A Trosnant writer has:
- The ability to write fluently across a range of text types.
- Develop an imagination, which makes readers engage with and enjoy their writing.
- Children are introduced to a wide range of vocabulary and encouraged to use this within their writing.
- Children are taught how to organise and structure their writing, which includes a variety of sentence structures.
- Excellent transcription skills that ensure their writing is well presented and punctuated, spelled correctly and neat.
- A love of writing and an appreciation of its purpose.
- Be able to identify areas to edit and improve my writing with consideration for the effect on the reader.
- Using phonetical knowledge as well as other resources available to become independent writers.
Writing at Trosnant
Our English Curriculum is taught daily across the school. We use an enriched and personalised approach adapted from the HIAS planning format. Each unit has a rich driver that focuses on the National Curriculum Reading, Writing, Grammar and Speaking and Listening objectives for each year group.
Each English learning journey includes:
- Stimulate and Generate
- Capture, Sift and Sort
- Create, Refine and Evaluate
Handwriting at Trosnant
In Early Years, children are encouraged to write using an appropriate posture and pencil grip. Fine motor activities are planned into our curriculum to teach the skills needed to form letters correctly. As the children transition into Year 1, handwriting lessons are taught and by the end of Year 2, children are encouraged to form their letters cursively through the Letter-join scheme in which we follow. This then continues into KS2, where children are encouraged to join their letters together.
Letter-join font is displayed in each classroom and modelled by the adults.
Speaking and Listening at Trosnant
Oracy is an integral part of our English Curriculum and is embedded in each phase of the writing process, as well as across all areas of the curriculum. Children develop the vocabulary necessary to talk about their writing and appreciate the authorial choices made within the writing they are reading, understanding different ways in which sentences can be structured to achieve a desired impact, and are able to make effective choices when composing their own writing based upon this learning.