Writing

Subject intent

‘All will achieve’

At Kirton Lane, our curriculum is underpinned by our aims to provide all pupils with knowledge and skills in writing that can be applied to the future challenges they are likely to face. We do this by ensuring there is purpose to learning and opportunities for application – demonstrating to our community that they can achieve. Throughout the wide ranging experiences we endeavour to give all our children, it is our determination to encourage their resilience, perseverance, originality, pride and bravery (characteristics that have been chosen by our pupils) particularly in writing. We want our children to aspire to achieve their best, be able to bounce-back from setbacks and learn from mistakes. Writing fluently, competently and appropriately is vital for wider curriculum success and for children’s future roles as active citizens. With this in mind, our writing curriculum is designed to provide quality first teaching and learning to ensure our children achieve their very best.

Our writing curriculum is equally designed to support our pupils to manage their emotions, deal with conflict, solve problems and understand others’ perspectives through their writing experiences. Serving the deprived yet ambitious community we do, we are determined to ensure our curriculum is geared to ensuring equitable experiences for all – ultimately raising the ambitions and opportunities of our Stainforth community.

Implementation

Here at Kirton Lane, we teach writing using a seven-step model. We excite children about their writing through the ‘hook’ stage and then explore in depth the features of the text type they are to write. Through the share, evaluate and revise steps children identify what is good within their draft pieces and identify specific improvements to improve further. This, followed by a final edit, leads to high quality published pieces of writing that staff and the children of Kirton Lane are proud of.

The below pictures show examples of the 7 steps of writing (from hook to publish) from our Year 2 and Year 6 children.