Year 5/6 Apology Letter Example Text (using Little Red Riding Hood and other fairy tale characters)

An apology letter written from the Big Bad Wolf to Little Red Riding Hood outlining his sorrow for eating Riding Hood’s grandma and the measures that he will be taking to make up for this heinous act.

I have used a similar text in recent years with my Year 6 children as a model text to inspire them to create their own apology letter from the villain in their favourite story to the corresponding hero. These have resulted in letters from: Darth Vader to Luke Skywalker; Bilbo to Gollum (a little backwards but nevertheless worked); Cruella De Vil to Roger (from the 101 Dalmatians) and many more. It is a letter-writing task that children engage with more than any other in my experience as it can be based on a favourite story and it is also more than appropriate to include some subtle humour within the piece, which the Greater Depth children revel in inserting.

This particular example text contains all the punctuation taught in KS2 and can therefore be used to model appropriate use of these punctuation marks if necessary, especially for Greater Depth students who will pick up on this readily. The vocabulary is at points stretching for an average Year Six child but is in no way unreachable with a dictionary to hand and a basic level of inference (which this text could be used to encourage).