Writing

Writing Leader: L.Redfearn

Contact: lauren.redfearn@st-albans.doncaster.sch.uk

At St Alban’s we aim to ensure our children enjoy writing, are confident writers and have a deep understanding of the writing process and how to write for different audiences and purposes. Our pedagogy in this subject encourages a thirst for writing and allows for our children to be creative and expressive through a mastery approach.

We offer a diverse and progressive writing curriculum in order for our children in all groups to make accelerated progress to achieve National Expectations or above. We use high quality texts from a range of authors using a mixture of Pie Corbett and texts from the Mastery curriculum with the understanding of our children's prior knowledge and experiences with the intent of further engaging children in the writing process. Our Adventures in Learning curriculum allows us to link writing to the variety of topics we study meaning our children write scientifically, historically, geographically and in many more formats!

Children study a breadth of skills including transcription (spelling and handwriting) and composition (articulating ideas and structuring them in speech and writing). Children are taught how to plan, revise and evaluate their writing as well as an increasing range of vocabulary and grammar in line with year group national expectations.

Take a look at our published writing on our White Gold displays!