‘You can make anything by writing.’ – C.S. Lewis
We write to share our thoughts and opinions, to entertain others, to escape from reality and to make a difference in the world. Writing embeds our everyday lives and we often use this skill to record our learning across the curriculum. We are adventurous, creative and imaginative writers and we know that our voices can make a difference in the community and the world beyond.
Throughout Foundation Stage and KS 1, we develop our early writing through RWI. This provides distinct writing opportunities to improve our confidence and enhance our love of writing. Across the school, distinct genres are taught in each year group but children are given opportunities to write in a wide range of other genres across the curriculum. Where possible, our writing links to other areas of the curriculum or the particular guided reading book we are studying. We write for a range of purposes and audiences and by the time we leave Key Stage 2, we are equipped with an extensive vocabulary. Each class has a specific set of writing targets that encompass the whole writing curriculum. These carefully build on prior learning and extend their writing skills and knowledge.
The writing curriculum is supported by the RWI spelling programme and the Twinkl Cursive Unlooped handwriting ‘Steps to progression’ which can be viewed below.
Year 1
Class One had a slightly different writing lesson today making jam sandwiches for our instructions topic #y1writing
We have really enjoyed planning our stories this morning #y1writing
Class One have been learning when to add s and es to different nouns or naming words #y1writing
We have been reading information texts and identifying the key features #y1writing
We enjoyed acting out the part of the story where Jack steals from the giant in Jack and the Beanstalk! #y1writing
Year 2
Class 2 have been busy writing their own shape poems this morning. #y2writing
Class 2 have been performing shape poems with expression this morning. #y2reading #y2writing
Class 2 have been performing their rhyming couplet poems to their class mates this morning. #y2writing #y2reading
Class 2 have been performing rhyming couplet poems using expression and actions. #y2reading #y2writing
Class 2 have been exploring Sunny’s suitcase to try and predict where he is going next on his journey. #y2reading #y2writing
Year 3
Class 3 being excellent partners whilst using thesauruses this morning during English #y3writing
We worked so hard on our human sentences learning how to rearrange clauses in our writing #y3writing
Class 3 achieving their OPBs writing their letters to Santa #y3writing
We are working hard on our spelling rule adding my #y3writing
Class 3 working hard using dictionaries in English #y3writing
Year 4
We are SOOOOOO proud of our joined handwriting and spellings this morning #y4writing
We’re enjoying acting out one-another’s playscripts . There are some scary Cyclopses around! #y4writing
These two are determined to tick off their writing targets! What great independence 🤩 #y4writing
We’re enjoying reading and acting out playscripts this morning #y4writing
We’re using pictures and actions to help us talk throughout diary writing #y4writing
Year 5
Class 5 enjoyed being in the hot seat this morning. We thought about how our characters would feel throughout our narrative #y5writing
Class 5 enjoyed creating freeze frames to help plan their non-chronological report #y5writing
Class 5 enjoyed sharing their recounts with the class today #y5writing
Class 5 are working hard in English this morning to punctuate relative clauses #y5writing
Class 5 using freeze frames to generate ideas for dialogue #y5writing
Year 6
Class Six writing their fantastic free verse poems about school. #y6writing
