‘Every child an author’ Here at Gosford Park, writing is an integral part of our curriculum. Children from Nursery to Year 6 are provided with many opportunities to practise and apply their writing skills across the curriculum. We believe that all of our pupils have the right to be able to express themselves, their knowledge, ideas, imaginations and their emotions creatively and confidently through their writing. In order to help them achieve this, we aim for our children to acquire a wide, robust vocabulary, accomplished through good quality teaching and exploring texts which motivate and inspire. We want our pupils to use vocabulary precisely and effectively in order to improve all areas of their communication; listening, speaking, reading and writing. We want our learners to write accurately and coherently, therefore over their time with us, they will gain a sound understanding of grammar and be able to spell new words by effectively applying the spelling patterns and rules they will have learnt across the primary years.
By immersing our children in a range of high quality texts that make up our Reading Spines, we want our pupils to use their experiences to write in a range of styles and genres, for a range of different audiences, contexts and purposes, adapting their language and style skilfully to achieve this. Our intention is to foster our children’s interest in writing in order to create good writers who can re-read, edit and refine their writing during and after the writing process, allowing them to take important ownership of areas requiring improvement.
At Gosford Park, we set high expectations to encourage all of our children to take great pride in the presentation of their work, aiding them to develop a fluent, cursive handwriting style by the time they move to secondary school. Most importantly, we want all children at Gosford Park to enjoy writing and leave us with the knowledge and belief that they are a competent, engaging writer as we believe that every child is an author.
