Writing
At Hillhouse, we teach writing every day, using exciting, high-quality books to inspire and shape our learning. Children develop their writing step by step, with grammar, punctuation and spelling taught naturally within meaningful contexts. Creativity and imagination are at the heart of everything we do, and rich vocabulary is introduced, practised and built upon throughout each unit. Children write a wide range of text types each term, which are carefully assessed using our own assessment framework. Our ultimate aim is for every child to feel confident, proud of their work, and to develop a genuine love of writing!
INTENT
At Hillhouse Primary School, it is our intention to provide pupils with a high-quality education in English that will develop pupils' ability to speak, read and write with great fluency. We intend that pupils master the processes of both reading and writing, in order to develop a love and a true interest for English.
Writing is an integral part of our curriculum. All children from Foundation Stage to Year 6 are provided with many opportunities to develop and apply their writing skills across the curriculum. It is our intention:
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that pupils develop a clear understanding of the writing process in order to establish themselves as an author in their own right.
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to build their knowledge of writing for context and purpose, giving children opportunities to explore a variety of genres
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to develop their knowledge of genre features, audience, language and effective composition
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to immerse children in vocabulary-rich learning environments, using high-quality texts
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to ensure new curriculum expectations and the progression of skills are met across the school
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to develop a love of reading, creative writing and purposeful speaking and listening
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for pupils to learn how to understand the relationships between words, word meaning, implied meaning and figurative language within writing lessons
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for pupils to be taught to control their speaking and writing consciously and to use correct Standard English
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to develop fluency and comprehension in reading from the onset of primary education, so that our children are confident and enthusiastic readers by the end of KS1.
Our English curriculum is derived around a sequence of high-quality age-appropriate texts. We use each of these to: create opportunities to develop reading fluency and comprehension with a focus on key reading strategies and skills; develop grammar and punctuation knowledge and understanding to use and apply across the wider curriculum; explore the writing structure and features of different genres; identify the purpose and audience; plan and write an initial piece of writing with a clear context and purpose before evaluating the effectiveness of writing by editing and redrafting before publishing.