly Book of Side-Splitting Stuff – Andy Seed

A Boy Called Hope – Lara Williamson

Illegal – Eoin Colder

The Nowhere Emporium – Ross Mackenzie

Time Travelling with a Hamster – Ross Welford

Cogheart – Peter Bunzl

The Girl of Ink and Stars – Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Eren – Simon P Clark

The Railway Children – E.Nesbit

Abomination – Robert Swindells

Carries War – Nina Bawden

The What on Earth? Wallbook Timeline of Nature – Christopher Lloyd

Raspberries on the Yangtze – Karen Wallace

The Crowstarver – Dick King-Smith

Awful End – Philip Ardagh

From Hereabout Hill – Michael Morpurgo

Fruit and Nutcase – Jean Ure

Granny – Anthony Horowitz

The Hobbit – J.R.R Tolkin

Kenzuke’s Kingdom – Michael Morpurgo

Lion Boy – Zizou Corder

The Machiene Gunners – Robert Westall

The Viewer – Gary Crew

My Swordhand is Singing – Marcus Sedgwick

Once – Morris Gleitzman

The Other Side of Truth – Beverley Naidoo

The SIlver Sword – Ian Serrailler

Skellig – David Almond

Superfudge – Judy Blume

Tell me no Lies – Malorie Blackman

The Weathermonger – Peter Dickinson

What Katy Did – Susan Coolidge

The Wheel of Surya – Jamila Gavin

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S Lewis

Goodnight Mister Tom – Michelle Magorian

Why the Whales Came – Michael Morpurgo

The Borrowers – Mary Norton

Silverfin – Charlie Higson

Oranges in No Man’s Land – Elizabeth Laird

Being resourceful

Geography and English collide in our 'Being Resourceful' experience where children learnt about global warming and the skills needed to write a persuasive letter. We then put these skills to good use by writing a persuasive letter to Crystal Palace Football Club, encouraging them to make environmentally beneficial changes and explaining the importance of making the suggested changes.  

We started off looking at finite and infinite resources. We then found out more about infinite resources.

We learnt about levels of formality to ensure our letter was written in the correct tone. Some of us looked at how switching between levels of formality could be used to enhance how persuasive our writing would be. 

We found out more about finite and infinite resources, learning about how we could recognise whether a resource was finite or infinite and also considering the advantages and disadvantages of both.

We learnt about emotive language which proved to be incredibly powerful when writing our letters.

Out of this world

For a Science and English experience, we went to Otford Solar System to explore the scaled model. We were impressed to see just how vast the model was and it helped us to gain perspective on the size of space and distance between the difference planet. 

For our outcome, we wrote and recorded scripts which can be used as a guided tour around Orford Solar System, informing the listeners about the different planets within our solar system.

We started off by looking at the structure of space and defining some of the key vocabulary.

We unpicked features of a script and looked at some of these in even more detail.

We researched our individual planet which provided us with the information needed to write our part of the script.