"You can make anything by writing."

C.S. Lewis

Our Writing Curriculum Intent:

Throughout a child’s writing journey at The Cambridge, we intend that our writing curriculum:

• Gives pupils the key skills that enables them to develop an enjoyment and pleasure in writing and provide a foundation for their communication throughout their school career and beyond.
• Is interesting, progressive, exciting and purposeful by engaging the children through exciting writing opportunities and equipping them with the skills needed to create innovative and independent written pieces.
• Can inspire children’s minds through literature, fostering positive behaviours and attitudes toward learning, whilst developing our key learning characteristics of being brave, innovative, collaborative and taking ownership.

Our Writing Curriculum Implementation:

At The Cambridge, writing is taught every day. Please see the below table for a break down in how Writing is taught across the week to include writing lessons, handwriting sessions and spelling lessons:

EYFS	30 minute daily phonics Drawing club 3 x per week
Year 1  Year 2	30 minute daily phonic or spelling lessons 60 minute writing lesson 5 x per week 2 x 15 minute handwriting lessons per week
Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6	60 minute writing lessons 5 x per week 2 x 30 minute spelling lessons per week 2 x 15 minute handwriting lessons per week

 

Our writing curriculum is underpinned by a skills based curriculum whereby the skills outlined within the National Curriculum have been correlated with specific fiction and non-fiction genres. These skills and genres are then taught progressively throughout a child’s time at The Cambridge to ensure that they have exposure to a variety of skills and genres.

Writing is taught on a 3 week cycle (Years 1, 2 and 3) following an Exploration, Implementation and Application cycle and on a 2 week cycle (Years 4, 5 and 6) following an Implementation and Application cycle. This gives the children the opportunity to become immersed within the genre, learn the skills that are specific to the genre and aligned with the National Curriculum and then independently plan, write and edit a piece of writing in the genre that they have been learning. 

 

More information about the writing cycle can be found by viewing this document: