Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to explain how to structure and format a diary entry about a school day, a vocabulary word bank to select time adverbials to indicate when different things happened in a diary text and a template to compose and present a diary recount of a perfect school day.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use vocabulary words and sentence structures to write a diary entry listing some of the events that might happen during the school day.

This lesson is part of an English scheme of work to get the children to investigate how to compose and publish recounts to describe and illustrate some of the special things that can happen in a school. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.