Writing Genre Long Term Plan
Autumn
Genre
Recount
RECEPTION
(Focus
Teacher led Recount/description
activities)
Sentence structure
YEAR 1
YEAR 2
Spring
Genre
Recount
Senses Autumn
Ourselves
Recount
Card writing
Link to
Winter
Weather
Farms
Mother’s Day
Easter
Summer
Genre
Lists descriptions
Link to
Fruit and Vegetables
Story
Story
Houses and homes
Jack and the Beanstalk
Minibeasts
Healthy Eating
Newby Hall
Fantasy Worlds
Super Hero
Food, seaside
Seaside
Letter card writing
Christmas
Narrative
Poetry
Recount
Stories with familiar
settings
Stories with repeating
patterns
Toys
Weather
Toys
Toys
Information texts
Narrative
Poetry
Recount
Houses and Homes
Traditional Tales
Winter
Thwaite Mills
Poetry
Recipes/instructions
Recount
Narrative
Descriptive
Poetry
Recount
Outdoor learning
“Bear Hunt”
Explanations
Dictionary work
Narrative
Stories from Asia
Instructions
Non chronological
Instructions/labelling
Letters
Narrative
House building
Transport
Transport
Transport
Transport
Non chronological
Chronological
Instructions
Poetry
Castles
Castles
Castle making
Outdoor learning
Poetry
Riddles
Recount
Skipton Castle
Story Writing
Magic Key Stories
Narrative – adventure
mystery
Newspaper reports
Instructions
Reports – information
texts
Poetry
Persuasive writing
Ancient Egypt
Play scripts
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt
Moortown
Letters/persuasion
explanation
Diary
WWF
Butterflies/life cycles
Allotment
Limericks
Moortown
Non chronological
poetry
Keeping safe
butterflies
Narrative
Poetry
Letters
Instructions
Non-chronological
Year 3
Link to
Traditional tales
Recipes
Chronological
Biographies
Traditional tales
Myself
History topic
History
Recipes
Geography around the
world
DT
History
Victorians
Narrative settings
Narrative Characters
Fables
Victorians
Victorians
Poetry
Reports
Guy Fawkes Night
Victorians
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
Biographies
RHBay
Myths and Legends
narrative
Instructions
Reports (newspaper)
Recount
Invaders and Settlers
Reports and
explanations
Diary writing
Persuasive writing
Letter writing
Rainforests
Sea Poetry
Explanations
Creative story
RHBay
RHBay
Doctor Who
Paragraphing and
VCOP
Christmas theme
Narrative settings
History
Journalistic writing
Bedd Gelert Lulu
Ancient Greece
WWF endangered animal
Narrative myths and
legends
Stories from other
cultures
Discursive writing
Diary writing
History
Poetry
Dancing Bear
Biography
History
Instructions
Recount
DT/History
Murton Part visit
Non Chronological
reports
Recount
Persuasive
Malham
Malham
Instructional writing
biography
Explanation
Water cycle/rivers
Persuasive Letter
writing
Fairgrounds
Leeds Carnival
Ottobeh
Summer Fair
poetry
History
Play scripts
Film narrative
Narrative character
and setting
Diaries/settings
History
Remembrance Day
Book “What the
Ladybird Heard”
Tudors “Rogues Gold”
Explanation
Mountains
Oakwell Hall
Non-Chronological
reports
Narrative Settings
Play scripts
Newspapers
Macbeth Theatre
Macbeth Theatre
Persuasive leaflets
Biography/Recount
Personification poetry
Instructional writing
Bonfire Night
DT Cam Mechanisms
Poetry/Imagery
Recounts
Endangered
animals/mountains/space
Frozen in time
Fly Away
Mountains/Space
Sculpture/Hepworth
Gallery
Sculptures
Mussorgsky sculpture
Dialogue
Time slip narrative
Tom’s Midnight
Garden
Christmas (Scrooge)
Comic Strips
Easter
Narrative Character
plot
Pancake day
Invaders and Settlers
Murton Park
Allotment
Local area/rainforests
WWFund link
endangered animals
Ancient Greece
Diary – setting and
recount
Discussion
Victorian now and
then
Now and Then
Diaries
Letters
Marrick
Marrick
Play scripts
Chronological Reports
Year 6 Play
Our time at Highfield
leavers Assembly