Writing

Our Rolling Program for Writing shows how we cover fiction, non-fiction and poetry over a two year cycle. We use Literacy Tree to teach writing.

Literacy Tree English Policy Statement.pdf

Literacy Tree

The books that are chosen help children to grow ideas and expand their minds. Literacy Tree only choose significant and important children's literature to create the book-based resources. The writing units allow children to write for a purpose with a clear audience in mind.

We aim to instill a love of writing in our children, and to ensure they are able to express their thoughts and ideas clearly and creatively through the written word.

Our approach enables children to imitate the key language they need for a particular topic orally before they try reading it and analysing it. Through fun activities to help them rehearse the tune of the language they need, followed by shared writing to show them how to craft their genre.

Assessment

Assessment is viewed as building a picture over time of a child's learning progress across the curriculum and is viewed as an integral part of teaching and learning.

Assessment for learning (AFL) and Visible Learning underpin all learning. A variety of feedback is used to inform the pupils about their learning so that they become more involved in their own learning and from this gain confidence in what they are expected to learn and how to progress it further.

Both formative and summative assessment is used to gather evidence. Some examples of this maybe:

Summative:

End of KS 1 and KS2 SATs

Y1 phonics screening

EYFS Early Learning Goals

Reception Baseline check

Formative:

Accelerated Reader screening

Phonics screening (Read, Write, Inc)

Spelling

Pupil Retrieval Practices include:

KWL grids, quizzes, concept/ mind maps, questioning, success criteria, learning intentions and pupil targets.

Whole School Tracking and Progress

We use iTRACK which is the online pupil tracking software that uses powerful data analysis to track pupil progress and attainment in real time.