Writing
Intent
At Leigh, we recognise that writing is integral to all aspects of life. Children are engaged through an exciting curriculum that encourages them to develop a love of writing. They are provided with opportunities to immerse in the wonders of high-quality texts and use these as models to influence their own writing. Children develop and deepen their oral and written transcription and composition and knowledge and skills. They develop knowledge of adapting language and style for a range of contexts, purposes and audience. Purposeful opportunities and planned for enabling children to apply the skills acquired in writing across the curriculum. At Leigh, we foster a language rich provision, where children practise oral composition to elevate their learning and are confident communicators who express their thoughts and ideas clearly. We value working in partnership with our families to ensure our children achieve their full potential and become 'lifelong learners.' Parent workshops help us work towards achieving this aim.
Intent, Implementation and Impact
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Handwriting and spelling
At Leigh we…
- use the Letter join handwriting scheme to fully join our handwriting
- learn new spelling rules each week and apply them in our writing
- check our work carefully for spelling errors and use a range of strategies to correct them
- support our children to segment, blend and recognise spelling rules.
Vocabulary
At Leigh we...
- challenge ourselves to use interesting and precise vocabulary
- learn new vocabulary every day in our lessons
- have resources in our classrooms to help us expand our vocabulary
- ‘hook’ our children with high-quality texts to help develop vocabulary and inspire a love for reading and writing.
Cohesion
At Leigh Primary we…
- teach how to use a range of cohesive devices to help structure our work
- have writing targets (TAFs) to help us express our ideas in a way that the reader will understand
- make sure we understand the basics before increasing the complexity of our writing
- learn new grammar and ways to vary our sentence structures through what we read
- practise and apply everything we have learnt from the models we study in our independent writing.
Independent writing
At Leigh Primary we…
- build up our writing skills by reading widely and sharing ideas
- practise and apply our new writing skills in short bursts
- ‘magpie’ ideas from the high-quality models that we have been exposed to.
Editing and redrafting
- At Leigh Primary we encourage our children...
- to use purple pens to edit their work so they can clearly see changes
- read back through what they have written carefully to check that it makes sense and to check for errors
- redraft parts of their work to improve the reader’s experience.
Assessment
At Leigh Primary we...
- self and peer assess our writing against specific criteria
- aim to use the age-appropriate grammar from the National Curriculum in our writing
- moderate the standard of our writing across year groups and within our Trust schools and other schools
- respond to verbal and written feedback from our teachers and include it in our writing next time.
