For world book day this year, year 6 focussed on the text 'The Rabbits' by Shaun Tan. We found this to be a mysterious picture book that raised a lot of questions! To help make some sense of it, we developed a news report. Our students had to work like real journalists to piece together a clear picture of what had actually happened.

This term, in year 6, we have been using the book 'Floodland' by Marcus Sedgwick to guide our studies.

In English, we have been looking at writing our own newspaper reports.

Our students have been working incredibly hard to master the tone needed for a formal report; very different to the stories and poems we have written previously this year! To help us with this, Mr. Daniel Wood, a reporter from the Swindon Advertiser, kindly agreed to visit us and share his experiences as a journalist. He shared his personal journey becoming a writer and also patiently answered the many questions our year 6s had for him.