Autumn 1 - Year 6

In Year 6 the classes have used Stombreaker by their class author Anthony Horowitz as inspiration for the development of some of their writing. The class explored points for and against Alex Rider taking the MI6 mission and developed their own letters of advice. They explored formal and informal language – applying their formal writing in a letter to Mrs Oliver our chair of governors. They also looked at a range of devices to develop character descriptions: such as interaction, show don’t tell, dialogue, description, use of verbs and adverbs and internal monologue to develop rich character descriptions based on their favourite characters from children’s fiction. They have been working hard on their handwriting and weekly spellings. The children have also revised the identification and development of complex expanded noun phrases. Year 6 have also explored different devices to build cohesion.