Writing across school
Our school offers pupils a language-rich learning environment, with its foundations built around oracy, which aides and supports children’s understanding and development of language.
In Key Stage 1, children have regular opportunities to develop skills in basic writing, with a focus on handwriting, letter formation and basic sentence structure in addition to their daily Read, Write Inc session.
In Key Stage 2, children have regular opportunities to write, in which they extend their understanding of grammar and punctuation, reading and analysing texts, planning, writing, reviewing, editing, redrafting and presenting.
Children are taught to assess the effectiveness of their own writing; this enables children to strengthen their understanding of expectations and strive to achieve learning objectives and targets.
Aims
At Mackie Hill we aim to:
- Nurture positive attitudes towards writing so pupils enjoy writing and do so for a range of purposes and audiences
- Develop pupils’ literacy skills to a level that, as a minimum, adequately prepare them for the next stage of their education
- Use writing skills consistently across the curriculum