Summer 2 - Year 6

Year 6 have quite literally been up to their eyes in chocolate this half term. The classes have been reading a range of non-fiction texts to find out about the process of chocolate manufacturing from ‘bean to bar’. They have then used their research to plan their own explanation texts thinking carefully about their target audience and adapting the formality and content of their writing as appropriate. They have also explored features of diary writing and read a wide range of famous diaries including one from Howard Carter. In lessons, they have developed their control of tense within their writing to ensure that as writers they can maintain consistency and move from past to present tense as appropriate within the genre. More recently both classes have returned to narrative writing. They have been reading a range of text extracts containing flashbacks and engaged with a video stimulus called ‘German in the woods’ to act as a starting point for the children to develop a shared narrative with a flashback. Team LL and AF then  developed their own narratives with a flashback. Throughout the half term they have continued to enjoy the adventures of Stanley Yelnats in their class novel Holes.