Activities in this teaching pack include a set of writing templates to structure and format a news report containing information about an event that happened in the school such as a summer fayre or a storm causing a flood to answer the key questions of when, where, who, what and why.

This teaching pack can support development in planning and writing a non-fiction text using the correct journalistic writing to describe different events with answers to key questions organised into paragraphs.

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.