Writing

Writing

At Shirley Junior School, all children develop their reading, writing and communication skills within our english lessons and across all of our curriculum. We believe that being literate sets the foundations in all subjects and provides children with the fundamental knowledge to reach their full potential.

Writing at Shirley Junior School brings together the teaching and application of writing skills embedded within a wide range of purpose and forms linked to the contexts of our foundation lead projects. Our children are authors and through our writing journeys become skilled at planning, writing, editing and publishing a range of forms for different audiences.

Writing journeys are structured into the four sections. Each section has a clear focus and allows our children to develop both their understanding of purpose and form as well as developing their skills as an author. Explore lessons and the introduction of new skills in the first teach lesson are predominately discussion based and allow our children to use practical resources whilst exposing them to a wide range of examples for writing.

Purpose and forms have been allocated to specific year groups to ensure our children can master different purposes and forms throughout their time at Shirley Junior School. This prepares our children for the writing demands for end of Key Stage 2 assessments and Key Stage 3 learning. Narratives and non-fiction texts are studied in each group with specific elements of the form built up over the year groups.