Practise your writing to Inform, describe and explain.

Task: You have been asked to go to your Local Primary school to give a talk to their current Year 6 to describe what life in Secondary school is like and to explain to them how to survive the change from Year 6 to Year 7.

Write the speech you will give.


Remember: you are to write as if you are addressing an audience and remember to take into consideration the children who are in front of you and what they might be thinking and worrying about; you are trying to be reassuring!

In your opening paragraph you should introduce yourself and say why you are there. You should give some details about you and what your move from Primary to Secondary school was like.


Useful Phrases:

One of the aspects of Secondary school that you will find different is …
What is also different is …
In your Primary school you will have … whereas in Secondary school you will have to …
You will certainly have to …
I would really recommend that you should … because …
I am sure you will have heard about …
When you start Secondary school, you will notice that …
A really useful thing to know about Secondary school is …
Take it from me, when you go to Secondary school you will find that …
How many of you have thought about … ? Well when you get to Secondary school you will need to …

Your speech needs to be a minimum of 250 words and should be written in paragraphs with a variety of sentence structures. Try to use a variety of punctuation ( ; : ? ! ). To check your work makes sense read it aloud to someone at home.