This Talk for Writing English unit celebrates the beauty of the natural world – inparticular the areas of our planet which are frozen (the North and South Poles). The innovation stage will look at other areas of our world which are wonderful and how some animals have made remarkable adaptations to survive in the world’s harshest conditions.

This Talk for Writing English unit focuses on introducing children to thewonders of the nocturnal natural world. It lends itself to a wide range ofwriting focuses to help embed the writing skills that children have alreadybegun to develop while also demonstrating additional skills.

Through discussion and creative writing, this Talk for Writing English unit aimsto build children’s understanding of the problems with plastic so they start tothink about what they can do to stop plastic damaging our world.

This Talk for Writing English unit aims to engage children in becoming effectivewriters about something they care about. Many children are fearful of insects.This unit is designed to build children’s understanding of how important andfascinating insects are while honing their descriptive and instruction writingskills.

This Talk for Writing English unit aims to engage children in reading, talkingand writing about bees. The unit focuses on the crucial part bees play inpollinating many of the foods we currently rely on to survive and involves thechildren in creating an environment in which bees can thrive.

Children are usually fascinated by how caterpillars turn into butterflies and bythe beauty of butterflies so, they are a great way to help children value thenatural world and become interested in protecting it.

This unit aims to build children’s understanding of how interesting, beautiful and essential rivers are so that they can write about them effectively. It is also hoped that they will want to seek them out within their locality and help to create a world that looks after rivers and the plants, trees and creatures that reside near them.