Reporting on an alien landing
Police Cordon off the crash site
Reporting on an alien landing
Pupils look for clues
Reporting on an alien landing
Nursery pupils take notes
Reporting on an alien landing
Brainstorming with year 3
Reporting on an alien landing
Pupils write their articles
Reporting on an alien landing
Sharing with parents at the end of the day
Reporting on an alien landing
The world's biggest newspaper (well, almost)
Reporting on an alien landing
Broomwood Primary School in Altrincham, Trafford, organised a staged writing opportunity to involve all pupils in a one-day writing adventure.
Staff and community volunteers mocked up a spaceship crash site in the playground and had all pupils act as investigative journalists with the task of reporting on the event.
At the end of the day, the whole school had contributed to a giant newspaper on the event and ultimately a new, termly school newspaper was launched.
Downloads
- Full case study
- Guide to planning your own reporting event
- Teaching sequence for Foundation Stage
- Teaching sequence for Key Stage One
Taking it further
Downloadable units of work to further explore newspaper writing.
Primary examples
- Reporting from the dinosaur dig
- Writing about local history
- Active writing day
- Reporting on an alien landing
Secondary examples
Writing schools
Macaulay CE Primary School’s Everybody Writes Day - Pupils and parents celebrate writing for one special day