Implementation

We understand the role reading plays in developing writers and the value of being immersed in high quality literature.

We provide a range of meaningful opportunities to write for real purposes and audiences

We provide access to authors, illustrators and poets so that children can understand the craft of writing in the real world.

We use the Jane Considine ‘The Write Stuff’ approach as our core teaching method, which has modelling at its heart. Each unit begins with a series of lessons combining experience days and sentence stacking chunks – building vocabulary and different sentence structures. In this way, teachers prepare children for writing by modelling the ideas, grammar or techniques of writing. This gives children the confidence to develop their own ideas and vocabulary from modelled starting points, which culminate in an independent final outcome through the process of draft, critique edit and refine. Each child has a book devoted to writing development – this book contains their independent work produced after each unit.

We give time for oral rehearsal at all stages of the process.

KS2 include more opportunities for independent writing which link clearly to whole class writing objectives.

We know the importance of teaching grammar, punctuation and spelling in context to embed skills.

We set high expectations for all our children to take pride in their work and have a fluent, cursive handwriting style. Pupils are taught letter formation and cursive script through the Nelson Scheme.

To help to develop confident, enthusiastic writers who can express themselves in a variety of different styles and across a variety of contexts, writing is often cross curricular and linked to our class topics. This provides our children with regular opportunities to write for a range of purposes and audiences. Writing tasks are specific and meaningful, and often have the purpose to engage children and to illustrate how their writing skills can be applied to real-life contexts.