Year 6 – Writing

Harry Potter and the Clapgate Pygmy goats!

To hook the children into the world of Harry Potter, we began our creative context day by sorting the children into Hogwarts houses. The children loved it – they chose an edible witch’s hat and bit into it. The hat then revealed coloured chocolate, which determined their house for the day. The children then took part in workshops such as: wand making, escape room games, playing quidditch and creating potions.

Throughout the term, the children wrote about different genres including, descriptive writing about Hogwarts, making a ‘Wanted’ poster for Voldermort, writing a set of instructions to tell the reader how to make their potion, creating a persuasive advert for a magical wand. In addition, pupils had multiple opportunities to present work in front of an audience to develop their physical oracy skills.

In the final weeks of this half-term, the classes spent time with our school goats (Pablo and Pedro) and made notes about their characters, behaviour and habitat; to increase their knowledge further, children also spent time researching the Internet. The final piece of work was a brilliant non-chronological double-page report of Pygmy goats!