Autumn 2 in Team LL and AF

In Team AF and LL we have explored fiction and non-fiction. We have been looking at features of historical narrative through reading extracts of Emma Carroll’s Secrets of a Sun King in preparation for next term',s work on the Egyptians. In our work on non-fiction text we have explored biographies. We have explored a wide range of biographies identifying key features. Pupils then carried out research around Guy Fawkes, the Gun Powder Plot and Guy’s gruesome demise. Each child in Year 6 then wrote their own biography of Guy Fawkes. Using the features checklist created earlier in the half term, pupils were able to evaluate their own writing identifying what went well and setting themselves targets for development. During our grammar work, this half term we have looked at a wide range of punctuation including semi-colons and colons. Lots of children are now using these as appropriate within their own writing. We have also been identifying the subject, object and verb within a given sentence and identifying active and passive voice.