Writing

At Lakeside Primary Academy, we believe that every pupil has the right to be able to read, write and communicate with others effectively. English is the main medium through which the rest of the curriculum is learned and taught and a major way in which children interpret the world around them, develop knowledge and understanding and communicate with other people. The teaching of English, in all of its forms, has a high profile within the school.

Intent of the Writing Curriculum at Lakeside

We understand that writing is an essential skill and we want our children to become confident writers. We aim to help our children develop these skills in the following ways:

• Provide high quality learning experiences to develop pupils’ competence in both transcription and composition.
• Introducing and deconstructing a wide variety of model texts, covering a variety of genres
• Exposure to and the teaching of high level vocabulary.
• Giving children opportunities to write for authentic purposes and across a range of subjects
• Ensuring children have opportunities to talk about and plan their writing
• A solid understanding of grammar and ability to use it accurately
• Giving children opportunity to evaluate, revise and edit their own work as well as offer feedback on the work of their peers
• To be able to spell, not only the prescribed spelling words but also words connected to the wider curriculum
• Take pride in their work and its presentation, including their handwriting

Implementation of the Writing Curriculum at Lakeside

We teach English as whole class lessons, so that all children have access to the age-related skills and knowledge contained in the National Curriculum. Within lessons all teachers follow a lesson structure and adapts teaching to enable all learners to achieve.  

In writing lessons, we follow Pathways scheme of work to deliver the key skills of the national curriculum. These key skills are taught and repeated; there are multiple opportunities throughout each unit to use and apply the skills until they can be mastered fully. Within each sequence, there are many opportunities for incidental short- burst writing with an extended written outcome built up to by the end of each unit. The ideas and work are pitched at ARE, but there is no ceiling in lessons and higher achievers are given opportunities to extend their writing in a variety of ways, including through showing greater control in their writing, a deeper understanding of the impact that their writing has on the reader and by using a higher level of vocabulary and grammar features.

Cross Curricular Writing 

English is woven throughout our curriculum. Have a look at some examples of writing across Lakeside below.

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