Writing
Intent
Our writing curriculum enables children to build confidence and widens the repertoire of writing options for pupils. It helps them gain an understanding of the whole piece that they are writing. It enables them with the organisation of their ideas and cohesion between them is strengthened. Our writing curriculum also uses rich texts to help embed ideas and encourage reading in all areas of the curriculum. We have a clear focus on dictation and transcription through all pieces of work.
Implementation
Throughout each unit of work, children take part in 'hook' lessons which introduce the topic, lessons which allow them to develop a rich vocabulary and develop their grammatical understanding, after which they are able to produce their own pieces. Modelling is at the heart of our writing lessons, and they are broken down into bite size chunks, this enables children to succeed when they do their own independent writing. Everything is visual and vocabulary rich which helps support all learners be successful with writing and children become excited to write. By the end of each unit, the children develop the skills that enable them to write with flair and creativity.
Impact
We aim for all children to understand how to apply sentence scaffolds to their independent writing as they develop their expertise and there is clear progress for this right from the earliest writers. Standards in writing have improve and will continue to improve because many worked examples are provided over the year. Children will have a clear view of what a high-quality piece of writing looks like and they know how to improve their writing and make it more focused.
See the links below for each year group medium term plans:
Please click the link below for the writing sequence for Fiction and Non Fiction:
Longhill Primary School Writing Sequence
Longhill Primary School Long Term Plan 2025
HCAT writing purposes and forms
Longhill Primary School Writing Progression
Longhill Primary School Composition Progression Document
Year One Writing OverviewYear 2 Writing Overview
