Showcasing Writing
Nursery
The children in nursery are developing their fine motor skills to become a ‘child who writes’. Fine motor skill development is encouraged through activities such as threading, building with blocks, picking up tools and early mark making. Gross motor skills are encouraged through activities such as painting, waving ribbons, parachute games, climbing on the climbing frame (strengthening arms by hanging) and activities such as sweeping and digging.
- Photo 1 – threading activity
- Photo 2 – a child painting
- Photo 3 – a child holding a pencil and mark making
Reception
In Reception, the children have been enjoying their new phonic lessons using our new DfE validated Systematic Synthetic Phonics scheme, Essential Letters and Sounds. The children have been learning some of the Phase 2 and 3 sounds and are loving the mnemonics and actions.
Year 1
Children in Year 1 are enjoying reading the Katie Morag stories. Pupils are developing their sequencing skills which enable them to retell the story. Children then use story mapping to retell the story in more detail. Children are aware of how words can combine to make sentences and join clauses using ‘and’.
- Photo 1 – sequencing pictures
- Photo 2 – story map/mountain
- Photo 3 – final piece of retelling of story
Year 2
The children are fascinated by the Stone Age and how the Neolithic people lived. Pupils gather information from a variety of sources, investigate the information, use their developing drafting and editing skills to produce a fact brimming non chronological report about cave paintings.
Year 3
Year 3 are becoming confident writers and developing the sophistication of the sentences they are writing by adding more ambitious conjunctions. The children have learnt about life as an Ancient Egyptian by investigating a text, researching the internet and reading information books to gather facts. They then applied their knowledge to producing a non-chronological report, using more ambitious conjunctions to vary sentence openers and link information together.
- Photo 1- investigating ambitious conjunctions in a text
- Photo 2- gathering facts by researching the internet/reading information books
- Photo 3- final piece of written non-chronological report that includes ambitions conjunctions
Year 4
You can almost smell the spices from the market in Marrakesh when reading the setting descriptions written by Year 4 children. Their use of fronted adverbials showcases the children’s developing skills as writers.
- Photo 1 – child looking at a photograph of Marrakesh markets
- Photo 2 – child completing a fronted adverbial task
- Photo 3 – final piece of setting description writing
Year 5
Children in Year 5 have learnt about the life of Beryl Burton and her cycling achievements. The children were inspired by her determination and wrote a detailed biography. The children were able to make links with their local heritage.
- Photo 1 – child looking at photo of Beryl Burton
- Photo 2 – child reading through information about Morley / Beryl’s life
- Photo 3 – final written biography
Year 6
Year 6 studied primary and secondary sources of evidence from memoirs, newspaper reports, speeches and artwork to find out about the Blitz in the Second World War. They studied events in the sources and this helped them to write a setting description about London during the Blitz using their class novel Letters from the Lighthouse as inspiration.
- Photo 1 – children looking at sources of evidence
- Photo 2 – an example of a child editing work
- Photo 3 – a final piece of writing
