Writing

Intent

Writing

Our writing curriculum is designed to provide a broad and balanced education that meets the needs of all children. We follow the award-winning Ready Steady Write from Literacy Counts to develop confident, independent and successful writers with high aspirations. Our writing curriculum is research-informed and impact-proven, carefully designed to support all children to master the foundational skills and write for a clear audience and purpose. Through the use of high-quality, vocabulary-rich texts, we provide exciting and meaningful reasons to write. Children are immersed in literature and taught to craft their writing with precision, using a range of pedagogical approaches, including sentence accuracy, modelled writing and shared writing, as well as regular opportunities for editing. We value spoken language as a foundation for writing. Through structured talk, drama and vocabulary exploration, children learn how to organise and express their ideas clearly before writing them down. Our aim is for every child – regardless of need – to write fluently and take pride in their work. We want our pupils to leave primary school as enthusiastic writers, ready for the next stage of their education.

Implementation (Overviews)

Early Years

Writing in EYFS involves transcription and composition

-articulating ideas and structuring them in speech, before writing). Language comprehension (necessary for both reading and writing) starts from birth. It only develops when adults talk with children about the world around them and the books (stories and non-fiction) they read with them, and enjoy rhymes, poems and songs together.

Lesson Design

Daily Sentence Accuracy is a vital element of Read Steady Write and encompasses word, sentence, and punctuation from the statutory National Curriculum programme of study for writing and Vocabulary, grammar and punctuation. This daily practice also helps build fluency and stamina for writing.

After the Daily Sentence Accuracy, the lessons follow the immerse, analyse, plan then write sequence.

Within each lesson, children explore, enjoy and respond to the text in different ways; through teacher led, teacher modelled, shared activities, partner work and independent parts of the lesson.

Impact

How do we know what children have learnt

Literacy Counts draws upon a range of current assessment information, including statutory National Curriculum requirements and research to provide us with a comprehensive assessment resource. Through assessment and moderation, we will gain a thorough understanding of the progress and attainment of pupils, thus identifying gaps in learning and informing planning.

Children write confidently and ably for a wide range of purposes demonstrating both understanding and enjoyment of writing. Pupils show sound knowledge of all year group National Curriculum objectives in reading, writing, spelling, grammar and punctuation. Children showing Great Depth qualities to their writing are able to write using all of the above showing richness, flair and finesse.

Ready Steady Write Texts: Progression from Reception – Y6
Year Group	Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
REC	The Something	Star in the Jar	Juniper Juniper	Little Red	The Extraordinary Gardener	The Storm Whale
1	Old Bear	Rapunzel	Hermelin	While the Wild Things are	The Secret of Black Rock	The Last Wolf
2	A River	The Night Gardener	The Bog Baby	Grandad’s Island	The King Who Banned the Dark	Rosie Revere, Engineer
3	The Iron Man	Fox	The Rhythm of the Rain	Jeremy Button	Egyptology	Into the Forest
4	The Whale	Leaf	Arthur and the Golden Rope	The Lost Happy Endings	The Journey	Manfish
5	When we Walked on the Moon	FarTHER	The Hound of the Baskervilles	The Promise	The Lost Book of Adventure	King Kong
6	Rose Blanche	A Story Like the Wind	On the Origin of Species	The Way of the Wolf	Shackleton’s Journey	Hansel and Gretel