Writing

Taking elements of the Talk for Writing approach, our pupils will be taught how to plan, revise and evaluate their writing in every year group. Effective composition involves forming, articulating and communicating ideas, and then organising them coherently. Every child is taught to write as a reader. This requires clarity, awareness of the audience, purpose and context, and an increasingly wide knowledge of vocabulary and grammar. Through the use of high-quality examples, shared writing, discussions and success criteria, our children are taught to fully understand how various text genres are written and do so purposefully across a range of contexts.

Handwriting

At Lumbertubs Primary School, we believe that handwriting and transcription are essential life skills that provide the foundation for successful communication, learning and achievement. We are committed to ensuring that every child develops fluent, legible and confident handwriting, enabling them to communicate their ideas effectively across the curriculum. As pupils become increasingly automatic in their handwriting and transcription skills, they are able to devote more attention to composing, editing and refining their writing.

Our handwriting curriculum follows the Twinkl Handwriting Scheme of Work using the Cursive (unlooped) pathway.  Handwriting expectations become progressively more demanding from Early Years through Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. There is clear whole-school progression, using letter families and moving from physical readiness and letter formation towards fluent, automatic joined handwriting.

Spelling, vocabulary, grammar and punctuation:

Opportunities for teachers to enhance pupils’ vocabulary arise naturally from their reading and writing lessons. As vocabulary increases, teachers show pupils how to understand the relationships between words, how to understand nuances in meaning, and how to develop their understanding of, and ability to use, figurative language. They will also teach pupils how to work out and clarify the meanings of unknown words and words with more than one meaning. This is taught through the Spelling Shed scheme which all children in Key stage 1 and 2 have access to. Pupils will be taught to control their speaking and writing consciously and to use Standard English. It is important that pupils learn the correct grammatical terms in English and that these terms are integrated within teaching. Our teachers consistently model accurate use of Standard English when speaking and writing as well as teaching the specific knowledge and skills children are required to know at KS1 and KS2.