A wolverine is loose in the school office, the timetable is in tatters, and the first day of school is already in chaos. Your pupils are the only ones who can fix it.

This back-to-school SPaG bundle for Years 5 and 6 is a complete story-driven grammar unit built around one connected narrative, with built-in differentiation so every learner can join the investigation. Pupils practise punctuation, irregular verbs, conjunctions, sentence structure, spelling, and editing, all while trying to figure out who brought a wolverine to school.

How to Run It as a Unit:
Day 1: Launch the investigation with the free Urgent Announcement activity. Pupils correct Headteacher Webb’s panicked emergency message to decode what’s loose in the office.
Day 2: Run the differentiated Wolverine Witness Reports. Every pupil corrects witness statements at their own level, piecing together how the wolverine ended up in a locked office.
Day 3: Play the Mystery Game. Pupils apply grammar knowledge and logic to eliminate suspects and uncover Who Let the Wolverine In?
Day 4-5: Work through the Puzzle Pack. Five connected codebreaking missions covering verbs, punctuation, sentence structure, conjunctions, and spelling to reveal the Wolverine Removal Plan.

What’s Included (4 Resources, 9 Activities):

First Day Fiasco! Grammar Puzzle Pack:
Classroom Rules: Punctuation, commas, and apostrophes
Canteen Chaos: Simple, compound and complex sentences
Tattered Timetables: Irregular past tense verbs
Ruined Welcome: Subordinating conjunctions
Interrupted Ice Breakers: Spelling and complex suffix patterns
Wolverine Removal Plan: Assemble the clues to formulate the final removal plan.

Wolverine Witness Reports (3-Level Editing Challenge):
Level 1 (Mr Patton’s Story): Capital letters and sentence boundaries
Level 2 (Witness Statements): Commas, contractions, and possessive apostrophes
Level 3 (The Investigation): Advanced editing with fronted adverbials
Final Task: Inference-based extension to analyse the evidence.

Who Let the Wolverine In? (Grammar Mystery Game):
Suspect board with six suspects and five trait categories
Five grammar clue challenges covering SPaG essentials
Written report extension task

Urgent Announcement (Free Warm-Up Activity):
Capital letters, sentence boundaries, and homophones
Codebreaker reveal to launch the investigation

Perfect For:
Years 5 and 6 SPaG / English
Back to school / Start of term activities
Mixed ability and differentiated classrooms
Literacy stations and carousel activities
Cover lessons / Supply teachers
Fast finishers and extension pupils

Why Teachers Love It:
No prep, just print and go
Editing challenge features three levels of differentiation
Self-checking mechanics give pupils immediate feedback
Rotation-friendly puzzle pack can be completed in any order
Feels like a game, works like a comprehensive grammar unit

Best Value: Buy two, get one free compared to purchasing individually. The complete First Day Fiasco experience in one download!