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 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 place oracy at the heart of our teaching and learning approaches for writing through performing stories, articulating their ideas orally before writing and acquiring a wide range of vocabulary that is captured through a range of texts.
To build children’s narrative and non-narrative storehouse through learning texts off by heart and performing them.
To explicitly teach children how to read as a reader and read as a writer.
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.
To provide varied opportunities for children to write for a wide range of audiences and purposes.
To equip children with the writing skills to flourish across the whole curriculum and life beyond primary education.