Writing

Writing

Our Writing Curriculum has been designed to help all children at Bishop Lonsdale become passionate and successful writers. We look to accomplish this goal by using the Writing4pleasure approach which is rooted in extensive scientific research to ensure we can enable all children to make excellent progress in acquiring the skills and creativity needed in order to become accomplished writers.

Intent:

• Children learn about the different reasons in which writers are moved to write: to teach, persuade or influence, entertain, paint with words, reflect and to make a record.

• Children learn how their writing can make an impact on the reader through a variety of strategies and techniques.
• Children learn the functions of grammar in their writing and the importance of word choice and vocabulary in their writing.
• Children learn the purpose of punctuation and its importance in helping the reader understand.
• They learn the importance of automaticity and legibility in handwriting and how that enables them to publish work that can be read and enjoyed by others.
• Children learn typical spelling patterns and how words are constructed. They also become knowledgeable about different techniques for learning spellings.

Implementation:

Each year group works through a series of Class Writing Projects over the year which includes fiction, non-fiction and poetry. All children have the opportunity to write daily