Oak

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Autumn Curriculum Map 2024 Y5 and Y6.pdf

Year 6 class information Sept 24.doc

Our topic during the Autumn term will be...

'Victorian Visionaries'

This term the children will be exploring the Victorian era and what life was like during this time period. We are especially looking forward to our trip to Perlethorpe where the children will experience what life was like for Victorian children.

This topic promises to provoke many questions from the children as they develop a good understanding of what it would have been like to live in Victorian England.

Our key class text for this half term will be:

'Gaslight' By Eloise Williams

It's 1899 in Cardiff and Nansi lives a life in the shadows. After her mother mysteriously went missing, Nan survives by thieving and taking part in fraudulent stage shows under orders from Pernicious Sid, the Empire Theatre's ruthless owner.

But with a love of books and her best friend Bee keeping her strong, Nansi is determined to find out the truth about what happened to her mum - even if it leads her into real danger.

Gaslight is a fabulous ride, full of heartstopping moments as Nansi's fearlessness gets tested to the limit.

With Dickensian characters and a brilliantly realised atmosphere, young readers will be transported into another world - there's nothing sanitised about Eloise Williams' take on Victorian Cardiff. Children and adults alike will be unable to stop tearing through the pages, just as desperate as Nansi to find out what's really been going on in those gaslit streets…

In Year 6, we will be basing most of our writing on this excellent Victorian time period story.