Writing

Writing

Across the Wise Owl Trust, we believe that great readers become great writers and therefore our curriculum is enriched with high-quality, engaging texts. We provide our children with opportunities to:

• Learn spelling, punctuation and grammar in exciting, interactive ways and to apply these skills across the curriculum.

• Be proud of their presentation and handwriting through the award of pen licences and fountain pens.

• Have experience of the full writing process, with opportunities to draft, edit and ‘publish’ their pieces of writing.

• Write for a range of purposes and audiences.

• Write in a wide range of text types including stories, non-fiction texts and poetry,

• Celebrate their success and progress through awards and acknowledgement such as our ‘Writer of the Week’ certificate and end of term ‘Writer of the Term’ trophy.

• Develop a wide-ranging vocabulary through exposure to high-level, broad texts.

• Have regular, purposeful written and oral feedback about their work so that they can progress further.

• Access a wide range of resources to enrich learning, such as ICT, dictionaries, thesauruses, word mats and purposeful classroom displays.

The themed approach of our RESPECT Curriculum provides our children with real purpose for their writing and through being emerged in the topic they are learning about, they are able to apply their wide-ranging knowledge from across the curriculum to what they write. Using ‘Talk 4 Writing’ as a basis means that our children are never short of ideas when it comes to writing! They are taught to imitate, innovate and then invent their own texts with plenty of opportunities for collaborative group work and speaking and listening activities!