Literacy Tree

🎬 Christopher Nolan has taken on The Odyssey for the big screen. Are you ready to take it on with your Year 5s?

Homer’s epic is retold with simplicity and style by award-winning children’s writer Gillian Cross, and vividly brought to life through Neil Packer’s stunning illustrations.

🌊 Our Year 5 Writing Root takes children on an adventure with one of literature’s greatest heroes, Odysseus, as he battles monsters, gods and mortals on his epic voyage home to Ithaca. 🐍🧜‍♀️⚡

🚨 Reception teachers, have you seen our new Story Sapling? 🚨

Here’s why Anthony thinks We’re Going to Find the Monster by Malorie Blackman and dapo adeola is a must-read… and a must-teach!

“We’re so excited to be creating a new Story Sapling for We’re Going to Find the Monster – a joyful, imaginative and brilliant adventure that invites children to join in, move, wonder, play and write with a real sense of purpose.”

Malorie Blackman, former Children’s Laureate, writes with clarity, pace and playfulness, making this text the perfect choice for EYFS.