INTENT:
At St.Peters, we aim for ALL our children to become confident, fluent writers who are able to use the wide range of writing tools they have accessed and developed whilst on their writing journey with us.
IMPLEMENTATION:
At St. Peter’s we ensure that all children see themselves as a writer. We follow ‘The Write Stuff’ from Reception through to Year 6 with results that we are enormously proud of. The Write Stuff is the work of the teacher, author and education consultant Jane Considine.
At St.Peters, we aim for ALL our children to become confident, fluent writers who are able to use the wide range of writing tools they have accessed and developed whilst on their writing journey with us.
IMPLEMENTATION:
At St. Peter’s we ensure that all children see themselves as a writer. We follow ‘The Write Stuff’ from Reception through to Year 6 with results that we are enormously proud of. The Write Stuff is the work of the teacher, author and education consultant Jane Considine.
- The Write Stuff Click to play video
The Write Stuff brings clarity to the mechanics of writing and provides clear systems through which to focus the writer’s attention.
The combination of fiction and non-fiction units we have carefully selected to follow provide children throughout their journey with the experience of a wide range of high quality texts and authors. In our lessons teachers follow a repeated pattern of ‘Initiate’, ‘Model’ and ‘Enable’ whereby they use the three zones of writing to provide a consistent whole school systematic approach to writing carefully constructed sentences.
The Fantastics offer 9 lenses with which to structure ideas and target children’s thinking. This supports children in developing variety in their writing by focussing on the vocabulary used, initiating ideas, provoking thoughts and igniting imaginations.
The Grammaristics focus on the importance of accurate grammar where tools are taught and used immediately to help children develop fascination around language so that they can manipulate and carefully structure words into sentences
The Boomtastics focus on the art of writing, using a range of literary devices and techniques to make careful choices, playing with language to add flair to our writing and achieve various intentional impacts on our reader, painting vivid pictures through our word choices.
Acquisition of language is of vital importance to us at St.Peter’s and throughout writing lessons we aim to support children in widening their vocabulary, accessing language at least 18 months beyond what they may use naturally. We achieve this through techniques such as ‘Picture Power’, ‘Shades of Meaning’ and focussing on the sentences ‘Intent’.
The combination of fiction and non-fiction units we have carefully selected to follow provide children throughout their journey with the experience of a wide range of high quality texts and authors. In our lessons teachers follow a repeated pattern of ‘Initiate’, ‘Model’ and ‘Enable’ whereby they use the three zones of writing to provide a consistent whole school systematic approach to writing carefully constructed sentences.
The Fantastics offer 9 lenses with which to structure ideas and target children’s thinking. This supports children in developing variety in their writing by focussing on the vocabulary used, initiating ideas, provoking thoughts and igniting imaginations.
The Grammaristics focus on the importance of accurate grammar where tools are taught and used immediately to help children develop fascination around language so that they can manipulate and carefully structure words into sentences
The Boomtastics focus on the art of writing, using a range of literary devices and techniques to make careful choices, playing with language to add flair to our writing and achieve various intentional impacts on our reader, painting vivid pictures through our word choices.
- Jane Considine explaining the FANTASTICS Click to play video
Acquisition of language is of vital importance to us at St.Peter’s and throughout writing lessons we aim to support children in widening their vocabulary, accessing language at least 18 months beyond what they may use naturally. We achieve this through techniques such as ‘Picture Power’, ‘Shades of Meaning’ and focussing on the sentences ‘Intent’.
IMPACT:
Children will be respected as an individual writer, provided with regular opportunities to make individual choices and encouraged to develop their own creativity. Regular practise of key writing skills will provide children with the confidence to apply these in a range of independent situations whereby they have the chance to show what they have internalised. The range of writing experiences we provide will enable all children to alter their long term memory and knowledge more, remember more and be able to do more as writers.
Children will be respected as an individual writer, provided with regular opportunities to make individual choices and encouraged to develop their own creativity. Regular practise of key writing skills will provide children with the confidence to apply these in a range of independent situations whereby they have the chance to show what they have internalised. The range of writing experiences we provide will enable all children to alter their long term memory and knowledge more, remember more and be able to do more as writers.
Reading: All pupils begin their journey of learning to read through daily phonics sessions. Our aim to foster positive attitudes towards books and literature, is by encouraging children to become attentive listeners and reflective readers, library users both in and out of School and book owners. This is best achieved through children regularly enjoying a wide variety of books. Reading scheme books will help children to progressively build up a widening vocabulary of words, and help them to develop the phonic structures to read and write new words, while library books will allow children from an early age to explore new and exciting ideas, and widen their horizons. Parents have a crucial role to play in encouraging children to acquire these skills, by
listening to them read, reading to them, and by sharing stories and ideas together.
We have been following the Read, Write Inc programme to deliver daily high quality phonics and reading in KS1. This is an exciting and significant challenge to raise standards and progress in English throughout the school.
Pupil progress in English is monitored at least once every term by members of the senior leadership team through scrutiny of planning, work, pupil progress meetings and learning walks as part of our on going school improvement plan.
listening to them read, reading to them, and by sharing stories and ideas together.
We have been following the Read, Write Inc programme to deliver daily high quality phonics and reading in KS1. This is an exciting and significant challenge to raise standards and progress in English throughout the school.
Pupil progress in English is monitored at least once every term by members of the senior leadership team through scrutiny of planning, work, pupil progress meetings and learning walks as part of our on going school improvement plan.