English – Writing
We have high ambitions for all pupils at Eldon Primary School to become competent readers and writers. We aim for our children to develop a love of reading, writing and discussion. One of our priorities is ensuring that all children are competent readers, and that they enjoy reading for pleasure.
We recognise the importance of nurturing a culture where children take pride in their writing, can write clearly and accurately and adapt their language and style for a range of contexts. We want to inspire children to be confident in the art of speaking and listening and who can use discussion to communicate and further their learning.
We believe that all pupils should be taught the key skills and techniques to be able to communicate effectively in their writing. Our ambitious writing curriculum ensures pupils build upon prior knowledge to master writing and develop their ideas.
The English national curriculum (2014) intends to ensure that all pupils:
- Acquire a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of linguistic conventions for reading, writing and spoken language.
- Appreciate our rich and varied language heritage.
- Write clearly, accurately and coherently, adapting their language and style in and for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences.
- Use discussion in order to learn; they should be able to elaborate and explain clearly their understanding and ideas.
- Are competent in the arts of speaking and listening, making formal presentations, demonstrating to others and participating in debate.
At Eldon Primary we endeavour to create a love for literacy. We want every child to leave our school with the skills of an excellent writer who has the ability to write with fluency and able to embed basic skills in order to widen their knowledge of vocabulary and grammar. This will allow them to develop their writing so they are able to articulate, communicate and organise their ideas for the intended audience and purpose.
- That they have an author’s voice.
- They think about the impact they want their writing to have on the reader and know how they will achieve this.
- Children have a sophisticated bank of vocabulary and an excellent knowledge of writing techniques to extend details or description.
- They can structure and organise their writing to suit the genre they are writing and include a variety of sentence structures.
- Children are able to display excellent transcription skills that ensure their writing is well presented, punctuated, spelt correctly and neat.
- Children are able to re-read, edit and improve their writing so every piece of writing they produce is to the best of their ability and better than the last.
Throughout their time at Eldon Primary, children develop their skills by exploring a whole range of different genres, with a focus on exploring a range of models of excellence and using these to guide the drafting and editing process. It is important to note that we not only develop a real enjoyment of writing in English lessons but in all subjects across the curriculum. We expect the highest standards of writing every time a child writes in any subject.
The Talk for Writing initiative at Eldon Primary School will be driven by the Eldon Writing Strategy to ensure smooth implementation and act as a facilitative model to ensure fidelity and raise standards in writing across school.