Writing
Intent
At Christ Church St Peter’s Primary School, children from Foundation Stage to Year 6 are provided with many opportunities to develop and apply their writing skills across the curriculum. As writers, we intend for pupils to be able to plan, write and evaluate their writing. To be able to do this effectively, pupils follow a writing model of: imitation, innovation and independent application of skills; this gradually builds the independence of our children and supports our driver of initiative. They will also develop an awareness of audience, purpose and context, and develop an increasingly large bank an of vocabulary and grammar. We intend for pupils to leave school being able to use fluent, legible and speedy handwriting. Our genres are progressive and are mapped out to ensure consistency and accuracy.
| Topic & Writing Genre Overview | ||||||
Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | |
| EYFS | All about me | A colourful world | Dinosaurs | Traditional Tales | Growing | Seaside |
Name Writing Labels | Captions Poetry | Narrative (T4W) Postcard/Letter | Narrative (T4W) Recount | Narrative (T4W) Instructions Diary | Narrative Recount | |
| Year 1 | On the farm | GFol | UK amazing spaces and places | People who help us | Space Explorers | |
Poem Labels/lists/captions | Recount Narrative | Instructions Narative Non-Chronological Report Poetry | Narrative Instructions | Recount Narrative | ||
| Year 2 | Explorers | Castles | Australia | |||
Narrative Letter Poetry Diary | Narrative Instructions Poetry Narrative (Quest T4W) Recount | Narrative Non-Chronological Report Recount (3rd Person) Poetry | ||||
Year 3 | Stone Age | London | Active Earth | Italy | The Romans | |
Non-Chronological Report Poetry | Narrative Letter | Explanation Poetry Recount | Narrative Instructions | Narrative Non-Chronological Report Poetry Narrative | ||
| Year 4 | Europe | Sport! | Ancient Greece | India | ||
Diary Narrative | Poetry Non Chron Report Narrative | Narrative Poetry Persuasion Explanation | Narrative Journalistic Poetry Narrative Non-Chronological Report | |||
| Year 5 | Africa | Shake that building up | Saxons & Vikings | Our Planet | ||
Narrative Poetry Discussion Biography | Journalistic Poetry | Non-Chronological Report Narrative | Persuasion Explanation
Narrative Poetry | |||
| Year 6 | The Amercias | WW2 | Crime & Punishment | SRE | ||
Narrative Persuasion Non-Chronological Report Poetry | Debate / argument Biography Recount Narrative | Journalistic Explanation Autobiography | Poetry Narrative Persuasion | |||
We have a clear progression of skills in writing. Each year, teachers will introduce new sentence types to children that they will be encouraged to use in guided and independent tasks.
This scaffolding of the structure of writing is underpinned by direct teaching of punctuation and grammar and is rooted in a clear fidelity to our writing process. There is a progression within language, sentences used and genres taught across the school enabling our children to meet end of year expectations in writing.
Handwriting
We teach cursive handwriting from EYFS and sessions are taught explicitly taught daily for 10 minutes. As with all of our other teaching, handwiriting will be differentiated where necessary and appropriate.
In EYFS and KS1, children will practise their handwriting in the back of their literacy book or use other media. From KS2, children will practise their handwriting in the back of their literacy book.
For those with fine motor difficulties, a variety of media will be used to move from gross to fine (e.g. large pens, chalks outside, paint bags, sand, foam…) All children across school use a pencil to write with. Pens may be used for presentation pieces - please refer to presentation policy.