Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explain how to structure and format a news report about something that happened, templates to plan and present newspaper stories about a personal experience during the summer holiday by collecting notes and writing sentences to answer key questions and a worksheet to edit and correct a news report about what happened during the school summer holiday.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write a newspaper report to record experiences and events that might have happened during the school summer holiday.

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.