At Holme C of of E Primary Academy, we believe all our children (from EYFS to Y6) are entitled to an ambitious, knowledge-rich English curriculum that ensures they will become fluent readers and writers who are able to confidently access the demands of the secondary school curriculum.

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Our Writing Curriculum

At Holme C of E Primary Academy, we aim to:

• Create an engaging curriculum, which inspires a love for writing based on audience and purpose.
• Provide children with the essential tools in spelling, grammar, punctuation and exposure to new vocabulary to support their own independent writing.
• Challenge and encourage children to use their curiosity and imagination to create their own writing.
• Support children to become independent writers with an understanding of the writing process such as planning, editing and redrafting.
• Promote a love of reading high quality texts, with a view of broadening children’s reading experiences of themes, genres and text types, (in support of writing).
• Daily SPAG sessions with 3-4 questions aimed at supporting recall of SPAG facts learnt in each year group.
• Use of the ‘Debbie Hepplewhite approach’ to handwriting. This begins in EYFS for non-cursive and moves to cursive handwriting in Year 2.  From KS2, children are able to work towards achieving their pen license.
• Continuity across the school with the use of the Sounds Write spelling programme in KS2, to keep the learning of spelling consistent throughout both Key Stages.

Pupils at Holme C of E Academy will leave Year 6:

• Children will be able to independently demonstrate their knowledge of spelling, grammar and punctuation through independent writing tasks.
• Write effectively for a range of purposes and audiences, selecting language that shows good awareness of the reader (e.g. the use of the first person in a diary; direct address in instructions and persuasive writing)
• In narratives, describe settings, characters and atmosphere
• Integrate dialogue in narratives to convey character and advance the action
• Select vocabulary and grammatical structures that reflect what the writing requires, doing this mostly appropriately (e.g. using contracted forms in dialogues in narrative; using passive verbs to affect how information is presented; using modal verbs to suggest degrees of possibility)
• Use a range of devices to build cohesion (e.g. conjunctions, adverbials of time and place, pronouns, synonyms) within and across paragraphs
• Use verb tenses consistently and correctly throughout their writing
• Use the range of punctuation taught at key stage 2 mostly correctly (e.g. inverted commas and other punctuation to indicate direct speech)
• Spell correctly most words from the year 5 / year 6 spelling list, and use a dictionary to check the spelling of uncommon or more ambitious vocabulary
• Maintain legibility in joined handwriting when writing at speed