Our Intent:
At May Park Primary School, our curriculum ensures that all children have opportunities to write for different purposes. We encourage writing through all curriculum areas and use quality reading texts to model examples of this. We believe that children require high quality speaking and listening activities and role-play session to provide them with the imagination and experiences that will equip them to become confident ‘authors and poets’.
Immersing our pupils in quality literature that reflects the cultural, social, and linguistic diversity of our pupils with books that also provide rich vocabulary, language structures and models will empower pupils to become confident writers.
When writing, pupils:
- Celebrate the achievement of making good progress in their writing.
- Learn to show respect for author’s and writers through choosing and using different writing styles.
- Will experience texts which enable discussions around equality and diversity.
- Show curiosity through their vocabulary and grammar choices and the choice of text type.
- Are creative writers, using a range of texts as a catalyst for developing their own writing style.
- Show resilience throughout the writing process by drafting, editing and publishing their work.
Implementation:
We follow a Mastery approach to English through the programme ‘Pathways to Write.’ Units of work are delivered using high quality texts and children in all year groups are given varied opportunities for writing. Skills are built up through repetition within the units, and children apply these skills in the writing activities provided. Many opportunities for widening children’s vocabulary are given through the Pathways to Write approach and this builds on the extensive work we do in school to provide our children with a rich and varied vocabulary.
Impact:
Assessment in writing is ongoing as teachers carry out in-depth assessment of children’s writing at the end of each unit, and highlight the age-related outcomes that have been achieved. We use these assessments when planning future units of work and to celebrate the progress made.
You will find the end of year expectations for writing, reading and spoken language for each of our year groups in the attached documents. For further detail on the skills that your children are learning on a termly basis, please contact your class teacher.
