Leigh Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School
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English: Subject Leaders- Mrs. T. Nice & Mrs. R. Rothwell Languages, Well-being and Inclusion Curriculum Team Writing Intent: At Sacred Heart we intend to promote writing and look for ways to inspire and motivate pupils so that they can become confident, enthusiastic and competent writers. Children learn to write to communicate meaning to a wide range of audiences. They recognise writing as an important life skill. Implementation: Teachers use the ‘Talk for Writing’ approach to plan inspiring and meaningful writing activities for the children. They establish the purpose and audience for writing and make teaching objectives explicit to pupils so they know why they are studying a particular text type and what the expected outcome will be. Units of work will be based around a model text. Model texts will be exciting, interesting and inspiring and will include all of the language features that are being taught. They will provide a basis for creating a toolkit. The toolkit will give children the skills they need to become successful and independent writers. Teachers use shared and guided writing to model the writing process. These provide a context for discussion and demonstration of grammatical features and sentence structure. These features are also discussed and practised during KS2 spelling, punctuation and grammar lessons. Children carefully plan their work and are given time to write independently. Their work is marked by the teacher and then, children are given the opportunity to respond to feedback. Children use a purple polishing pen to edit and redraft their work, and as a result consolidate improvements in writing. At Sacred Heart, we have high expectation for the presentation of children’s work. Handwriting is taught so that children use the correct letter formation from the very beginning of their time in school. As soon as the children are ready, they are taught to hold a pencil in the correct tripod grip and develop a legible and joined handwriting style. It is expected that all members of staff, class teachers and teaching assistants, model the school handwriting style when writing on the board or in children’s books. By the end of Key Stage 2, all children should be displaying an efficient, neat, joined legible handwriting style that is effective in recording their ideas. Spelling is taught within the English lesson or as part of a skill-based lesson. Teachers provide a wide range of contexts for reinforcing spelling patterns and tricky words throughout the school day. All teachers use phonics materials based on Sound-write as a basis for their planning for the teaching of spelling.
IMPACT: Children can:
Updated February 2023 |
