Writing Development Plan
2015 - 2016
Subject Leaders: Sally Walsh & Samantha Robert
Our vision is SUCCESS FOR ALL
‘Success for All’
We achieve through the highest of expectations encouraging all to attain excellence. We learn together as a community through inspirational
experiences. Our teachers are caring and dedicated and prepare our children with the skills to succeed as life-long learners and leaders of the
future.
Stockingate Mill Junior School is characterised by its core values and high expectations for pupil achievement and personal development.
Dedication: We work hard
Aspiration: We aim high
Co-operation: We work as a team
Inspiration: We are excited about our learning
Key Objectives for 2015 - 2016
Autumn 1
To plan an engaging, exciting and accesable writing curriculum for all pupils.
Autumn 2
To closely monitor the progress of all pupils in writing.
Spring 1
To launch BIG Writing throughout school.
Spring 2
.To monitor and assess the impact of BIG Writing and VCOP within school.
‘Success for All’
Action
Lead
All classrooms to display
stimulating resources to
promote a positive
learning environment –
including examples of
good writing and
presentation skills.
SLT
Pupil’s to have pride in
their work through
promotion of wellpresented work.
SLT
Start and
Deadline
Date
September
2015 – Ongoing
Milestones
Teachers to enable pupils the opportunity to write
with a range of stimulus and purpose.
Monitoring
Learning Walks.
Keep classroom displays current with pupil’s written
work showing a range of topics/subjects.
September
2015 – Ongoing
Prizes to be awarded to encourage good work and
presentation, for example, stationary.
Book scrutiny.
Learning walks.
Competition opportunities.
Staff to have high expectations of pupil’s in all lessons
where writing may occur.
Presentation
assemblies.
Clear examples of pupil’s presentation skills shown
throughout school.
Promote the use of pens in books when individuals
are ready – not specific to a year group.
Improved handwriting
skills throughout school,
to ensure fluent, cursive
and joined styles are
used following the
Sheffield Scaffold
Handwriting Scheme.
SLT
September
2015 launch
across school
Regular handwriting practise throughout school –
Early bird activity and guided sessions in all classes
from September.
Book scrutiny.
Staff to ensure pupils demonstrate the correct
posture and sitting positions when writing, including
holding the pen/pencil correctly.
Ensure teachers
are adhering to
the writing
criteria.
‘Success for All’
Learning walks.
Cost
Peer practise where older pupils demonstrate the
correct handwriting technique.
Staff to show good handwriting examples in triad
meetings to ensure a consistent approach is taking
place in school.
School to promote transcription as an essential for
writing.
Implement the new
SLT, All
Spelling strategies for
staff
learning within all classes.
September
2015 – Ongoing
Re-launch spelling as a focus within school.
Learning walks.
Implement in all classes including during guided
sessions.
Monitoring and
observations.
Exciting Writing
opportunities in all
classes encouraging the
use of appropriate
sentence composition
and writing with
purpose.
September
2015
All staff to plan for exciting writing to happen at the
end of their topic.
Assessment of
Exciting Writing.
Pupil’s to be given the opportunity to write with
purpose for a range of writing styles including
narrative, non-fiction and poetry.
Triad monitoring
SLT, All
Staff
Learning walks
Staff to provide a ‘Hook’ to inspire pupil’s writing.
Ensure appropriate sentence composition is taking
place through the planning of the exciting writing.
Teachers to begin
implementing BIG
writing within Literacy
Lessons.
Linked with above.
SLT, All
staff
September
2015 – Ongoing
BIG Writing training in Autumn Term for staff.
Triad monitoring
Exploring Ros Wilson’s approach to BIG Writing.
Lesson
observations
Begin implementing within writing lessons.
Re-launch VCOP within school.
‘Success for All’
Resources
for BIG
writing/
VCOP.
Linked with new curriculum.
Promote ‘child voice’ through BIG Writing.
Trial BIG Writing in a
Year 4 and Year 6 class.
Sally W
and Sam R
Pupils to widen their
SLT, All
vocabulary through the
staff
development of
questioning and Language
for Learning.
Autumn 2 –
On-going
Following training in Autumn 2 – 2 classes to begin
trialling the BIG writing programme and scaffolds.
September
2015 – Ongoing
Staff to deepen pupils’ thinking through questioning
skills.
Resources
for BIG
Writing/
VCOP.
Pupil chats
Presentation skills
Pupil’s to be given the opportunity to question more
themselves and develop their language skills.
Staff to demonstrate and model good language in
front of pupils (correcting grammatical errors in
speech).
Writing workshops for parents.
Developing the child’s voice and language through BIG
writing. Developing them to be confident speakers.
Implementation of
effective guided writing
sessions throughout
school.
SLT, All
staff
More peer assessment
opportunities in lessons.
SLT, All
staff
September
2015 – Ongoing
Ensuring all teachers plan effectively.
Observations
Use of the new classroom layout for guided writing
groups – horse-shoe seating plan.
Monitoring of
writing sessions.
September
2015 – Ongoing
To ensure that teacher’s encourage pupils’
(particularly upper school) to evaluate each other’s
work using peer assessment.
Peer assessment
‘Success for All’
Use of visualizer in class to encourage peer
assessment.
Raised attainment of
lower ability, Special
Educational Needs and
Pupil Premium pupils to
attain national
curriculum expectations
in writing.
SLT, All
staff
Effectively working with
parents so that they feel
confident with
supporting their pupils
with writing.
SLT
September
2015 – Ongoing
By scrutinising data (in triad groups), staff are aware
of the gaps in pupil’s understand in writing.
Teachers to adapt their planning to meet the specific
needs of pupils.
SEN pupils to have the opportunity to work
collaboratively with both peers and adults.
September
2015 – Ongoing
Promote writing opportunities with parents/carers.
Writing workshops to support parents with the
writing strategies used in schools.
Teachers to lead parent forums, based around the
implementation of the new curriculum and its
expectations.
Lesson
observations
Book scrutiny
Analysing data
Planning scrutiny
to ensure
inclusion of SEN
and Pupil
Premium.
Monitoring
through parent
questionnaires
and feedback
from and parents
forum.
Check parent questionnaires and review attendance
of parents/carers attending workshops and forums.
Launch for parents for BIG Writing within school
once begun.
Promote International
Literacy Day.
SLT
Tuesday 8th
September
Promote International Literacy Day in school.
Activities and Literacy lessons to be linked with this in
all classes throughout the day.
‘Success for All’
Learning walks
throughout the
day.
Looking specifically at authors and writers around the
world – Link to Global learning, The Gambia and
Ghana.
Continuous development SLT, All
of staff through CPD
staff
courses and training.
September
2015 – Ongoing
Literacy co-ordinators to attend CPD courses to
enhance subject knowledge.
CPD
development
Co-ordinators to feedback to staff to continuously
develop writing within school.
Staff training.
‘Success for All’