Activities in this teaching pack include a table display card to follow a series of steps about how to layout a newspaper page to present a report about something that happened in the school and a template to record notes to answer key questions about a school event.

The interactive presentation gets the children to investigate how newspaper reports are structured and formatted differently from other types of writing and how to research and record notes about a school event to use for the content of a news report.

This lesson is part of a English scheme of work to get the children to plan and write newspaper reports about events that might happen at the school using journalistic language, identify word roots that can be changed by different prefixes and use commas to add fronted adverbials to sentences. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.