WRITING

At Newton Farm we endeavour to create a love for English. We want every child to leave Newton Farm with the skills of an excellent writer. We aim to create and inspire writers who:

• Have the ability to write with fluency and have an author’s voice.

• Think about the impact they want their writing to have on the reader and know how they will achieve this.

• Have a sophisticated bank of vocabulary and an excellent knowledge of writing techniques to extend details or description.

• Can structure and organise their writing to suit the genre they are writing in, which includes a variety of sentence structures.

• Display excellent transcription skills that ensure their writing is well presented, punctuated and spelt correctly.

• Re-read, edit and improve their writing so every piece of writing they produce is to the best of their ability and better than the last.

We develop these skills by exposing our children to a range of genres throughout their time at Newton Farm. It is important to note that we not only develop a love of writing in writing sessions, but in all subjects across the curriculum and we expect the highest standards of writing every time a child writes in any subject. 

At Newton Farm we use our bespoke writing cycle to enhance the quality of children’s written work.

Some of the genres the children will experience can be seen in the curriculum overview on the previous page. 

How writing is taught at Newton Farm:

Our curriculum for this subject is based on the Newton Farm School scheme of work.