The teaching of writing relates closely to the teaching of reading and projects through our Cornerstones curriculum. Our writing curriculum has been designed in order to:

• Empower children by giving value and meaning to their mark making.
• Develop the thoughtfulness and imagination of young writers across the curriculum.
• Inspire children’s creativity through the high quality texts and authors studied to support their writing.
• Build children’s confidence through the understanding of manipulating grammar and punctuation within their own writing.
• Develop pride and ownership for presentation of pieces the children have worked hard on and engaged with.
• Support and increase children’s ability to reflect critically, looking at their own, others and authors’ pieces.

Children from Year 1 are also given the opportunity to take part in 'free writes' where they can write freely and explore language, vocabulary, sentence structure and different text types independently.

We have designed our writing curriculum to ensure children move through three phases of writing: an introduction to the writing unit and experiences that link to this, writing with scaffolded support from an adult or whole class shared write, and then a chance to write independently, incorporating everything learnt through the two phases before. We give children real-life purposes for their writing, encourage creativity and imagination, and provide opportunities for writing across the curriculum. Children publish their final pieces in writing portfolios, which then follow the children through the school and showcases their writing journey.