Our Vision for Writing
At Eye CE Primary School, we endeavour to create a love of writing. We want every child to leave our school with the skills of an excellent and enthusiastic writer who: has the ability to write with fluency; can think about the impact they want their writing to have on the reader and knows how they will achieve this; has a sophisticated bank of vocabulary and an excellent knowledge of writing techniques to improve their writing; can structure and organise their writing to suit the genre they are writing and include a variety of sentence structure; takes pride in their presentation and ensures that their writing is grammatically correct and a writer who edits and improves their writing to the best of their ability.
Pathways to Write
At Eye C of E Primary School, we follow a whole school mastery approach to writing through the programme Pathways to Write. Units of work are adapted and delivered by our teaching staff using high quality texts and children in all year groups are given varied opportunities for writing. Skills are built up through repetition within the units, and children apply these skills in the writing activities provided. Many opportunities for widening children’s vocabulary are given through the Pathways to Write approach and this builds on the extensive work we do in school to provide our children with a rich and varied vocabulary.
Each Pathways to Write unit covers a range of areas in the national curriculum:
This process follows three stages:
The Gateway (1-2 lessons)
The Pathway (10 lessons)
Writeaway (4 lessons)
Once a writing unit has been completed within a year group (this takes approximately 4 weeks of a half term), our teaching teams moderate writing outcomes with senior leaders who then support in planning a shorter subsequent writing unit that responds to any emerging needs of a class. This writing time is also used for promoting writing for pleasure.
An Overview of Pathways to Write
Below you can find our school's individual year group long term overviews for English. Every text on these documents have been chosen for a reason which you can see annotated in green. The aim is that by the end of primary school, our pupils have been exposed to a broad variety of texts.