This English teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explain and model how to compose newspaper reports to suggest some of the different things that might happen in the next school year.

The class can collect notes and write reports to answer the questions of where, when, who, what and why about something that might happen in the school to publish in a class newspaper.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explain and model how to compose newspaper reports to suggest some of the different things that might happen in the next school year

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to suggest some of the different things that might happen in the next school year, a worksheet to collect facts and information to use when writing a news report about a class prediction about a school event and a template to compose and present news reports about something that could happen in the school.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose newspaper reports to suggest some of the different things that might happen in the next school year.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to identify and illustrate how to structure and format reports using journalistic writing to publish newspapers about things happening in the school. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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