Writing at Petteril Bank

Writing equips children with communication and thinking skills.

Writing expresses who we are as people.

Writing makes our thinking and learning visible and permanent and it fosters our ability to explain and refine our ideas to others and ourselves.

Here at Petteril Bank Primary School we passionately believe in the teaching of high quality writing opportunities, hooking children and allowing them to write for purpose and a range of audiences. Our writing curriculum is designed to embody the National Curriculum and spiral to embed key concepts, including grammatical concepts and the structural components of writing. We build on and refine skills across school and writing is celebrated. We begin our writing journey by exploring the reading phase, where we look at an example text and explore the features of the genre, before moving onto the gathering content phase, where we harvest vocabulary, ideas and features to use in our own writing.

We plan opportunities across the curriculum to ensure that our children are able to write for a range of purposes, audiences and contexts effectively and with increasing confidence.