Year 6 – Writing

Harry Potter and the Clapgate Pygmy goats!

To hook the children into the world of Harry Potter, we began our creative context day by sorting the children into Hogwarts houses. The children loved it – they chose an edible witch’s hat and bit into it. The hat then revealed coloured chocolate, which determined their house for the day. The children then took part in workshops such as: wand making, escape room games, playing quidditch and creating potions.

Throughout the term, the children wrote about different genres including, descriptive writing about Hogwarts, making a ‘Wanted’ poster for Voldermort, writing a set of instructions to tell the reader how to make their potion, creating a persuasive advert for a magical wand. In addition, pupils had multiple opportunities to present work in front of an audience to develop their physical oracy skills.

In the final weeks of this half-term, the classes spent time with our school goats (Pablo and Pedro) and made notes about their characters, behaviour and habitat; to increase their knowledge further, children also spent time researching the Internet. The final piece of work was a brilliant non-chronological double-page report of Pygmy goats!

What The Student Says

“I loved making my own wand an imagining the powers it might have! It really helped me to describe my product when we produced the advert.”

“I’m really proud of my non-chronological report – I enjoyed playing with the goats and then researching and writing all about them. It’s made me more confident when being around animals.”

“I struggled to join my handwriting when I started year 6; I now join all the time and I can see how neat my writing is now compared to September.”

What knowledge and skills have been developed?

  • Developed their use of ambitious language.

  • Considered how to structure sentences in an advanced manner.

  • Began to use the full range of year 6 punctuation.

  • Practised their communication and language skills.

  • Gained confidence when presenting in front of an audience.

  • Consistently used joined, neat handwriting.

What the Teacher says

The best thing about writing in the Autumn term is the progress the children make with their grammar and punctuation skills. As year 6 teachers, we encourage the use of ambitious and precise language, expanded noun phrases and being experimental with punctuation so the reader is engaged and entertained. Children, who already knew the story of Harry Potter, enjoyed putting their own twist in descriptive work, and those who were new to the story, were intrigued about describing the wizarding world!

- Miss Holmes and Miss Brennan, class teachers

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