Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explain how to structure and format a letter for a specific purpose, a worksheet to evaluate strengths and weaknesses for both academic and personal abilities to use when composing letters to a new teacher and a template to format and structure a letter to a new class teacher to outline targets for improvement in the new school year.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compose an introduction letter to a new class teacher to aid transition into a new school year.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to practise composing and publishing letters to different members in the school community for a range of functions and purposes. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.