WRITING

INTENT

At Covingham Park Primary school, we strive to inspire our children with a stimulating and exciting writing curriculum, where they have a love for literature and the written and spoken word. We want our children to be excited and curious by writing; knowing their writing will have an impact on anyone who reads it. We want the children to have pride in their writing; with legible, neat handwriting and accurate spelling and grammar skills.

Before children learn the craft of writing, we believe in giving children plenty of opportunities to rehearse ideas through oracy and through exploring and play. We also believe very strongly in the editing process to improve; building children’s resilience and determination to make their writing the best it can be.

We endeavour to give children a vast range of experiences and opportunities for writing for different purposes and in a range of contexts, that encourage and develop a love for writing.

Writing Implementation
At Covingham Park Primary School, we understand the importance of reading to support writing and believe that writing is strengthened by developing a love for reading within our pupils. Therefore, we have carefully mapped each topic focus across the year for the whole school with a focus on developing the key reading strategies and skills of fluency and comprehension, as well as developing grammar and punctuation knowledge and the understanding of how to use and apply these in a range of subjects, contexts and genres.

This feeds into the children’s writing by deconstructing a high-quality modelled text for each genre into its format, language, audience and purpose (FLAP) in Upper School and how it looks, what vocabulary is used and who it is for (See, Say, Send) in Lower School. From this, pupils are taught the grammar from the National Curriculum which is taught to correspond to the genres being written as part of the writing process. This ensures they fully understand the different components needed. Our tailored writing journey then ensures we build on this knowledge by giving the children opportunities to plan, write an initial draft with a clear context and purpose and then evaluate the effectiveness of their writing for purpose and audience by editing and finally improving it.   

We believe that pupils who understand the reason for writing, demonstrate flair and effective writing composition, leading to high quality outcomes.