Wirksworth Junior School
Writing
Writing at Wirksworth Junior School
"If there's a book that you want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." Toni Morrison
Curriculum Intent
At Wirksworth Junior School, our writing curriculum aims to develop pupils’ understanding of and confidence in using writing key skills, enabling them to write independently for a variety of audiences and purposes within different subjects.
Our school motto is Creative. Caring. Curious. We make every moment count.
Through analysis and discussion of high-quality model texts, children will learn how to ‘read as writers’ and ‘write as readers’, demonstrating their curiosity about writing and enthusiasm for discovering rich, ambitious vocabulary. Our children will reflect on and strive to improve their writing throughout the drafting, editing and publishing process. Most importantly, we aim to promote a love of writing using creative, engaging ‘hooks’ and meaningful contexts that give purpose to what our pupils are writing. As a result, this will encourage them to develop empathy, take creative risks, care about and take pride in their writing.
Talk for Writing
Throughout Wirksworth Junior School, we use elements of the ‘Talk for Writing’ method of teaching English (Pie Corbett).You can find our long-term plans for writing below.
Progression in Writing Key Skills
Rainbow Grammar
To improve our knowledge and understanding of sentence grammar, we teach writing and applying clause/sentence types using Rainbow Grammar. Please see the below document for an overview of this from Jason Wade.