Writing

In our school, the emphasis is placed upon writing having both a genuine purpose and an audience. Writing is inspired by a range of high quality text and engaging experiences such as trips or visitors to the school. Children are taught to write to entertain, inform, persuade and discuss; they may produce writing from a range of genres. There are also regular cross-curricular writing opportunities in science and humanities. Children of all ages are taught to edit and improve their own work and that of their peers. From the earliest age, children are encouraged to develop their writing stamina in order to produce longer pieces of work. After a sequence of structured, teacher-supported lessons, children are given the opportunity to write independently, with older children exercising some degree of choice over subject matter and / or genre.

Our writing journey 

The writing journey at Moor End ensures that all genres and aspects of writing are covered. We have mapped this out comprehensively and can be seen for each year group by looking at the year groups below:

The Teaching Sequence

To plan our units of work we follow the reading to writing Teaching Sequence:

1. Creating interest/hook the pupils in

2. Reading and analysis

3. Gathering content

4. Planning and Writing

5. Presentation/intended outcome