We strive to develop children's language through providing them with hands on experiences and often use the outdoors as a stimulus. We use high quality, key texts to allow children to access all the skills needed to write well and provide children with purposeful, meaningful writing opportunities.
We have high expectations of presentation and handwriting and teach children cursive handwriting, beginning with pre cursive patterns in EYFS, working towards continuous cursive handwriting in Year 2.
Our learning environments are rich with a variety of text and support children with their writing daily. Shared writing and teacher demonstration of writing is displayed on working walls and washing lines to support children in their learning. We strive to develop confident, independent writers and teach children the skill of proof reading, editing and marking their learning.