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Dear Year 6 Parents,                                                                          September 2020

Welcome to the Autumn Term in Year 6. Mrs. Gomersall and I are looking forward to the new term and we have already planned many activities for the children.

Firstly, a few practical…

YEAR 6                                                            SPELLING                                AUT 1 WEEK 1

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Can you write a letter to Mrs Molyneux and use your powers of persuasion to convince her that ‘Times Table Rock Stars’ is a worthwhile application for school. Remember to use your knowledge and understanding of the features of persuasive writing.

WAGOLL

The story ends suddenly. Poor Douglas is dead and Slam is left with the ghost! What happens next?

Does Douglas become a real ghost?

The other ghost has tried to frighten Slam before and failed; what does it do now?

What will Slam do now that he has lost his brother who used to work and…

Read the extract again from our guided session and write what happens next.

I would like you to imitate Alan Garner’s style and his use of powerful verbs and adjectives.

This assignment needs to be approximately three hundred words.

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Someone has been stealing puppies from your town at night. You and a crack team of investigators (concerned people from the neighbourhood and your friends) have decided to figure out the crime when the police couldn’t. What do you do and how do you solve it?

For this piece of writing I would…

Can you describe this image? Use all of your language skills to create a poem with four verses.

Please include the following: a simile, a metaphor and personification.

Create atmosphere and aim to include effective vocabulary.

WAGOLL

Is graffiti art or vandalism? In many countries, it is a crime to paint on walls and street artists can have problems with the police. In other countries, street art is permitted in certain places. For example, in Taiwan, there are ‘graffiti zones’ where artists are free to paint and write on…

Imagine that you have just won the lottery and can buy your dream house.

Write a detailed description of your ideal home, using prepositions of place, to give to an interior designer. You can either limit this to one or two rooms, or design an entire house. You must use at least ten…

Can you use modal verb constructs to create emotive poetry? Modal verbs are useful for expressing and exploring personal feelings. Look at the following poem by Emily Dickinson as a starting point:

If I can stop one heart from breaking,

I shall not live in vain;

If I can ease one life…

Can you write a character description for one of the following characters: Emil Tischbein, Mr Grundeis, The Professor or Gustav?

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Mr.Grundies

Mr.Grundies (the man in the bowler hat) is a mysterious man. He wears black and has a jet black hat…

Now that we have studied explanation texts. Can you write your own about an electrical item you might find in a home. Remember your key features.

WAGOLL

How does a kettle work?
When you plug the kettle into an electrical outlet, a large…