Writing

At Osbournby through careful structured teaching of phonics, spelling, handwriting,
grammar, vocabulary and genre we strive for every child to leave our school with the
confidence and ability to write to inform, persuade or entertain.

We teach writing through a clearly defined teaching sequence that begins with cold writing to find out what the children already know. These pieces are also provide independent examples of writing for the purposes of assessment (including statutory assessment in Y2 and Y6).

Examples of the text are studied to unpick the key features and a shared success criteria is built. A number of strategies might be used to develop ideas and vocabulary including drama, images, films and oral rehearsal of sentences. Teachers will model writing and may use slow write to hold the hand of the writer at the point of write. Children are taught how to edit and improve their writing with ‘purple polishing pens’ through a number of strategies including peer/partner editing and editing stations. Sometimes (but not always) children will be required to produce a final finished piece of
presentation quality.