Writing
At Emley First School, we strive to ensure that high-quality education in English will teach our pupils to speak and write fluently so that they can communicate their ideas and emotions to others. We want to ensure that, through their reading and listening, others can communicate with them effectively. Through every key stage and year group, we aim for our children to develop their vocabulary, understanding, are able to write in a range of different genres and continuously develop their spelling, grammar and punctuation skills. In addition to this, we aim for our children to understand the spoken word, use expression appropriately and participate as a member of society fluently and articulately.
To enable our children to write effectively and coherently, we teach from the National Curriculum. Teachers plan discretely and also encourage writing across the curriculum, ensuring children can transfer skills seamlessly, noting the purpose for writing across a broad range of subjects. To aid the development of confident writers, we are strongly committed to developing a reading culture that involves students, staff, parents and the whole community. Underpinning this is a 'book focus approach'. Books used within English can have a cross curricula link to Topic or Science, allowing children to use vocabulary and knowledge across a range of subjects (this is at word, sentence and text level). When developing their independent and imaginative writing skills, children at Emley First School are encouraged to plan, write, edit and reflectively improve their work. We aim for our children to leave us with a good knowledge of vocabulary that they can use correctly within context and in their writing, demonstrating stamina and writing which flows and is interesting to read! Scaffolding and modelling is pivotal in all of our classrooms so that children can see their teacher's model writing and reading on a daily basis within a range of lessons. Our planning enables teachers to plan, engage and develop learning across the whole curriculum. Links are made between the written and spoken language, as well as spelling/grammar rules and handwriting development being taught discretely.
At Emley First School our children will progress from Reception to Year 5 and leave us for their next phase of education being able to:-
- write for a range of purposes including diary entries, persuasion, story to name a few.
- use their vast knowledge of vocabulary to excite, inform or entertain the reader.
- understand a range of punctuation and the effect it can have on the reader in both writing and reading.
- understand and be able to use a range of grammatical devices.
- understand the various sentence types that can be used to support different genres.
- spelling using their phonetic knowledge and spelling rules put in place.
- to speak clearly, fluently and coherently, to be able to listen attentively with understanding, pleasure and empathy and contribute to group discussions effectively