English
Spring 1
Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura
Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura is a picture book about a modern-day boy who accidentally falls into a pit and wakes up in the Stone Age. There, he meets a girl named Om and her family. As they become friends, Om shows him what life was like thousands of years ago—hunting, tool-making, cave painting, and daily survival skills.
The boy learns a great deal about prehistoric life. After a dramatic encounter with a mammoth, he suddenly finds himself back in his own time. Inspired by his adventure, he grows up to become an archaeologist, still remembering the lessons of his Stone Age friend.
Our Writing Outcome: To write a historical narrative
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:
- Form nouns with a range of prefixes
- Use present and past tenses correctly and consistently including progressive and present perfect forms
- Use inverted commas to punctuate direct speech
- Build a varied and rich vocabulary
Our class read continues to be:
Wrong Tracks by Susan Brownrigg
Our end of the day text links to our history topic: The Rainhill Trials. In 1829, a young boy named Edward Entwistle lands a lucky job at the steam-locomotive works of the famous engineers George Stephenson and his son. They’re building a new locomotive to compete in the Rainhill Trials — a high-stakes competition that will decide who runs the first Liverpool-Manchester railway. When strange accidents and sabotage threaten their efforts, Edward and an engineering-obsessed friend, Prudence, team up to uncover who is trying to wreck the engine — racing against time to save the locomotive and the future of the railway.