Writing

Curriculum statement for Writing at Chorleywood Primary School

At Chorleywood Primary School, we are committed to providing our children with a curriculum that has a clear intention and impacts positively upon their needs.  It is designed to help pupils remember long-term content and integrate new knowledge by coherently sequencing learning so that knowledge is cumulatively secured over time.

National Curriculum Intent          

The national curriculum for reading intends to ensure that all pupils:

Accuracy

Creativity

Style

Chorleywood Curriculum Intent

At Chorleywood Primary, we intend for our pupils to be articulate and imaginative communicators, who are equipped with the basic skills they need to become life-long learners; English learning is key in this. We aim to ensure all of our children develop a genuine love of language and the written word, through a text-based approach; this links closely to the way we teach reading.

We want our pupils to write with confidence and accuracy for a variety of purposes and audiences whilst developing their own individual flair. We want our pupils to be able to write with grammatical accuracy and be able to apply spelling patterns correctly using a neat handwriting style. We aim to expose our pupils to a wide range of vocabulary so that they are able to decipher new words and then use them when speaking both informally and formally.

Careful links are made across the curriculum to ensure that children’s English learning is relevant and meaningful: where possible linking our reading, writing to other subject areas. We ensure that children develop an understanding of how widely writing is used in everyday life and, therefore, how important and useful the skills are that they are learning. We intend to provide a creative curriculum that caters for the needs of all individuals