Our Intent at TMS in writing is that children:
- have the confidence to write, through well developed phonic and spelling knowledge, a well taught pencil grip and letter formation to encourage stamina for writing.
- write through a motivating and varied STAR learning experience which gives the children the chance to write for range of contexts, purposes and genres that are organised into 4 main areas: writing to inform, writing to entertain, writing to persuade and writing to discuss. All areas of writing and genres are laid out with a progression of grammatical features.
Writing is implemented by:
- by understanding it is an integral part of our daily STAR curriculum.
- using English curriculum books to record our learning, so that the writing is contextualised and children are able to see their own progress.
- learning grammar by it being explicitly taught as a continual expectation when writing across the school and is supported by games and activities to reinforce the learning.
- maintaining a high standard in basic skills. We expect children to be correcting spelling and grammatical errors through marking and feedback.
- tasks being planned and sequenced over a unit, developing each aspect of that genre before putting the whole piece together.
The impact of learning in writing is assessed by:
- formative assessments including half termly, independent writing assessments.
- EYFSP, KS1 SATS, Y3/4/5 termly NfER assessments (grammar and spelling) and in the end of KS2 SATS.
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