Writing
Intent
At our school, we believe that writing is a powerful tool for communication, creativity, and self-expression. Our carefully designed writing curriculum enables all children to develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to become effective, independent writers.
We aim to provide pupils with a rich and engaging writing journey that is built upon high-quality texts, meaningful experiences, and purposeful opportunities to write across the curriculum. Through carefully sequenced lessons, children develop their understanding of vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, spelling, and composition, enabling them to communicate their ideas clearly and effectively.
Our writing curriculum is designed to:
- Inspire a love of writing and encourage creativity.
- Develop confident writers who can write for a range of purposes and audiences.
- Build strong transcription skills, including handwriting, spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
- Provide opportunities for children to plan, draft, edit, and improve their work.
- Develop a rich and ambitious vocabulary that enhances both writing and communication.
- Ensure progression in writing knowledge and skills from Early Years through to Key Stage 2.
- Enable children to apply their writing skills across the wider curriculum.
- Support every pupil to achieve success through high-quality teaching, targeted support, and appropriate challenge.
Implementation
Our writing curriculum is carefully sequenced and progressively planned to ensure that pupils develop the knowledge and skills required to become confident, purposeful writers. The curriculum clearly maps the progression of writing: grammar, punctuation and spelling from Early Years to Year 6, ensuring that new learning builds systematically on prior knowledge.
Grammar and punctuation objectives are explicitly mapped across each year group and are taught both in discrete lessons and within meaningful writing contexts. This enables pupils to understand how grammatical features and punctuation choices enhance clarity, cohesion and effect within their writing. Spelling is taught progressively and ensures pupils revisit and build upon previous learning while developing age-appropriate spelling knowledge and strategies.
Vocabulary development is at the heart of our writing curriculum. Through high-quality texts and rich language experiences, pupils are taught to select ambitious and precise vocabulary to communicate effectively for a range of audiences and purposes.
To support transcription, we use Letter-join as our whole-school handwriting programme. This provides a consistent approach to handwriting development and enables teachers to model the correct formation, orientation and joining of letters. Clear handwriting expectations are established across the school and are supported by a carefully planned progression document, ensuring that pupils develop fluency, legibility and presentation skills as they move through each year group.
Teachers model the writing process explicitly, under visualisers and provide opportunities for pupils to plan, draft, revise, edit and publish their work.
Impact
Our writing curriculum will achieve confident, creative, and independent writers who can communicate effectively for a range of purposes and audiences. Through carefully sequenced learning, high-quality texts, and meaningful writing opportunities, children will develop the knowledge, skills, and vocabulary needed to succeed across the curriculum and beyond.
By the time pupils leave our school, they will be confident and capable writers who are able to express their ideas clearly, creatively, and effectively. They will be equipped with the skills, knowledge, and confidence required for the next stage of their education and for life beyond the classroom.
