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Swingate's Writing Champions!

At Swingate we really value the children's writing and wanted to share some fantastic examples with you. Each term, one child from each class is chosen to share their work on this page as they have written an incredible piece of writing, demonstrating academic, physical and emotional success! So take a look at our incredible writing champions. We are incredibly proud of their achievements this term and love reading their published work.

Please find below our Termly Overview of Genres to see what writing your child's class are working on this term.

Termly overview of genres 

 

Term 

Week 

Year R 

Year 1 

Year 2 

Year 3 

Year 4 

Year 5 

Year 6 

Term 1 

1 

Learning to Learn 

2 

Portrait painting 

Recount 

Character description 

Setting description 

Setting description 

Diary entry 

Character description 

3 

 

 

 

 

 

Diary entry 

4 

Setting Description 

Story writing 

Character description 

Character description 

 

Story writing 

5 

Poetry 

 

 

Story writing 

Story writing 

Setting description 

Letter writing 

6 

 

Character description 

Instructional writing 

 

 

 

Diary entry 

7 

Writing names 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Term 2 

1 

Character descriptions 

Story writing 

Poetry 

Instructional writing 

Letter writing 

Playscript 

Newspaper report 

2 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Setting Description 

3 

Labelling 

 

Story writing 

Story writing 

 

Poetry 

Story writing 

4 

 

Instructional writing 

 

 

Persuasion text 

 

Letter writing 

5 

Recount 

 

 

 

 

Instructional writing 

Story writing 

6 

 

Letter writing 

Letter writing 

Poetry 

Diary Entry 

Letter writing 

Newspaper report 

7 

Labelling 

 

 

 

 

 

Poetry 

Term 3 

1 

Menu writing 

Letter writing 

Diary Entry 

Letter writing 

Newspaper report 

Letter writing 

Letter writing 

2 

 

 

Story writing 

 

 

 

Story writing 

3 

Speech bubbles 

 

 

Story writing 

Story writing 

Story writing 

 

4 

Fact file 

Character description 

Story writing 

 

 

 

Poetry 

5 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Autobiography 

Term 4 

1 

Recount 

Instructional writing 

Setting description 

Recount 

Balanced argument 

Newspaper 

Letter writing 

2 

WBD 

3 

Character description 

 

Recount 

 

 

Newspaper 

Persuasion text 

4 

 

Story writing 

 

Story writing 

Playscript 

Balanced argument 

Instructional writing 

5 

Comic strip 

 

Character description 

 

 

 

Explanation text 

6 

 

 

 

 

Poetry 

Persuasion text 

 

Term 5 

1 

Life cycle diagrams 

Letter writing 

Recount 

Diary entry 

Recount 

Character description 

Playscript 

2 

 

 

 

 

 

Story writing 

 

3 

Diary 

Poetry 

 

 

Story writing 

 

Diary entry 

4 

 

 

Letter writing 

Fact File 

 

Poetry 

 

5 

Story writing 

Recount 

 

 

Setting description 

 

Character description 

6 

 

 

 

 

 

Fact file 

 

Term 6 

1 

Labelling 

Fact file 

Newspaper report 

Newspaper report 

Newspaper Report 

Story writing 

Balanced argument 

2 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3 

Description 

Character description 

 

 

 

 

Magazine Article 

4 

 

 

Story writing 

Setting description 

Instructional writing 

Letter writing 

 

5 

Instructional writing 

Letter writing 

 

 

 

 

Letter writing 

6 

 

 

 

Character Description 

Character description 

Diary entry 

Leavers Assembly 

7 

Letter writing 

 

Letter writing 

 

 

 

Leavers Assembly 

'You can make anything by writing.' C. S. Lewis