Writing

Writing

How we teach writing

  1. We use the ‘CLPE Power of Reading’  as a guide for choosing the very best books and texts.
  2. We begin a unit of writing with the chance to perform a ‘cold’ write to provide a baseline for the features, skills and style of writing being taught.
  3. We use Talk for Writing to text map and orally rehearse our key text.
  4. Any standalone lessons on grammar, punctuation or spelling have opportunities built in for a ‘skill splat’ where the skill or knowledge is applied to a short piece of writing within the lesson.
  5. We provide effective models of writing, with pre-prepared WAGOLL (what a good one looks like) pieces, live modelling of writing and shared modelling all being used to make thinking as a writer explicit and draw attention to the features, skills and style of writing being taught.
  6. Lessons build cumulatively towards a ‘hot’ write, where children carefully plan, write, edit and publish an extended piece of writing.
  7. Teaching of spelling patterns follows the progression outlined in the ‘Bug Club’ phonics programme until children have completed their phonics learning, whereupon children will follow the ‘Spelling Shed’
  8. We use print for handwriting in EYFS, using letter formations that match those used in our ‘bug club’ phonics scheme. In Keystage 1, children begin developing a pre-cursive script when they are ready, which begins to lead into some joining by the end of the Keystage. In Keystage 2, children learn to refine their cursive handwriting into a neat, consistently joined

Our Writing Curriculum Overview

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To view our ‘Principles of teaching writing’ document in full, please click here.