For Pupils

Writing

This Writing Strategy has been written in order to explain how we teach writing at Gresham Village School and Nursery.

Underpinning the pedagogy behind it, are the following key principles:

Children learn to write well, if they read well and are exposed to high quality texts.
In order to write fluently, children need to master the skills of handwriting, spelling and punctuation. These skills need to be taught in a sequential way from Early Years.
Children need to write frequently and in a range of text types in order to build up the stamina and grammatical control required to write purposefully, quickly or at length.
Writing should not just take place during the writing lesson. Children need to apply their writing skills across the curriculum.
Children need to learn to evaluate the success and accuracy of their writing, if they are to improve.