Persuasive writing by 5G

In Year 5 this week we have been looking at persuasive writing. We wrote letters to the CEO of a fast food chain, encouraging him to make the food at his restaurant healthier. Below is an extract from Jessica's letter. We hope you enjoy it!

Dear Mr Hover,

                         I am writing to you to encourage you to increase the amount of healthy food on your menu. At the moment, there is nothing healthy on it, you even add sugar to your salads and bread buns! People want to make healthier choices and you can help them to do that.

Excess sugar is very harmful to people's health and your food offerings contain far too much. Sugar can cause diabetes, tooth decay and obesity. Do you care at all about your customers? Your food must change for their benefit. Surely you can see how necessary it is to change your menu and offer your customers a healthy choice?

Persuasive letters concerning the playground graffiti (6F)

This week in 6F, we have been continuing our debate about the graffiti in the playground. Is it art? Or does it set a poor precedent of condoning illegal acts? Here's the beginning of Viet's persuasive letter:

Dear Miss Heywood,

The purpose of this letter is to detail why we should take the horrendous playground graffiti down. I strongly believe that this atrocious painting in the gazebo is vandalism on the innocent gazebo walls. The thoughtless criminal, who has needlessly ruined the wall, should, with no regrets, be served up some justice. Here’s why:

Firstly, it is no ordinary ‘artwork’ it is illegal! (Illegal means that you do something without the right permission). Although a majority of people think it is art, in reality, it is really just glorified vandalism. If fact, 6/9 of the school voted that it is unacceptable to torment our adored gazebo like this. Do you really think that illegal graffiti is suitable in a school?