Glossary
Appearance
A
- Adjective - a word which describes a noun.
- Air Ambulance Pilot - pilots a air ambulance (helicopter) to help medical staff get to patients where other transportt can't
- Author - a person who writes a book.
C
- Camera - a device used for taking photographs
- Camera film - a roll of plastic which is stored inside a camera
- Caption - a word or group of words which label something like a picture
- Character - a person or animal in a story
- Christmas - a special festival for Christians celebrating the birth of Jesus.
- Click - a short press on a mouse
- Collage - a collage is a piece of artwork created by layering different materials together
- Common noun - these nouns name people, places and things, they do not name a specific thing - they do not need a capital letter.
- Community - a group of people who work together to help each other.
- Curious - curious means being interested in something
D
- Describe - when you add detail to something - describing words are known as adjectives.
- Deciduous - these are trees which loose their leaves once a year
- Developed (Photography) - the process of converting the image on camera film into a physical photograph
- Digital - something which is saved on a computer
- Drag - when you hold down using a mouse or touchscreen and move your finger or mouse.
- Duchess - a woman who owns land
- Duke - a man who owns land.
- Dynamics - how loudly or quietly the music is played or sung.
E
F
- Family - these are the people we live and are possibly related to
- Fashionable - something that is popular to wear.
- Feedback - comments or suggestions on how to improve something.
- Fiction - a made up story
- Firefighter -
H
- Halo - a glowing ring around someone's head. This is often seen in pictures of angels.
- Historian - someone who studies and writes about the past
I
- Icon - a person or thing which is regarded of worship
- Illustrator - the person who illustrates a book.
- Incarnation - Christian's believe that God became human in the person known as Jesus.
- Instructions - tell us how to do something.
K
- King - the male head of a royal family.
L
- Layer - when one material is placed on top of another material this is a layer
- Listening - paying attention to what someone is saying
- Lullaby - a gentle, soothing song to help us sleep.
N
- Nativity - the birth stories of Jesus
- Noun - a noun is a naming word - they name people, places or things.
- Numeral - a symbol that stands for a number
- Nurse - a job which helps people feel better when they are unwell
O
- Observe - To use our senses and look closely at something
P
- Paintbrush - a tool that can be used to put paint on paper.
- Pastime - a hobby or something people enjoy doing outside of work or school
- Photograph - A picture made using a camera. They are sometimes called photos.
- Photography - the process of taking a photograph
- Plot - the plot is what happens in a story
- Point of vIew -
- Police Officer - helps to keep people safe
- Poor - being short of money, food, clothing or a home.
- Portrait - a photograph of painting of a person or group of people
- Prediction - making a guess about something we know.
- Proper noun - these nouns name specific people, places and things - these always need capital letters
Q
- Queen - the female head of a royal family.
- Question - a type of sentence that asks the listener for an answer.
R
- Reflections - when you see an image of something in a shiny surface (like a mirror or water)
- Respect - treating others kindly and valuing their feelings, ideas and boundaries.
- Retelling - summarising a story in your own words, highlighting key events and details.
- Risk assessment - a way of thinking about all the possible dangers in an environment and how we can stay safe.
- Rotary motion - something that turns around in circles
- Royal family - a group of relatives who rule a country.
- Rules - expectations to follow that keep us safe.
S
- Safe - something which won't hurt us
- Select - to make a choice on a computer
- Season - Periods of similar weather, in the UK we have autumn, winter, spring and summer.
- Setting - the setting is where a story happens
- Sing - creating musical sounds with our voice that can be a mixture of high and low sounds.
- Speaking - using your voice to talk to someone.
- Special - unlike anything else
- Street - a public road, it is usually lined with buildings and parks
- Success criteria - a list which helps to see if the object does what it is expected to do.
- Superhero - a person who does something amazing and may have super powers.
- Symbol - when something stands for something else. E.g. a heart meaning love.
T
- Tap - a short press on a touchscreen
- Teacher - helps children learn things usually in a school
- Testing - trying something to see if it works so that changes or improvements can be made.
- Texture - texture is the way something feels when you touch it
- Theme - a main idea in a story told through the plot
V
- Victorian era - a period of time when Queen Victoria was the Queen of Britain
- Volume - how loud or quiet someone speaks.
W
- Watercolour - a type of paint that is mixed with water to make it look soft and see-through.
- Water well - a hole which is used to access water from under the ground.
- Water wheel - a large wheel driven by flowing water
- Wealthy - people with lots of money or land
- Winter - winter is the coldest season. It is between autumn and spring