ENGLISH - Research and note-taking

 Year 6 have come straight back in and already working on their first piece of writing for this half term. Our learning journey is taking us back to WW1 with Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse.

To start our unit of work, children are busy researching how animals were used during the war. They have a range of websites to look through and decide on the information they want to include on their non-chronological reports. They will spend time this week researching and compiling their reports. 

A positive start!

















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