Year 6: My Primary School Story
My Primary School Story | End of Year 6 Yearbook Project
Looking for an end of year writing project that keeps Year 6 writing right up to the last week, and gives them something they'll actually keep?
Over 2 weeks and 10 lessons, students create their own personal yearbook. Each 60-minute lesson teaches one writing skill, then students publish a yearbook page using it. The project finishes with Signing Day, when students swap books and write messages on each other's pages.
Every lesson follows the same routine
Memory warm-up → Mini-lesson → Draft → Publish → Share
Students turn and talk about a shared school memory, you explicitly teach one skill with a model, then students plan and draft in their books or on mini whiteboards. They publish their best version in the yearbook, draw and colour, then swap with a partner or read aloud.
Students write a comic of one moment they'll never forget, a formal report card comment about their primary years, and an interview with a classmate for the cover of the Year 6 Weekly. They zoom in on vague words for a snapshot of the year, and write a letter to their future self, sealed until a date the class chooses.
What's Included?
- 10 ready-to-teach lessons over 2 weeks
- 44 Google Slides with speaker notes
- Modelled examples for every lesson, often weak and strong versions side by side
- A preview of the yearbook page on each lesson opener
- A 19-page black and white printable yearbook
- Two Signatures pages, an Autographs page and a From the Teachers and Staff page
- Signing Day Bingo and a Signing Day run sheet
- Teacher guide with lesson plans, learning intentions and success criteria
- Curriculum links (Australian Curriculum v9.0 and NSW English K–10)
Why Teachers Love It
- Real writing teaching in the busiest weeks of the year
- Students write every day, for a real audience
- A keepsake that goes home with every student
- Works for students who joined the school later, as it isn't tied to one year
- Low prep: print, bind and teach
- A flexible order that fits around end of year events
Resource Details
- Text Types: Recount, reflective, letter, opinion and interview
- Focus: Writing for an audience, precise vocabulary, formal and informal language
- Year Level: Year 6 (Stage 3)
- Length: 10 lessons (2 weeks)
- Time: 60 minutes per lesson
- Format: 33-page PDF plus 44 Google Slides, available to download instantly after purchase
This is a digital resource. You'll get an instant download link by email straight after checkout, and on your order confirmation page.
Yes. Every Hello Primary resource is written by an Australian primary teacher and aligned to the NSW English K–10 Syllabus and the Australian Curriculum v9.0. The curriculum links for this resource are included in the download.
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