Writing at Widden

At Widden Primary School, we strive for our children to be able to express themselves creatively and imaginatively through their writing. When children leave Widden Primary School they should be well-prepared to read and write confidently for a range of purposes and audiences. Diversity, community and integrity are at the heart of our ambitious curriculum and the texts have been chosen to offer a complex and rich education, which enables all children to identify within the context of these texts.  The curriculum includes progression for the teaching of SPAG, designed to ensure that SPAG skills match the focus genres efficiently.  Focus genres show coherence and complexity and allow for optimal spaced retrieval. We have a focus genre for each term which allows children to be fully immersed to gain the knowledge and skills of an independent and creative writer. 

We carefully plan the substantive knowledge that our children will experience within each genre, this knowledge is continuously revisited throughout the curriculum to ensure a broad and balanced understanding. Disciplinary knowledge is modelled through the rich texts and high quality modelling to enable our children to be the writers of the future. All learners, including those with SEND are considered within writing sessions, being adaptive and using GAP analysis ensures that teachers plan and deliver high quality lessons for all children. 

By using the following documents, it ensures that teachers plan effectively for our children. 

Writing Skills Progression:

This document shows the progression of key skills that need to be taught. It gives teachers examples to support their planning. For a child to be judged as working at the expected standard, a pupil’s writing should convincingly meet all the bold statements within that standard.

Narrative Progression & Non-fiction Genre Progression

There are two separate documents – one that covers narrative and another that covers non-fiction genres. They establish the progression of language features that should be seen in a given genre at each year group.