15 February 2025

Posted by Claire

Junior & Young Writers: Week 6 - Create and Convince [persuasive writing]

Hi Writers,

Here are the activities and exercises we got up to this week...

Junior Writers

Check in: describe your week as a pair of Glasses.

Indy: multi-coloured frames, very busy

Anna: pink with heart frames - because its valentines week

Henry J: green with musical notes on

Evan: clown glasses

Harriet: half rainbow, half grey

Hamish: where are my glasses? Can't find them…

Elsie: normal looking but 3D

Eddy: purple sunglasses with sprinkles

Henry R: rollercoaster glasses

Juno: stars that change colour and glow in the dark

Reading check in:

Juno: Bunny VS Monkey human invasion

Henry R: Lego book#

Eddy: The trials of Apollo

Elsie: 39 Treehouse

Hamish: Percy Jackson [The Wrath of the Triple Goddess]

Harriet: Lottie Brooks

Evan: 5 nights at Freddies

Henry J: the day we went to see the Queen

Anna: Dave Pigeon

Indy: 12th book of Dork Diaries

Sharing Homework Writing:

Henry R: The Smart Chicken [chapter book]

Hamish: Zines ‘Life in the Robot wars’ book 1

Evan: a scroll. Ship plans. A space pirate ship “The CyberLight”

Game: dancing dragons [alliteration ‘Freeze Frame’ game]

Writing Exercise 1: picture writing prompt

Who is he? Why is he carrying those jars? Where is he going?

Indy: ‘The Guy’ is the head of the Gnomes. He’s going to a ceremony

Anna: ‘Gimbles’ is a doctor. Going to a medicine factory

Henry J: leader of the Gnomes. He’s going into battle

Evan: ‘Mr Bob’ carries stones and plants

Harriet: BFG’s brother, collects dreams in jars

Hamish: ‘Groll’ carries jars for fashion. He’s going to the village

Elsie: he’s a misunderstood person, he becomes a murderer

Eddy: ‘The Jar Man’, he serves the King of the Exiled

Henry R: ‘Sir Pooper’ collects sweets, rocks and snakes

Juno: ‘Grindorf’ collects magical items.

[Image Title: The Jar Wizard]

Writing Exercise 2: The Great Pitch Off

Pitch a made-up product or idea to the group. The group voted whether to buy it or not. The most votes wins.

Juno: A pet kitty-dragon. £20

Evan: The Yeeter - most powerful catapult in the world. 99% off. Now £1.30

Henry J: The taste changing lolly. New surprise flavour every time

Eddy: Air Hotel 3000. 9G WIFI. Free food. Moon - Mars - Venus cruise. £4999pp

Anna: cat bed/cat house [inc food, fence, litter tray] all-in-one

Elsie: Octo-clock. Turns into you, goes to school/work for you. Also burps out snacks.

Indy: The Metal Dragon. Defeats monsters and is really cool.

Henry R: A game show. [Traitors. Kids version] an opportunity to be on TV

Hamish: The Machine. Looks like a radio but is actually a portal… but you don't know where to.

Young Writers

Check in: describe your week as a pair of Glasses.

Daisy: grey glasses

Leo: normal glasses

Poppy: straw drink glasses

Berry: normal glasses

Sonny: googley crazy eye glasses

Ava: kaleidoscope glasses

Chloe: broken glasses, a plaster holding them together

Georgie: a monocle

Catherine: dark glasses - cant see

Reading check in:

Daisy: Sequel

Leo: Skandar and the Unicorn thief

Poppy: The Jewel Plot

Berry: Cream Buns & Crime

Sonny: Oliver Twist & ABC murders

Ava: Animal Farm

Chloe: in-between books

Georgie: Hamilton

Catherine: Beasts & Beauties

Game: dancing dragons [alliteration ‘Freeze Frame’ game]

Writing Exercise 1: picture writing prompt

Who is he? Why is he carrying those jars? Where is he going?

Berry: people kept dying so he makes potions and cures

Catherine: a travelling shopkeeper

Poppy: he steals happy memories. No heart. His armour protects him

Ava: BFG assistant. Keeps brains in jars

Chloe: ‘Geoff’ likes jars & eyeballs [to eat]. Fish shoes

Leo: ‘Gorb’ lives in a valley. Jar salesman [you get to keep the contents of the jar you pick]

Daisy: after battles he collects the organs of the dead

Georgie: ‘Bartholomew’. He is an Island. Fairies live in the jars

Sonny: creative piece, story. Full of mist, moonlight, shadows, and strange glowing jars.

Writing Exercise 2: The Great Pitch Off

Pitch a made-up product or idea to the group. The group voted whether to buy it or not. The most votes wins.

Chloe: life-size pillows of people. Organic silk. Biodegradable. Customisable [send in a picture]

Georgie: a leaf printer. Prints pictures on leaves. Insert tree.

Leo: manure gun. @ LIDL

Catherine: video game app. Teleportation device. Works via google maps

Berry: a nice chair. [includes free pop-up food in arms. Heated. Waterproof]

Sonny: Evil Manifest. Useful weapon

Daisy: automatic food service. Whatever you want, whenever, wherever you are. Pop up.

Poppy: portable instant toilet & loo roll and ‘discretion sounds’ [plus miracle flush’]

Ava: fake phone. Explodes into glitter £19.99

And the winner is… Berry’s ‘nice chair’ [includes free pop-up food in arms. Heated. Waterproof]

this was a really fun week, and everyone did so well at descriptive & persuasive writing techniques :)

keep reading, keep writing.

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