Writing

Writing Intent

At Poplar Farm School, we believe that English skills are vital to our children’s development and future. Our broad and balanced English programme uses objectives from the National Curriculum, determining the skills that each year group and Key Stage must cover. Our writing curriculum aims to develop ambitious and articulate authors through the promotion of a range of authorial styles and genres.
The aims of teaching writing in our school are to develop pupils who:
– Show high levels of achievement, the ability to problem solve, and exhibit positive attitudes towards writing.
– Show their open-mindedness and curiosity by using and understanding the English language as speakers, readers and writers.
– Develop their resilience, confidence and independence when using a range of vocabulary in their writing.
– Have an awareness of different audiences and purposes for writing, including writing to inform, writing to discuss, writing to entertain and writing to persuade.
– Apply their grammatical knowledge in their writing.
– Apply their phonetical and spelling knowledge in their writing.
– Apply these writing skills in all areas of the curriculum.
– Have high standards of presentation in their writing, in accordance with the school’s handwriting policy.