Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explain how to format and structure a letter requesting a school visit to a swimming pool, a template to structure and format a letter requesting a school visit to a football stadium using persuasive language and a worksheet to draft and edit a persuasive letter making corrections and improvements to the spelling, punctuation and sentence structures.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to select vocabulary and sentences structures to use when writing a persuasive letter requesting a school visit to a football stadium.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate and record how to format and structure letters that could be sent to and from football teams for different purposes and functions. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.