This year my school has signed up to be a Storytelling School and take a new approach to it's Writing programme. It is a very oral language based programme which gives students the ideas and helps scaffold them in writing.
It has a very clear structure;
Hear, Map, Step, Speak, Write.
It is embedded into everything we do. Our whole Literacy programme, the Arts and Discovery. As a syndicate we have pooled all our resources together to try and give a full and rich programme which excites our children inspiring them to write.
I have found the change in my Writing programme hard to get my head around. The children do not need to write everyday which has been my biggest adjustment as I have always believed particularly in the lower end of school that children need mileage and to write everyday.
As I still believe young children need to write recounts of their personal experiences I have kept one day a week aside for the children to write about their weekends and other experiences.
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