Writing at Charfield

The overarching aim for English in the national curriculum is to promote high standards of language and literacy by equipping pupils with a strong command of the spoken and written word, and to develop their love of literature through widespread reading for enjoyment.

Writing is essential for communication and expressing ideas. It allows you to explore, inform, explain, entertain and persuade audiences. It can be used to show that you have understood an important concept and is a vital skill to master, whether you are a Historian, a Scientist, a Geographer or an Author!

Our writing teaching aims to support our overarching curriculum core aims and enable children to leave Charfield school able to write and communicate effectively. 

Our Writing Intent

We have designed our Writing curriculum so that our children:

• Develop a life-long enjoyment of writing
• Are able to write fluently so that they can communicate their ideas and emotions to others
• Can develop their vocabulary understanding and use this accurately and in context within their writing
• Are able to write for a purpose, across a range of different genres, both fiction and non-fiction
• Understand the spoken word, use expression and participate as a member of society by speaking fluently and articulately
• Learn the key principles of writing in order to lay a solid foundation for developing their skills later on.

Please click the link below to see CSET's Concept information for Writing. 

Charfield - Writing in the CSET Concept Curriculum PDF

 

Our Writing Implementation

Our Writing curriculum is taught:

• With challenging and engaging writing lessons every day across the school.
• Ensuring challenge for all children throughout the week and support children to develop their writing fluency and stamina.
• With lessons are planned cross three distinct stages:
  • Phase 1 - Initially children are immersed in the context in which they are expected to write, connecting to prior knowledge and adding to tier schema of a particular idea or topic. Vocabulary teaching is explicit during this stage.
  • Phase 2 - Once children are immersed, they will learn specific grammar skills.
  • Phase 3 - Before finally have an opportunity to plan, draft, write, revise, edit and/or redraft a quality piece of writing that allows them to practise the skills they have just learned.
• Through high-quality texts – ranging from picture books to novels. These texts are linked to our key themes across our curriculum which enable children to make connections with themselves as writers and our various states of being i.e. Writing as a historian).
• Focusing on fiction and non-fiction, and a variety of purposes such as to explain, instruct, entertain, persuade or inform.
• Through drama, using role-play, storytelling and discussion to engage the imagination, we immerse the child in the writing experience.
• In every classroom we have English working walls which clearly show the journey of a unit. This allows the children to see which skills they have previously learnt to help them, whilst also clearly showing them what their final outcome will be. Each component lesson clearly builds to the composite learning outcome.
• So children apply their knowledge of phonics to help them spell accurately, and to structure their work.
• So when children leave Charfield at the end of Key Stage 2, they have been taught the fundamentals of punctuation and grammar ready for the next step in their writing journey.
• Using the ELS Spelling for Year 2 and HERTS Spelling for Key Stage 2 to support the development of their spelling.
• Considering children’s structural and technical knowledge is nurtured alongside a developing love for writing as a lifelong means for communication and expressing oneself. 

Our Writing Impact

The impact of the Writing curriculum at Charfield Primary School can be see through:

• Our children’s enjoyment of writing
• The quality of writing within the children’s books, across all areas of the curriculum
• Our children’s ability to write for a range of purposes, across a range of genres, both fiction and non-fiction based
• Our children’s ability to select and use vocabulary to excite, inform or entertain the reader
• Our children’s understanding and use of a range of punctuation, knowing the effect it can have on the reader in both writing and reading.
• Our children’s understanding and use of the various sentence types that can be used to support different genres.
• Our children’s ability to use phonetic knowledge and spelling rules to spell words accurately
• Our children’s ability to speak clearly, fluently and coherently; to be able to listen attentively with understanding, pleasure and empathy and contribute to group discussions effectively.
• The percentage of children working at Expected level or greater across the school as shown on INSIGHT
• The percentage of children working at Expected level or greater at the end of Year 2 and Year 6, when compared to local and national outcomes

Writing displays

Key Curriculum Documents