Writing
National Curriculum Guidance
“English has a pre-eminent place in education and in society. A high-quality education in English will teach pupils to speak and write fluently so that they can communicate their ideas and emotions to others, and through their reading and listening, others can communicate with them. Through reading in particular, pupils have a chance to develop culturally, emotionally, intellectually, socially and spiritually. Literature, especially, plays a key role in such development. Reading also enables pupils both to acquire knowledge and to build on what they already know. All the skills of language are essential to participating fully as a member of society; pupils who do not learn to speak, read and write fluently and confidently are effectively disenfranchised.”
Our Intent
Our intent is that the teaching of Writing will:
Ensure that children are challenged, encouraged to take risks and view mistakes as a positive part of the learning process; all children, including SEND can access writing through the provision of appropriate scaffolding, support and writing tools. We celebrate writing at each stage of the learning process and across school to encourage children to take pride in their work and have high expectations of themselves.
Ensure all of our children become confident and independent writers; by providing opportunities and tools that children need as writers to develop stamina, be able to write at length and know how to plan, draft, re-draft and evaluate their work as well as carry out an effective edit and improvement process using feedback from the teacher. Give children the opportunities to share their writing with the school community.
Inspire our children to develop into articulate and imaginative writers, who are well-equipped with the basic skills to flourish into life-long learners by building on a range of skills as they work through each journey of writing. Exposing them to the written word from a wide variety of cultures and languages across the curriculum to foster an understanding of the power of writing.
Ensure careful links are made across the curriculum so that children’s English learning is relevant and meaningful: where possible linking our reading, writing and the topic that we are covering in History and Geography. We aim to produce functional writers who can meet the challenges of everyday literacy with confidence.
Ensure all of our children develop a genuine love of both spoken language and the written word through a text-based approach. Understanding how writing can make a difference and can be a vehicle for change through developing functional writing skills for life. Understanding that the delivery and performance of writing can make our work accessible to all.
Our Implementation
The key areas of implementation we use are:
- Planning documents
- Progression map
- Long Term Plan
- Medium Term plans
Flow Chart
The flow chart serves as an overview of how the subject is taught to ensure consistency in the following areas:
- Lesson structure
- Assessment
- Learning environment
- Resources
- Metacognitive scaffolding including knowledge organisers
- How we enhance the curriculum e.g. visits, celebrations, theme weeks
Impact
At St Oswald’s we see our children flourish through the wide-ranging curriculum to provide them with. We strive for the whole curriculum to be exciting, engaging and for all children to feel a sense of success.
In Writing, we aim for the impact to be:
- Children make good progress.
Children enjoy writing. They take pride in their pieces of extended writing. - Children’s writing improves dramatically across the course of the year as they follow the key objectives from the planning.
- Children reflect upon each piece of writing, and share it on Seesaw which allows them to take pride in their work and see where improvements could be made.
- Editing is a strength in our writing, with clear additions and revisions made in each piece of developed writing.