For 7 weeks, year 5 have been looking at two genres within English. Both of these genres were based around ‘The Hound of the Baskerville’ a classic Sherlock Holmes story. The children have enjoyed reading some of the original text alongside a graphic novel version. The first genre, a cliff hanger narrative, produced the absolute best writing we have seen since the start of the year. Yesterday, the children were faced with a new genre – a formal event report. This is a tricky concept due to wanting to ‘tell the story’. It takes a different style of writing… all I can say is WOW! The children completed some in pairs, with really in depth discussions and they finished the piece independently. The reports I read were absolutely fantastic. I’ve attached some examples below…