Our Academy intent is to enable all our pupils to write confidently, clearly and enthusiastically across a range of situations and curriculum areas. Our children will be able to understand the need for developing, organising and communicating their ideas effectively and accurately.

We enable our children:

Talk for Writing is used for how we teach writing across the academy. Children work on 3 week writing cycles, looking at the features of texts, learning how to edit and improve them before writing their own. Additional to this, we use text interrogation to identify all of the key grammatical features in the texts and use these as a base to edit and improve in the middle of a writing cycle. Children use a range of box up plans, text maps and timelines to help support and improve their writing.

Writing lessons

These are planned and delivered through the Talk for Writing (TfW) units. They are based on the ‘Talk for Writing’ (TfW) ethos and structure (below) which enables children to learn the language and structure of a range of genres and internalise them.

Shared and Guided Writing are used as strategies regularly within writing lessons.

Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling is taught through our writing pathway. We interweave it within our teaching of different writing genres so our children can apply it in meaningful ways building on previous learning.

Spelling is also taught discreetly through the specific spelling lessons and interventions for targeted children.