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title: "Year 6 English"
url: "https://stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2023-06-14-year-6-english"
school: "St Barnabas Primary School, A Church of England Academy"
---

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# Year 6 English

  ![](https://files.schudio.com/st-barnabas-primary-school/images/news/DD8E00A4-F9A1-4624-8B92-C3E87A63721C.jpeg)   14 June 2023

Year 6 started work on their detective narrative this week. They have started to analyse conventions of a detective narrative and discussed the use of red herrings, which are intended to be misleading and create more excitement for the reader.

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