Persuasive Report (Keeping Healthy) – Year 6 SATs TAF Evidence

Encourage your Year 6 pupils to produce independent persuasive writing while demonstrating their understanding of healthy living.

This resource focuses on persuasive writing, asking pupils to consider how to keep healthy and to present arguments that will influence their chosen audience. It provides practical tools to assess pupils against the KS2 Teacher Assessment Framework (TAF) for working towards, expected and greater depth standards.

The resource pack offers a structured approach to cross-curricular writing, combining science knowledge, discussion and independent research.

Pupils are guided with success criteria and checklists, while teachers are supported with clear assessment guidance, in line with the recommendation that “pupils’ writing, on which teachers base their judgements, must be produced independently.”

This writing activity works well within a science unit on keeping healthy or the human body. Pupils can select the form of writing – letter, leaflet or report – and apply their knowledge of diet, exercise, sleep and hygiene to persuade others.

It also provides opportunities for cross-curricular learning, encouraging independent research skills and structured planning.

TAF statements covered

Working Towards Standard (WTS)

• Write for a range of purposes
• Use paragraphs to organise ideas
• Use simple non-narrative structures to support the reader (e.g., headings, bullet points)

Expected Standard (EXS)

• Write effectively for a range of purposes and audiences, showing awareness of the reader
• Use the range of punctuation taught at KS2 mostly correctly

Greater Depth Standard (GDS)

• Write effectively for a range of purposes and audiences, selecting the appropriate form and drawing independently on reading
• Use KS2 punctuation correctly and with precision to enhance meaning and avoid ambiguity

Pack contents

• Personal writing skills checklist – encourages pupils to monitor their own progress and set targets
• Keeping healthy persuasive writing checklist – supports pupils in editing independently
• How to Persuade poster – key features of persuasive writing for display
• Parenthesis poster – explains the use of parenthesis
• Keeping healthy images – visual prompts to support research
• Keeping healthy worksheets – record why and how pupils can maintain health
• Planning sheet – helps pupils structure and organise ideas
• Themed writing paper – PDF sheet for drafting the final persuasive piece
• Teacher assessment sheets – track evidence against TAF standards

Suggested teaching approach

Introduce the question “How can we keep healthy?” and explore ideas using discussion, images and worksheets. Pupils will plan their arguments using the planning sheet and checklists, then draft their persuasive piece, applying formal language, cohesive devices and appropriate punctuation.

Finally, they'll review and edit their work independently or in pairs, while teachers assess against the Year 6 TAF statements.

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• Personal writing skills checklist: For pupils to write their own writing checklists to encourage independent editing.
• Keeping healthy persuasive writing skills checklist: A list of features, without modelled examples, for pupils to use as a checklist for editing writing.
• How to Persuade poster: A poster for display, with the key features of persuasive writing.
• Parenthesis poster: A poster to display, explaining how punctuation is used to add parenthesis.
• Keeping healthy images: A collection of images to remind pupils how they can keep healthy.
• Keeping healthy worksheets: A collection of four worksheets for pupils to record why and how they can keep healthy.
• Keeping healthy persuasive writing planning sheet: To support pupils when planning and organising their ideas.
• Themed writing paper: A PDF writing sheet for pupils to use when writing the final draft of their letter.
• Teacher assessment sheets: For teachers to use to assess pupils against the year 6 writing TAF statements. These could be placed in pupils’ books as a record of evidence seen.