intent

At Queen Mary Avenue Infant & Nursery School our intent is to encourage children to be confident, independent writers by delivering a broad and balanced curriculum for all. At QMA we strive to provide real-life experiences to help ignite children’s curiosity and love of learning and to aid the expansion and understanding of our children’s vocabulary. In EYFS children will learn the basic skills required and will be given opportunities for writing in the continuous and enhanced provision on offer. In Key stage 1 pupils will be taught to apply their writing skills across all curriculum subjects and themes which have been carefully developed around high quality texts.

Implementation 

We will achieve this by:

Providing children with inspiring and engaging first quality teaching building on prior knowledge and learning.

Creating memorable real life experiences to ignite children’s curiosity and love of learning centred around high quality texts.

Planning exciting and appealing Literacy lessons and writing opportunities that motivate children to write at length.

Expanding each child’s vocabulary and further embed their understanding through discussion and questioning.

Drawing on children’s RWI phonic knowledge and making use of strategies learned to help improve spellings in their writing.

Creating engaging working walls which evolve over each unit of work.

Providing a calm and safe learning environment.

Giving weekly opportunities for cross curricular writing.

Enabling pupil collaboration with their peers so that they can develop and improve their skills.

Following the renewed writing policy and lesson structure to ensure consistency across the school.

Completing accurate and consistent writing assessments that help to form targeted interventions for children making limited progress.

Impact 

Through quality first teaching linked to real life contexts, children will develop the skills they need to apply their knowledge to their independent writing and to achieve age related expectations. Through targeted interventions and a whole school focus in writing children will be able to fill the gaps in their learning.