Year 6 Leavers: The Final Chapter

This Year 6 Leavers English Pack has seven ready-to-teach lessons which are fun end-of-year projects covering poetry, instructions and playscripts.

The first four lessons focus on poetry, where your class will perform poems and then write their own to commemorate their time in primary school. Next, in a fun, standalone lesson, your class are challenged to offer advice in the form of instructions to Year 5 on how to have a great final year. Finally, over two lessons, your class will create either a short scene for a play or a filmed scene showing their favourite memory from primary school. The poems, instructions and scenes would all be ideal for use in an end-of-year leavers assembly!

All seven lessons in this complete Year 6 Leavers: The Final Chapter planning pack come with plans, slides and printable resources, providing you with everything you need.

Performing a Poem

This Poems to Perform Year 6 lesson has your class explore, discuss and perform the poem 'Don't Quit' by John Greenleaf Whittier. Your class will use the provided lesson slides to help lead their discussions about the poem They will be challenged to think carefully about the intended purpose of the poem and how this can be portrayed in their performances.

The discussions will include how they can perform the poem well, exploring tone, volume, pace and other elements with the use of a video.

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Writing a Resilience Poem

This fully resourced Year 6 Poetry lesson uses the poem studied in the previous lesson to inspire some of your class's own resilience poetry.

The lesson slides included in the download help to guide discussion and planning their poems, including the collaborative generation of vocabulary that the children can share and use when piecing together their poem.

The printable resources provide you with the suggested methods of extending your class as well as suitable supporting materials to allow your class to experiment and play with their writing as they create their poem.

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Class List Poem

This is an excellent lesson to help you celebrate your class and who they are. The children will help to collaboratively generate words to describe people's appearance, personality and mannerisms. They will then use this to create a list poem about the members of the class.

The included lesson slides for this activity help you to lead a discussion and explain how list poems can be structured. They offer suggestions about how your class's poem can be structured and offer different ways for the children to challenge themselves as they write the poem.

The download for this lesson includes a detailed lesson plan, lesson slides and accompanying printable resources to give you everything you need to create a beautiful poem to commemorate your class's final year in primary school.

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Acrostics

In this final poetry lesson, the children will turn their attention to acrostic poems and think carefully about how they are written using different poetic features. This lesson focuses mainly on the use of enjambment across two or more lines of the poems.

The included lesson slides guide discussion about some example acrostic poems including an abecedarian poem which you can use as a model to challenge your class to write their own.

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Instructions for Year 6

Challenge your Year 6 class to write advice in the form of instructions on how to have a great final year at primary school.

Your class will need to think about their audience in order to write a set of fun and friendly instructions for the upcoming Year 6 class. Why not include their writing in the school newsletter or as a blog on the school website?

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Storyboarding

In this initial playscripts lesson, the children will choose a favourite memory from their time at primary school to turn into a short play scene.

The children will discuss how they can use a storyboard to describe a short scene which can be used in a leavers assembly. They will think about the actors in the scene as well as the dialogue needed to tell the story. Alternatively. Why not have your children storyboard a filmed scene including the shots they will need to film?

This lesson comes with all the printable resources you need as well as a detailed lesson plan and lesson slides.

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Writing a script

This lesson challenges your Year 6 class to turn their storyboards into a script for their short scene.

The included lesson slides ask your class to think carefully about the information a script provides and who needs this information. The children can alternatively write a script for a filmed scene, including the shots needed and how these shots should look.

Please note: these lessons do not cover the rehearsal/filming/editing process but the initial writing is a great way to start an interesting and memorable project for your Year 6 class at the end of their time at primary school.

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