Year 6 report on the news!
While learning all about coal mining in history, Year 6 had the go at writing a newspaper report all about the famous incident at Barnsley's Oaks Colliery. We spent our reading lesson learning and reading about what...
Year 5 Reporters…
Year 5 have been exploring features of newspaper reports and leant lots of valuable information. We started off our unit by exploring good examples and picking out the features of them. We then read some real newspapers and discussed the features of them and discussed...
Under the sea…
Year 5 have learnt lots about setting descriptions. We are learning to write a setting description about under the sea. We have looked at what good examples look like and the key features of a setting description. We are then going to be writing our own. [gallery...
Handwriting superstars!
Year 5 have worked really hard this week to develop the presentation of their work. We are trying really hard when polishing our skills of how to join our letters correctly. The presentation this week has been amazing! [gallery type="rectangular"...
Subordinating conjunction experts!
Year 5 have been learning all about how to use subordinating conjunctions to improve their sentences. They have been learning how to change them around so that they come at the beginning of a sentence, in the middle and at the end of sentences. We used whiteboards to...
Victorious Vocabulary!
Today we looked at Kenning poems and tried to discover which animal they were about. We looked at the -er words and tried to play detectives using our knowledge of vocabulary.
Year 3 Literacy experts!
Today, we started our new genre of writing in literacy which are balanced arguments. We thought about the key question 'Should children be on social media?’ After writing down our ideas we had a class debate, we had so much fun putting our points across. This has...
Little Red Riding Hood
This morning, Year 2 have been orally rehearsing our traditional tale of Little Red Riding Hood. We talked about our favourite words and parts of the story which will help us to write our own story. We focussed carefully on the vocabulary to deepen our understanding.
Wonderful writers in Year 5!
This morning we are working so hard to use personification in our writing. We were given a noun which we then had to write a sentence about using lots of different language features including: personification, adverbs, adjectives, verbs and similes. [gallery...
Elsecar Holy Trinity Primary School
WRITING
Intent:
Writing is a crucial part of the curriculum at Elsecar Holy Trinity Primary School. Our core objective is to foster a love of writing and to be able to express their thoughts and ideas with clarity and creativity through the use of a wide vocabulary informed by high-quality reading texts and bespoke strategies. We also intend to create writers who can re-read, edit, and improve their own writing, and confidently use the essential skills of grammar, punctuation, and spelling. We set high expectations for all our children to take pride in their work and have a fluent, cursive handwriting style alongside allowing their imaginations to flourish.
Implementation:
In order to help us to develop confident, enthusiastic writers who can express themselves with confidence and strong vocabulary, we develop very close links between writing, reading and our wider curriculum. This provides our children with regular opportunities to write in a range of styles and for a range of purposes and audiences. Writing tasks are specific and meaningful, and often meet a purpose to engage children and to illustrate how their writing skills can be applied to real life contexts.
Our approach to teaching Writing is through clear, structured, daily Literacy lessons. Teachers use engaging texts and topics to inspire their writing. In each lesson, the teaching of vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, speaking and listening objectives are interwoven so that children have the opportunity to learn these features in context. All lessons build up to a piece of Independent Writing at the end of a unit of work. This enables teachers to assess the children’s writing and inform future teaching needs. Children are given time to plan, draft, edit and improve their written work, using feedback from teachers and peers to support them.
Children learn spellings at home each week and these are tested in school. Spelling rules are taught explicitly at least once per week.
Impact:
The impact of our writing curriculum is sustained progress, learning and transferrable skills across all subjects and disciplines for our children. With the implementation of the writing journey being well established and taught consistently and thoroughly in both key stages, children are confident writers. By the time they are in upper Key Stage 2, most genres of writing are familiar to them, and teaching can focus on creativity, writer’s craft, sustained writing and manipulation of grammar and punctuation skills to suit purpose, organisation, and audience. By the end of Year Six, children will be able to write clearly, accurately and adapt their language and style appropriately. Our pupils will acquire a wide vocabulary and have a strong command of the written word. Most importantly, they will develop a love of writing and be well equipped for the rest of their education.
‘Writing – Long term overviews:
Please find below the long-term overviews for Year 1 to Year 6. These overviews follow a progression of writing purposes, starting in Year 1 with a focus on writing to entertain and inform and building up to Year 6 where children write for the 4 purposes of writing: to entertain, inform, discuss and persuade. Within these units, skills are taken from The National Curriculum and taught alongside the genre to ensure children have an understanding of these skills at a word, sentence and then finally paragraph level.’
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