Year 5 recently took on an exciting writing challenge, using visual prompts to inspire their own creative stories and apply the literary techniques they’ve been learning this year. One of the images showed a futuristic sci-fi city, sparking imaginative tales filled with vivid descriptions, powerful verbs, and action-packed plot twists. Pupils cleverly used expanded noun phrases, fronted adverbials, and direct speech to bring their stories to life, creating immersive worlds and heroic characters. The second image transported them deep into a mysterious jungle setting, where they focused on building suspense and tension. Writers experimented with sentence structure, sensory detail, and dramatic cliff hangers to grip their readers and create a sense of danger and excitement. It was wonderful to see how confidently they used their Year 5 literacy tools, and the quality of the writing was outstanding. Their creativity, focus, and flair truly shone through in every piece!