WRITING
It is our intent at Yohden Primary School to provide children with a high-quality education in English that will teach pupils to speak, read and write fluently so that they can communicate their ideas and emotions to others effectively. At Yohden Primary Schools writing is a crucial part of our curriculum. All children from Reception to Year 6 are provided with many opportunities to develop and apply their writing skills across the curriculum. We support all children individually to improve their writing skills by providing age appropriate and ability appropriate learning opportunities.
When writing in EYFS, we intend for children to be able to retell, plan and begin to write a story. In KS1, we intend for children to retell, plan, write, edit and redraft their writing. To be able to do this effective texts have been carefully chose to allow the children to orally retell them with effective speaking and listening skills as seen in the Pie Corbett Talk for Writing approach. In KS2, we intend for our children to be able to plan, write, edit and redraft their writing. To be able to do this effectively, children will focus on developing effective transcription and composition skills. They will also develop an awareness of the audience and purpose of a piece of writing, along with an increasingly wide knowledge of vocabulary and grammar. We also intend for children to leave school being able to use fluent, joined and legible handwriting.
SPELLING
Intent
At Yohden Primary School, we are committed to the delivery of excellence in the teaching of spelling. We intend to teach the pupils; spelling rules that can be applied to unfamiliar words, how words can be related, the use of the effect of adding prefixes and suffixes, to know the origins of words and how words that sound the same can have more than meaning.
