Writing

With writing being one of your formally-assessed subjects at the end of Year 6, we have an extra-special focus on it this year, in order to help you to improve as thoroughly and rapidly as possible.

This term, the book 'Rooftoppers', by Katherine Rundell, will form the main inspiration for our writing. 

Rooftoppers is a fantastic novel set in London and Paris at the beginning of the 20th Century. Its protagonist (main character) is called Sophie Maxim and she is found floating in a cello case in the middle of the English Channel after a shipwreck. The book centres on her quest to find her mother, whom she is convinced also survived shipwreck but disappeared without a trace. Helped by her guardian, Charles, and some new friends she meets along the way, Sophie must avoid the authorities and brave numerous dangers as she uncovers a conspiracy that will shake everything. 

Whilst our main pieces of writing this term will be a narrative and a diary, we will undertake other shorter writing tasks that use the book for inspiration as well, such as character studies and book reviews.