Intent: Our Vision
Writing within primary school is a vital part of the curriculum as the children will use writing in almost all of their subjects and it gives them a voice to share their ideas with the world.
At Roberttown CE J&I School, we want our children to develop into skilful and imaginative writers giving them an opportunity to express themselves and communicate with others effectively and creatively.
Vision
At Roberttown School, writing is organised around a clear learning sequence where children study and engage with a high quality text, and practise the grammar skills necessary for the genre, before progressing into extended writing and editing. Our writing process is called ‘The Authorial Process’, where children become an author when they write. They gather ideas, acquire the relevant vocabulary, plan, draft, proof-read, redraft and publish.
During their time in EYFS children begin with mark making and then ascribing meaning to these marks, then children will start to learn how to form letters correctly. They will be encouraged to use their knowledge of phonics to write words in ways which match their spoken sounds. (See Reading Subject Rationale for Phonics detail).
As they journey through school, the children will learn the features and characteristics of a breadth of genres, developing banks of vocabulary, grammatical and authorial techniques relevant to those genres and year group, to write effectively and for purpose.
Throughout their years at Roberttown, children will acquire a life-long knowledge and understanding of writing. Over time they will learn greater depth skills to enable them to be proficient writers. These skills include:
- Read as a writer – constantly proof reading and checking for secretarial errors and meaning.
- Write as a reader – noticing the effects the writer creates and the affect and impact it has on the reader.
- Mastering handwriting and spelling.
- Knowing how different sorts of texts are structured, so that, over time, they can create their own structures appropriate to audience and purpose.
- Having a feeling for grammar, varying and controlling sentence structure with ease, in order to create different language effects.
- Being capable of writing at length while maintaining a sense of audience, purpose and organisation.
Children from Year 1 to 6 have approximately an hour English lesson per day. In EYFS, writing is a clear focus during group work and is further developed through areas in continuous provision.
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