Intent

At Intack, to ensure that all of our children see the purpose for writing and become the most confident, skilled and enthusiastic writers they can be, we strive:

To develop learners' abilities within an integrated programme of speaking, listening, reading and writing.
To provide a broad and balanced curriculum that is delivered using adaptive teaching to recognise the varied needs of our children, allowing all children to make progress.
To provide a robust curriculum that builds on prior learning and develops mastery of writing skills.
To provide opportunities for children to be immersed in a range of texts, both narrative and non-fiction, to enable them to acquire an understanding of a range of text types and genres
To place oracy at the heart of our teaching and learning approaches for writing through performing stories, analysing texts through drama-focused activities, articulating their ideas orally before writing and acquiring, rehearsing and applying a wide range of vocabulary that is captured through a range of texts.
For our children to have an interest in vocabulary and the confidence to explore word meanings to develop a growing vocabulary in both spoken and written forms.
To build children’s narrative and non-narrative storehouse through learning texts, or extracts from texts, off by heart and performing them.
To explicitly teach children how to read as a reader and read as a writer for a range of different purposes
To provide sufficient time for children to gather and orally rehearse ideas for writing using a collaborative approach, allowing children to innovate known stories and to invent their own stories.
To scaffold the writing process through modelling the acts of a writer.
To provide children with the opportunities to write stories and non-fiction texts independently using known stimuli and ideas that have been gathered using a collaborative approach.
To explicitly teach children how to proofread and edit their own writing, orchestrating a range of independent strategies to self-monitor and correct.
To provide varied opportunities for children to read and write for a wide range of audiences and purposes with confidence, fluency and understanding.
To provide opportunities for children to interrelate the requirements of English within a broad and balanced approach to the teaching of English across the curriculum with opportunities to consolidate and reinforce taught English skills
To equip children with the writing skills to flourish across the whole curriculum and life beyond primary education.

We strive for our pupils to be a 'Primary Literate Learner'.