Year Five Persuasive Writing: Using My Forest

The 'My Forest' mnemonic;
M - Markers or connectives to shape your writing
Y - Refer to 'you' and 'you're'
F - Facts
O - Opinions
R - Rhetorical Questions
E - Experts
S - Statistics
T - Rule of three (Repeat something 3 times for it to stick in peoples heads)

We've learnt about facts, the rule of three and rhetorical questions.

Task: Please write a paragraph - eight-ten lines or so - to persuade your Mum or Dad to let you go to bed an hour later. Don't forget to combine our persuasive techniques: facts, the rule of three and rhetorical questions. Finished? Check over your work and then annotate it using a gel pen, showing me where you have used the different rhetorical techniques.

Learn more about Persuasive Writing at our pupil wiki

Due: Tomorrow

Feeling clever? Include statistics.

And the School Play 2010 is...

Want to know what West London's Most Creative Preparatory School will be performing for their 2010 school play? Then click here.

Year Five Adverts & Comprehension

Your homework comes in two parts today:
1. Please complete your 'Dragon' comprehension. Don't forget to visit Bald Worm's comprehension blog, http://bit.ly/comprehension

2. Tomorrow we begin work on using persuasive tricks - rhetorical devices - in adverts. Please look in newspapers and magazines and bring in any adverts that use any of the following:
* rhetorical questions
* slogans
* postive language, e.g. Good; great; cool
* facts and figures



Due: Thursday

Year Five Comprehension: Revising Reading the Paper

Please complete the Dragon comprehension.

Don't forget that you can revise 'reading a comprehension' by listening to the Bald Worm Comprehension Podcast

Due: Thursday 4th




Don't forget to read with a pencil & 'mouth' the passage!

Fun Stuff: Mr Paw In Prison

Terrible news! Mr Paw (aged ten) was arrested last night for hunting innocent mice.



A spokesperson for the police said, "We have Mr Evelyn Paw behind bars. The local mouse community can feel safe to go about their business."

Alpha Plus Year Six Noir Videos

Thanks to Mr Churchill, our IT guru, we've been able (finally!) to share our Noir stories! Click and enjoy!

We love to share our writing using video, through our school YouTube channel, FalconsTube.

We're Learning to Touch Type!

Year Six are learning to touch type using Mavis Beacon



Brilliant! These are essential skills for the digital age!